If you are afraid of death, you seek immortality; if you gain immortality, you will be greedy and immortal; if you are immortal, you will become an immortal.
During the Yuanhe period, Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Chun "loved gods and sought alchemists". In order to pursue the elixir of immortality, he went to the absurd point of appointing an alchemist as the governor of Taizhou.
The emperor behaved like this, and followed the example of others. He sought immortality, took medicine, and pursued immortality. This became a common custom from the emperor to the ministers.
The poet Li Changji once wrote a poem to satirize this matter.
"Feiguang Feiguang, please give me a glass of wine."
I don't know that the blue sky is high and the yellow earth is thick.
Only the cold moon and the warm sun come to fry people's lives.
If you eat bears, you will be fat; if you eat frogs, you will be thin.
Where is the Lord God? Is Taiyian there?
There is a tree in the east of the sky, with a dragon holding a candle underneath.
I will cut off the dragon's feet and chew its flesh so that it cannot return to the court and cannot lie down at night.
Naturally, the old will never die, and the young will never cry.
Why take gold and swallow white jade?
Who is like Mr. Ren, riding a green donkey in the clouds?
Liu Che's mausoleum is full of stagnant bones, and Ying Zhengzi's coffin is full of abalone.
Asking for advice and skills, asking for a copper coin
Seeking life and death, seeking to become a god
Just ask for it to the end, is what you get really what you want?
It's too late to regret.
Intention: Desire is vain
