Since the middle 1990 s, Taoism culture suddenly became a popular Chinese literature (especially Internet novel) the performance of the important content.This article tried to this kind of cultural phenomenon of the main performance and its inner social cultural contributor to discuss slightly.

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For most of the 20th century, the Taoist theories and China's elite literature creation basic is in a state of isolation, and creation of popular literature also shows a tendency of alienation."May 4th" movement of some enlightenment thinkers point directly contributed to this situation.

This kind of situation into some changes happened after the mid - 1990 - s.When the network novel, became main popular literature, Taoist culture became popular a kind of mainstream literature ideological content.

At the current starting point - the largest original network literature website Chinese website, for example, (1) its popular novels out "XianXia", "fantasy" and "fantasy", "science", "city", "history" the limited number of types."XianXia class" novels and Taoism culture relations close self-evident, there are many works in other novel type inadvertently quoted Taoist cultural elements as the pillar to the plot of the novel framework, like the "fantasy" banner of the anniversary years, hit the "fantasy" banner of proud makes ShiLu, play the "science" banner of "division and the legend", hit the "urban" banner of the day with, hit the "history" banner of grains strike renewed, biography of the Chinese nation, "looking back east gu" and so on are the representative works.

Taoist material's works are numerous, with a large audience, this is only one aspect of the problem.More importantly, we can find in these works, many popular writers are keen to explore some essential problems in Taoism as a religion.They tried to modern cultural consciousness, combined with other religious theology of research results, to interpret the connotation of Taoism culture.Many creators clearly expressed this mindset: to Taoism as the ontology/standard, build a Chinese beyond theory., they hope, in the current such an era, such a kind of beyond the concept to soothe the soul of modern people pain, become the root of their spiritual lives.

These works of art achievements have high and low points, the understanding of Taoism culture, understanding also has fine coarse, but summarized, their performance of Taoism culture is mostly concentrated in the Taoist god spectrum, Taoist beliefs, Taoism theory of your life, spell and so on several issues.Limited space, we mainly discuss the popular novels of the performance of the Taoist theory of your life, spell, this aspect of the subject can reflect Taoism is the unique cultural value.

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Compared with other religious doctrines, Taoism abnormal unique thoughts to your life.

Most of the religious theory in the design beyond the ultimate ideal, all the life forms of physical existence and reality as a link to be denied.So-called beyond those that go beyond this world and real meaning.The Taoism is not.It is beyond the ultimate ideal, to transcend the limitations of general physical reality, so as to achieve "immortality".Man's body, in this not denied, but human source of hope for salvation.Mankind will die, on the one hand, because there is no correct faith, on the other hand, it is because there is no master the correct physical training techniques (and door arcane spells).And then a seems to be more absolute significance.Most Taoist sects will not think pure belief "three sweeping statue of deliverance" can guarantee believers immortality, emphasize to honour its branches special body refinement, and argues that the practice of three sweeping statue of the embodiment of the nature is his faith, and the refinement of flesh more essentially dispel the lethal factor in the body, make people get the ultimate salvation.

Of the tribe of the children of Taoist theory of your life is various, here we only talk about three main: providing says, three resin, Dan tao theory.

In the vast majority of the Taoism sects, "providing" is a fundamental practice kung fu.Taoism stresses that can be make self practice (this self is not self consciousness of modern philosophy, it inevitably contains a unique for individuals at the same time the only physical control and using) with tao, to obtain the ultimate liberation.But obviously, self/individual not destined to heaven to fusion, in the process of practice, there are many external temptation, they make people abandon the ultimate pursuit of tao and addicted to the enjoyment of these accessible but death.The temptation of this among them, the feeling is one of the most powerful external temptation.For the average person, with his life, moving with his life, and the body and mood seems to be an indivisible whole.But in the end, regardless of the emotion, mood, or desire and so on, as long as it is, were created by external stimuli, people can not be free to control it, it is enough to prove that the individual will not be enough to grasp the fundamental.Of course, the so-called "forgetful" is a kind of mysterious realm, it is not rude, affection, ruthless.The so-called "forget", sometimes is a higher level of "yes", just as people never deliberately to remember to breathe, but he has never been in breathing.Therefore, how to understand "forget", how to do "forget", but not the foundational practice kung fu, at the same time direct is an ultimate way of relief.So, the ancient Chinese who have regrets, but can be played on too.

Many novelists tried to according to the Taoist "forgetful" to construct the basic framework of world view in the novel text."Purple Luo Xia wind", "Yin operator the alchemist" and other works describing more representative.Novel wind purple Luo Xia borrow books in the story of the wind wandering monks wrote: "the general order of desires, all is the obstacle, because these desires, lustful kill good wealth of the mind, is not entirely their own, and the god of heaven, or by foreign monty's knowledge, the influence of so would reverse charms, and even had a wise man, in the key, just malfeasance, suicide.But for the wind wandering, all of the mind into a whole, although dare not say absolute control, however, there is a god that abnormal fluctuations, immediately can be suppressed and destroyed, foreign gods, cannot affect his inner psychological activities....As long as no more, of course, there is no gap....Heaven goes to all things to live.There is absolutely no the slightest mercy will."2.

"Three body" is an important concept of Taoist theory of your life.Taoism is a popular saying: "for three resin was not cut, six gas not swallow, empty with kung fu thousand years."That is to say if you can't remove the body of three dead god, I can't help to spend how much.

What are the three dead god?Taoist internal strife.(" tree ", "taiping jing Taoist classics such as the explanation for the there is different.)Many popular fiction writers also according to your own understanding of what is meant by "three body", what is the "three body" tao made their own interpretation.Such as the back closure of god I am ShenGongBao protagonist Lu Fei line on the lesson from earth sun there is a paragraph: "today is for no reason you handle this way, want to come and the cicadas some cat, but I urge you, it would produce cultivation of mind here, as soon as possible and to make up six flower lotus, three resin for the chop, read, went to three achievements not saints.But you must keep in mind, heart a door, is the most dangerous, if the mind, even if you have borne addition, but also useless, remember that."3.

So cut three resin was turned into a kind of mind cultivation: "cut has three resin, no heart no nausea and no heart."(4) and the practice in the novel became the key word: "three flowers gather a resin, cut two resin word mixed yuan, cut three saints, resin achievement of mind, very important."5.

Novel for three resin significantly affected by the buddhist doctrine, the explanation of some difference with the traditional theory of Taoism three resin.However, can also find that, the author of three resin, have some understanding of Taoism, and try to associate it with the ultimate beyond form some kind of logical connection.This kind of ideological understanding in traditional public art is rare.

Dan tao theory is one of the cornerstone of Taoist theory of your life.The formation of Dan tao says, clearly in the theory of keeping in good health and harmony view as the ideological basis.But the idea of "Dan", is the Taoist thinkers of the great inventions.Zhang Guangbao think: "Taoism is based on the pre-qin Taoist...Thought, Dan way of its inside and outside.They little thought of the universe based on the human body, through the entire whole universe or incorporated into Dan ding (Dan), or (Dan) into the human body.Its specific reasoning methods, diaphragmatic above as day Dan tao is the human body, diaphragm below take like (quanzhen daoism's point of view), to a five - five elements, qi - Yin and Yang;Dan way above the tripod as day, outside the tripod like, open variety to like gossip, mercury to lead effectively than Yin and Yang two gas.They passed in Dan ding or body reverse mimic the tao gave birth to the whole evolution process of all things, eventually earned a special form of matter, Dan, and Dan to implement this condenses the essence of the universe and body fit."6.

Popular writers for the so-called Dan tao theory, of course, is not so clear understanding, but according to their own this part in the collective unconscious of Taoism culture content to recall, they are very actively in his works reveal that Dan tao concept.They said to Dan, the ultimate effect of memory especially deep.They seem to be the default in the deep of the subconscious of the idea that the body can form a kind of based on the physical and beyond the physical "forms of special material, Dan, and with the Dan to condense the essence of the universe and body fit".In the current public works, every personal practice topic's work, whether east sendoh or western magical, martial art or science class body modification, most of the work will be Dan tao says, especially internal Dan before as a self-evident.

But it should be pointed out that, popular writers for the use of Dan tao theory is generally stays on the level of the unconscious to borrow.For Dan tao what is, how to through Dan idea a unique way of transcendence, the vast majority of the popular writers and no further thinking their imagination and enthusiasm.

Important theory of Taoist theory of your life, also includes the harmony theory, theory of yuan Qi, yuan god theory and so on.These, in the current public works are also easy to see, limited to space, we not enumerated one by one here.