Zhang Jiao What exactly is Taiping Yaoshu talking about?

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Uprising, the legendary leader of the Julu County Uprising, Zhang Jiao, went into the mountains to collect medicine, met the "Nanhua Old Immortal", and gave him the "Taiping Technique", so he began to "scatter the Fu Shui" to chant the mantra to cure the disease, and also "call the wind and call the rain", calling himself "Taiping Dao people", "great sages and good teachers", creating Taiping Dao, also known as "Huang Lao Dao", and the believers developed into hundreds of thousands of people. Taking advantage of the prevailing social atmosphere of superstition in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he put forward the words of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", and at the same time, Zhang Xiu also led the people to revolt.

Zhang Jiao, the leader of the peasant rebel army "Yellow Turban Army" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of Taiping Dao. The so-called Taiping Dao is a branch of Taoism, Zhang Jiao got a religious secret book called "Taiping Qing Lingshu" (i.e. "Taiping Sutra") from the Taoist priest Yu Ji, pondered it himself, and tinkered with a new variety with exclusive intellectual property rights - Taiping Dao.

The image of a Taoist priest. Because Taoism pursues self-cultivation and immortality, medicine is a compulsory course for Taoist priests. In addition, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many years of famine and social contradictions, and ordinary people could easily accept the utopian world of no exploitation and oppression depicted by Zhang Jiao, no hunger, cold and disease, no fraud and theft, and everyone was free and happy.

The ancients may have been ignorant because of the limitations of their living conditions, but it does not mean that they are all mentally retarded, since hundreds of thousands of people support it, there must be its reasonableness, but after the failure of the Yellow Turban Army uprising, the imperial court labeled the Taiping Sect as a cult. In addition, there may indeed be some gods mixed in, and the discipline of the Yellow Turban Army may not be so strict, resulting in future generations not having a high evaluation of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao.

Troops of the Yellow Turbans.

The Taiping Sect founded by Zhang Jiao may not be in line with the mainstream values at that time, and the capable people with lofty ideals are more in the pursuit of the king and worship the superior, rather than the "to the peace" where everyone is equal, especially through the charm of spiritual water in order to popularize its values more quickly The way of the Taiping Dao is covered with a layer of cult color, even if the Taiping Dao is good, the method is not used properly, it will not be able to achieve miraculous results.

Fu Shui's treatment of diseases is obviously deceiving people, and this Zhang Jiao uses this to deceive the people with his little medical skills.

The ancients believed in ghosts and gods, and because of this, Zhang Jiao used the hearts of the people to make people look like they did have miraculous effects, but this was all a trick to deceive people, in order to win the support of others.

The ancients believed in gods and ghosts, and Zhang Jiao used this to say that Taiping Dao relied on Fu Shui to heal and save people, which was completely deceiving the people.

It really has an effect, but it's not the effect of Fu Shui, it's that he really knows a little bit of medical skills, and he just wants to use this propaganda to attract the congregation.

Whether in ancient or modern times, from our eyes, it feels like it is deceiving people, and if it is not used properly, it will also produce the color of a cult.

It is a trick to deceive people, in order to win the support of others, he uses this way to deceive others, plus the ancients have little knowledge.

Nonsense is nonsense, and a cult is a cult, but it is just relying on the power of religion to seize the opportunity to seize power. You believe that drawing talismans to exorcise ghosts can cure diseases, so go down to accompany General Tiangong.

The answer is: Zhang Jiao Taiping Dao has the element of pretending to be a god and playing ghosts, but gathering the power of the public and helping the poor is where the real power lies.

How could Fu Shui save people, this is clearly Zhang Jiao and others harming the people for their own conspiracy.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the chaos of the imperial court and local government decrees, the peasants lived in poverty. In view of this, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao brothers were in Wei County, using spells and spells to heal people everywhere, and many sick people drank his talisman water, and they were cured without medicine, and Zhang Jiao was regarded as a living immortal by the people, and Zhang Jiao sent eight envoys to preach abroad. As a result, more and more believers were pursued, even as high as hundreds of thousands, covering the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan, accounting for almost three-quarters of the country at that time.

In order to defect to Zhangjiao, many people did not hesitate to sell their property, traveled thousands of miles, scrambled to be the first, and the followers were crowded to the brim, and it is said that more than 10,000 people were trampled to death halfway.

Zhang Jiao has been active in the folk for more than 10 years.

3. 400,000 people joined, Zhang Jiao saw that there were more and more believers, so he created "Huang Tian Taiping", also known as "Taiping Dao" to manage believers, and called himself "Great Sage and Good Teacher", he divided his sphere of influence into 36 districts, called "Fang", more than 10,000 people in Dafang, 6 or 7,000 people in Xiaofang, each party pushed a leader, all controlled by Zhang Jiao, and the voice of rebellion against the Han family was flourishing, but there were many Haoqiang, **, eunuchs, etc., so the Han family did not pay much attention.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao shook the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which directly led to the division of warlords in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then evolved into a three-legged situation. At the same time, it was also the first peasant uprising led by religion in the history of our country, which has far-reaching historical significance; It also laid the historical pattern for the spread and development of Taoism in the lower strata of society in the future.