On the 15th day of the first lunar month, congratulations to Shangyuan for blessings days Ziwei Emperor Christmas.
Shangyuan blessed Tianguan Ziwei Emperor is the Tianguan in Taoist Three Officials Emperor . The Three Officials Emperor is also called "Sanyuan Emperor" and "Sanguan Emperor Emperor", and the people affectionately call it the Three Officials Master, the Three Realms Duke, etc. The gods in Taoism control the three realms of heaven, earth and water are the emperor Ziwei, the emperor of the blessing of the heaven, the emperor of the Zhongyuan, the emperor of the earth, the emperor of the earth, and the emperor of the Xiayuan Jiehe water, and the emperor of the cave Yin, also known as the heaven, earth and water. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Christmas of Emperor Tianguan.
The origin of the Three Officials Emperor is very ancient. It inherited the awe and worship of ancient ancestors for natural things closely related to social life such as heaven, earth, water. Taoism believes that there are three officials of the three realms of heaven, earth, water, and water palace. The three emperors divide the labor and control the creatures of the three realms, and humans are naturally no exception. Therefore, the three emperors see what people do in the three realms, and the three emperors see it. Right and wrong, good and evil are clear in their hearts. The saying goes:
North Pole Xuanqiu, Ziwei Emperor Court. Taishan Daiyue, the water country is cold and cold. The three realms are bounded and dominate all spirits. Sanyuan school registration, good and evil are divided.
Taoism has always valued life, so the Three Officials Emperors are both clear about good and evil, and are very compassionate; they not only give evil people the opportunity to repent and make up for their past, but also bring blessings to the living beings and save them from suffering. Therefore, people summarized the keywords of the three officials' beliefs: Heavenly Officials Blessings , Earthly Officials Imprisoned the crimes, and Water Officials Relieve the Disaster, and briefly pointed out the division of labor among the three gods. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also a good day for Heavenly Officials to bless.
The faith of the three officials played a very important role in the early days of Taoist organizations. According to historical records, Zhang Luxiong, the grandson of the Zutian Shizhan, was in Hanzhong. He cured the believers' illness and prayed to the Three Officials Emperors by the patient's repentance and praying to the Three Officials, so as to persuade the people to get rid of evil and good, and to transform the worldly style. At the same time, he also effectively united the people's hearts. Let’s talk about the specific operation method below:
Please pray, write the patient’s name, and the meaning of persuading sin. Make three connections, one goes up the sky, and one goes up the mountain; one is buried in the land; the other is sinking water. It is called the handwritten letter of the three officials.
The handwritten book of the Three Officials is a written confession submitted by the Taoist gang to the Emperor of the Three Officials. It is presented to the Emperor of the Three Officials through a specific religious method of burying the mountain, burying the ground, and sinking into the water. It is hoped that the Three Officials who received the confession can exempt the patients from disasters and forgive sins and be blessed.
Taoism believes that the Three Officials will come to the world on the third day to examine the right and wrong of people, so I wrote to the Three Officials on the third day to pray for blessings and repent sins and easily received a response, and cured diseases that are difficult to cure for a long time. The three-year day mentioned here is the Three-year Day, which is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Heavenly Official, the fifteenth day of the Earthly Official, and the fifteenth day of the Water Official.
After the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Taoist beliefs extended to the upper class society, and the faith of the Three Officials also appeared in new and gorgeous forms. Living in Liu Song , Lu Xiujing Tianshi said: "Use three golden dragons and golden buttons to throw them into mountains, waters and soil to make the trust of learning immortals. If you do not vote for these three officials, you will be detained by people's lives and books, and ask for help but not be able to obtain them." This means that if you want to learn immortals, you must first put out tokens such as golden dragons and golden buttons to "sign contracts" with the three officials, otherwise you will not be able to enter the "immortal book".
The golden dragon and golden button seem to be slightly far from the simple "handwritten book", but what you need to see is that the core of the key three officials here is in line with each other. In the Tang Dynasty, the Li Tang royal family regarded themselves as the descendants of Laojun and worshipped Taoism. On the third day of the year, it became a Taoist ritual activity that the emperors of the Tang Dynasty loved. According to incomplete statistics, nearly thirty times were held in the more than a hundred years from the Tang Dynasty Gaozong to the Daizong.
As a national ritual, the dragon-sponsored activity has two main purposes: one is to pray for the country and the other is to pray for the traditional repentance of sins with the object of individuals, but the individual level here has been raised to become the emperor.
The main token of the emperor's dragon casting is the golden silhouette. The imperial silhouette used to casting the dragon is very particular. According to reports, the dragon casting silhouette is one foot and two inches long, symbolizing twelve hours; two inches wide, symbolizing twenty-four hours; two inches thick, symbolizing the two qualities of the universe... When casting the silhouette, use gold wire to entangle the golden buttons, jade bi, and golden dragon on the silhouette.The golden dragon is a dragon-shaped shape made of gold, because the dragon can ride on clouds, control yin and yang, and ascend to heaven and earth. During the ceremony, the golden dragon riding symbolizes the simple text to reach the heavenly palace.
In fact, not only was the Tang emperor keen on the dragon's enrollment activity, but the span of the ceremony lasted for thousands of years: it lasted from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty; among them, the Taoist Three Officials' beliefs are also reflected in the female emperor Wu Zetian , who was known for worshiping Buddhism and replacing the Li Tang emperor's "hard core" belief. In 1982, a national treasure-level "physical evidence" appeared in Junjifeng, , Songshan, . It was Emperor Wu Zetian's Dragon-to-Go Jinjian, and it is also the only movable cultural relic found related to her. The content engraved on this golden slip is exactly the same as the writing purpose of the original third official handwritten book:
The above statement: Wu Zhao, the lord of the Great Zhou Kingdom, enjoys the true Taoism and is immortal. He is very proud to go to the high mountain gate of Songshan, Zhongyue to throw the golden slip, begging the three officials and nine palaces to remove Wu Zhao's crimes. On the seventh day of Jiashen month of the seventh month of the Gengzi period of Tai Sui, the young envoy Hu Zhao bowed his head and bowed to him again.
The ancient Chinese Three Officials Emperors had a very deep mass base from the emperor to the people. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not hold the dragon-submission ceremony, but according to the Qing people's experiences and records, every Three Yuan Festival, whether the officials or ordinary people went to the palaces that worshipped the Three Officials Emperors to burn incense and pray for blessings. The scene was bustling and lively.
Mr. Guangcheng Du Guangting said: "Advocate the blessing of sins and blessings, that is, the three officials of heaven, earth and water, which are actually in charge of the three Yuans. People's life, death, longevity, good and bad, are all related to the good and bad of sins." The belief in the three officials of Taoism lasted for thousands of years. In the eyes of believers, the three officials who master the good and bad luck of life and death of the three realms are not only the messenger of justice, but also the kind and kind god of blessings who give people happiness, as sang in the scriptures:
The emperor of the Three Officials, the true immortal of prolonging life and longing, rode a phoenix and crossed a crane to the sutra to give blessings and forgive sins; the barefoot immortal, brings blessings to the world!
