Zhang Sanfeng, a Wudang alchemist, combined the principles of the Eight Diagrams and the Five Elements, and the Tai Chi diagram, and skillfully integrated the martial arts of using softness to overcome hardness, aiming to achieve the Taoist inner alchemy of longevity and longevity, and created Tai Chi. He also wrote "Zhang Sanfeng's Secret of Tai Chi Alchemy", which was included in the Taoist classics and is truly a treasure handed down from generation to generation. Its essence lies in the "Tai Chi Boxing Theory", "Tai Chi Boxing Classics", "The Theory of Concentrating the Spirit and Gathering Qi to Learn Tai Chi", "Tai Chi Boxing Song", "Tai Chi Boxing Thirteen Postures of Tai Chi Boxing" and "Tai Chi Boxing Seventy-two Postures", which contain 105 line drawings of Zhang Sanfeng's Tai Chi. The core of this is "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health Tai Chi". After hundreds of years, due to many reasons, especially for a long period of time in the last century, Taoist culture has been distorted, neglected, and even denied. Tai Chi, which was originally rooted in the fertile soil of the Chinese nation's 5,000-year-old civilization, has the Taoist concept of cultivating both the body and mind, and has profound cultural connotations. It is in line with human health science. Today, it has a tendency to be confused with general sports or martial arts, and has lost the true meaning of Taoist Tai Chi's inner alchemy health-preserving technique. Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health-Preserving Tai Chi is in great danger of being lost and has indeed become an endangered culture. In order to save our nation's precious cultural heritage, the applicant has spent more than 20 years exploring and seeking the truth, and has verified a number of Taoist classics. Now, the "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health-Preserving Tai Chi" with ideal medical and fitness effects will be discovered and displayed, and it will be applied to UNESCO for national cultural heritage, so that it can be donated to today's society, so that hundreds of millions of Tai Chi enthusiasts around the world can recognize the true face of Tai Chi, and Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health-Preserving Tai Chi will be immersed in the current popular Tai Chi postures, so as to improve the fitness taste, and then expand the Tai Chi crowd, with the Taoist health-preserving culture benefiting people of all ethnic groups in the world as the main purpose. The "Daoism Dictionary" states: "Heming Mountain: a famous Taoist mountain and holy place. It is located in Zhang Sanfeng Village, Heming Mountain, Dayi County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is also called Huming Mountain. It is a southern branch peak of the Qingcheng area on the eastern foot of the Qionglai Mountains, with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters. It is surrounded by mountains on the east, west, south and north sides, and faces the Chengdu Plain to the east. The mountain is majestic, covered with pine trees and dense cypresses, and surrounded by two streams. It looks like a black crane spreading its wings and about to fly, hence the name. According to historical records: During the reign of Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling was a guest in Shu, so he studied Taoism in Heming Mountain, wrote 24 Taoist books, and founded the Five Pecks of Rice Sect in the mountains. From then on, Heming Mountain became a Taoist holy place." The Taoist temples in Heming Mountain were first built during the Han and Jin Dynasties, rebuilt in the Song Dynasty, and successively expanded and repaired in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the temples still exist today. There is a single-hole stone arch bridge on the left at the entrance to the mountain, named Yingxian Bridge. On the bridge, you can see a huge square stone standing in the river, called "Crane Holding Red Book". The green trees on both sides of the river are very deep. After crossing Yingxian Bridge, there is a Sanguan Temple at the foot of the mountain. After crossing Songxian Bridge, there is a huge stele on the side of the road, engraved with three big characters "First Mountain", which was written by Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty. Wenchang Palace, Daihe Pavilion, Tinghe Pavilion, Laojun Hall and Yingxian Pavilion are built in the temple. Zhang Sanfeng came to Heming Mountain from Jintai Temple in Baoji via Qingyang Palace in Chengdu in the early Ming Dynasty. Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to invite him back to the court many times, but Sanfeng did not want to be an official, so he avoided them all. He died at the age of 169 in Yingxian Pavilion. In front of the pavilion, there is an eight-sided pavilion where Sanfeng Zushi practiced Yi. Next to the pavilion, there are several imperial edicts of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty welcoming Sanfeng Zhenren. Chengdu Enwei Group invested hundreds of millions of yuan to develop Heming Mountain, the holy city of Taoism, on the basis of the original Taoist temple, and built Heming Mountain into an educational base for Taoist health culture. It is about to establish the "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health Tai Chi Training Institute in the Holy City of Taoism", which is 57 kilometers away from Chengdu. It has convenient transportation, beautiful scenery, fresh air, special drinking water, and pleasant climate. Zhang Sanfeng's boxing manual says: "The meaning of the Tai Chi diagram is the mutual generation of yin and yang, the combination of hardness and softness, and the ever-changing Tai Chi boxing. This is where Tai Chi comes from. Pushing hands is the diagram of Tai Chi." Therefore, the boxing theory and boxing of Zhang Sanfeng's Tai Chi boxing come from the meaning of the Tai Chi diagram, and the Tai Chi totem is the main element. Every move and form must show the shape of the Tai Chi diagram. This is a touchstone for testing the sincerity of Tai Chi boxing. In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Boduan went to Chengdu in Sichuan and worshipped Liu Haichan, a disciple of Lu Dongbin, as his teacher and gained the Tao. He wrote "Wu Zhen Pian" and was regarded as the "King of Inner Alchemy" in history. Its connotation is to use the human body as a furnace, and the "essence, qi, and spirit" in the human body as medicine. The longevity obtained inside the human body is the core of Zhang Sanfeng's Taoist health-preserving Tai Chi. Zhang Sanfeng gave the essence of Taoism to Tai Chi skills. At the age of 136, he entered Heming Mountain in the suburbs of Chengdu. He once wrote a seven-character poem: "Buying wine from Linqiong and entering Cuiwei, the cliff-crossing guest returns with white clouds, and wandering in the 24 immortal caves, the stone crane happily whistles and flies." This shows that the founder of Sanfeng, who was over 130 years old, went down the mountain from Tiangu Cave, which was 1,000 meters above sea level, and then climbed the mountains to Qionglai, which was 100 miles away, to buy wine and return. He went into the mountains alone, crossed cliffs, and climbed high peaks. It can be seen that the "inner elixir" plays a role in fitness and strengthening the body. Based on this, it can be inferred that after the founder was 150 years old, he made the Tai Chi boxing frame he created more perfect, and several classic Tai Chi classics and theories were written here, which are treasures presented to future generations. The founder passed away at the age of 169 in Heming Mountain. Now there is a "Sanfeng cypress" planted by himself, with a chest circumference of 152 cm, verdant and tall, towering to the sky. The "Sansheng Palace" of the Taoist temple on Heming Mountain enshrines the golden statue of the founder Zhang Sanfeng for people to admire. It can be seen that the founder founded Tai Chi in Wudang Mountain and Tai Chi originated in Heming Mountain. Therefore, Heming Mountain should be called a "Tai Chi resort". It is in line with the natural situation, geographical advantages and human harmony to establish the "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health Tai Chi" teaching and training center here. The core content of "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health Tai Chi" is "alchemy". In ancient times, Taoist alchemy was divided into "external alchemy" and "internal alchemy". External alchemists put "lead and mercury" minerals in the alchemy furnace and burned them into pills for oral administration in the hope of longevity, but many people were poisoned as a result. Later, the famous Tang Dynasty Taoist Han Zhongli and his apprentice Lü Dongbin laid the theoretical foundation of "Inner Alchemy". The famous Song Dynasty Taoist Zhang Boduan wrote the masterpiece "Wu Zhen Pian" and regarded it as the "King of Inner Alchemy". Zhang Sanfeng's Taoist health-preserving Tai Chi boxing technique uses the human body as a furnace, "essence and qi" as medicine, "spirit" as the fire, and the "Laogong acupoints" on the palms and the "Shixuan acupoints" on the ten fingertips as guides to create "Inner Alchemy" in the Tai Chi boxing frame, so that it condenses into "Dan". There have been many Taoists who practiced Inner Alchemy in the past dynasties, and the elderly have lived long lives. After long-term practice, they can indeed achieve the miraculous effect of longevity and longevity. Therefore, the theory of Inner Alchemy has become the core content of Taoism and Taoist culture, and its dissemination has become an important symbol of the development of Taoism. The so-called "essence, qi, and spirit" are located in the "lower dantian" of the "qihai point" below the navel of the human body to store "essence"; the "middle dantian" of the "tanzhong point" located at the middle point between the two mastoid processes to store "qi"; the "upper dantian" of the "yintang point" located at the middle point between the two eyebrows to store "spirit". The "dantian" is the medicine. The "dantian" actually refers to the place where the elixir is refined. "Wuzhen Pian" says: "If there is no true seed in the cauldron, it is like boiling water and fire in an empty pot." The "cauldron" refers to the human body as a furnace. The "true seed" is the essence, qi, and spirit in the human body. The warning sentence in the "Dan Jing" refers to: If there is no essence, qi, and spirit as medicine in the human body, it is like boiling water in a pottery pot with fire. According to modern scientific measurements, "essence" is the nucleus and various basic particles that carry information about life activities in the human body, which constitute the basic substances of the human body and maintain life activities; "qi" is the electricity generated by the movement of plasma and ions, so there is electricity in qi and qi in electricity; "shen" has quantum force fields of strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force, gravity, nuclear force field, and super quantum unified force field. In essence, "essence" is the root, "qi" is the power, and "shen" is the dominant force. "Essence, qi, and spirit" actually synthesize the energy flow that the human body depends on for survival. If the energy flow of the human body is normal, the human body is in a healthy state; if the energy flow of the human body is poor, the human body is in a pathological state; if the energy flow of the human body stops, life will no longer exist. In Zhang Sanfeng's Taoist health-preserving Tai Chi, the "Laogong acupoint" and "Shixuan acupoint" on both hands are the gateways for releasing internal qi and collecting external qi. By means of this technique of "gathering qi" and "combining qi" in the "dantian", the excess can be released and the deficiency can be supplemented, so as to achieve the effect of balancing yin and yang, harmonizing qi and blood, and unblocking meridians in the human body. Driven by the will and qi, the energy flow of the human body is integrated into the best state of integration with heaven and earth. As Lü Dongbin said in the "Complete Tang Poems": "Resting the essence and qi nourishes the spirit, and the essence nourishes the dantian and the qi nourishes the body. If someone learns this technique, he will be immortal." Today, there are still hundreds of millions of people in the world who practice Tai Chi all year round. In order to correct the source and return to the original, the Tai Chi popular all over the world is injected with Zhang Sanfeng's Taoist health-preserving Tai Chi alchemy, and the "Zhang Sanfeng Taoist Health-preserving Tai Chi" teaching and training institute is established to provide a platform for Tai Chi enthusiasts from all over the world to exchange academic knowledge, exchange skills, and observe medical and fitness effects of Tai Chi, which is a great achievement for improving fitness taste, improving the quality of life of the world, and building a harmonious society for the benefit of mankind. Information source: Chengdu Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Chengdu Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center