Zhou Ziran
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·2022-08-20 23:32:13
Zhou Ziran is from Jintai, Shaanxi Province. A prominent scholar of Wudang in the early Ming Dynasty. According to the "Great Mountain Taihe Mountain Annals" of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Ziran became a monk of the Quanzhen Sect at a young age. After growing up, he traveled far and wide, using Taoism to transform the common people and also treating the sufferings of the common folk with medicine. In the early years of the Hongwu reign, he returned to the Wulong Palace on Wudang Mountain (now the area of Haokou, ten li west of Wudang Mountain Town, where the ruins still exist). He continued to help the people from all directions with his Taoist teachings and medical skills, and was deeply respected by the people. He had been practicing Taoism in Wudang for many years. Even in his seventies or eighties, he still had a youthful face and moved and behaved with ease and composure. One day later, he handed over all the Taoist arts and secret medical recipes he had kept to his disciples and said, "I will go with the will of heaven." The next day, after taking a bath and changing clothes, he passed away. His crown and sword were buried in Taoyuan Cave.