Who can introduce He Xiangu to me?

He Xiangu is the only female among the Eight Immortals who has been handed down from generation to generation. In the old society, the Han nationality and some ethnic minorities generally believed in her. In addition to the statue of the Eight Immortals Palace in Xi 'an, it enjoys incense in Mount Tai and Wang Mu Pond. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, there have been many records about her deeds, second only to Lv Dongbin among the Eight Immortals. However, the origin of this fairy, which is very humanized in the legend of the Eight Immortals, is still an unsolved problem. According to "He Xiangu's Birthday", which still has temple fairs in modern times, Zengcheng's birthday is the seventh day of March in the summer calendar, while Xi 'an Baxian Palace's birthday is the ninth day of April. The difference of one month before and after is because the historical files are different. He Xiangu was the daughter of Hetai, Zengcheng County, Guangzhou, during the Tang and Wu Zetian Dynasties, according to Luo Fuzhi's Fairy Mirror of Past Dynasties. At the age of thirteen, she went into the mountains to collect tea and met a Taoist priest. Taoist gave her a peach, and since then she has never been hungry or thirsty, and she knows how to stop complaining. Later, she went to Tang Zhongzong, the Year of the Loong (707-7 10) and became immortal during the day. In today's Zengcheng County, Guangzhou, the legend about He Xiangu is more specific, with "physical proof": He Xiangu's real name is He Xiugu, a native of Xingui Township, Xiao Lou District, Zengcheng County, and Wu Zetian was born on the seventh day of March in the Tang Dynasty. His father He Tai makes tofu for a living. Xiugu was very clever since she was a child. At the age of fourteen, she was lucky enough to come to Lv Dongbin. Lu gave her some mica films, through which she could know the fate of the world and often visited the immortals in Luofu Mountain. After her parents found a husband's family named Feng for her, Xiugu refused to marry. On the eighth day of August in Zhongzong Jinglong, she threw herself into the well. Only one shoe was worn when throwing the well, and the other shoe was left on the well platform. After that, she floated out of the river in Putian, Fujian. It turned out that the well was connected with the river, which was a strange case at that time, so there was a legend that Xiugu had become an immortal. It is said that Xiangu appeared in a small building in her hometown during the reign of Emperor Zong (766-779). She was seen enjoying the cool under a litchi tree in saionji, and a green silk belt was hung on the tree. Now this place is called "Hanging Green Garden", and the fruit of this litchi has a green ribbon, which is the famous "Hanging Green Litchi" in Zengcheng. This kind of strange tree was recorded in Qu Dajun's Guangdong New Talk and Zengcheng County Records in Qing Dynasty. Later, people built a He Xiangu Temple in Xiaolou, which still exists today. There is a couplet on the gate: "A Millennium single crystal, a hundred generations worship the ancient temple." Deng Chun's Lingnan Series quoted Taiping Guangji as saying that Guangzhou's second thought was to make shoes. At the age of 20, he suddenly went to Luofushan Temple and often picked bayberries for the temple, but there were no bayberries in Luofushan, and the monks didn't know where these bayberries came from. Four hundred miles north of Luofu Mountain, there is Zhou Xun Mountain Temple, in front of which there are Myrica rubra trees, surrounded by a large number of ten trees. Once, a monk from Zhou Xun Temple came to Luofu Mountain and said that one day a fairy came to their temple to pick plums. When the monk heard this, it was the day when He Erniang picked plums and fasted, and everyone knew that she was a "fairy". During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty (7 13-74 1), Huangmenshi was ordered to visit He Erniang in Guangzhou, but suddenly disappeared on the way to Beijing with Huangmenshi, and he has been in into thin air since then. Later, some scholars speculated that He Erniang was He Xiangu of Zengcheng. Some people think that He Xiangu is a figure in the Song Dynasty, and the notes of scholars in the Song Dynasty, such as Ouyang Xiu's Postscript to Ancient Records, Wei Tai's Dong Xuanlu and Zeng Minxing's Du Xing Magazine, all contain his deeds. If someone says that He Xiangu is the daughter of a native of Yongzhou, Song Renzong, she met a stranger when she was young and was given Xiantao (or Yunxianzao). Since then, she has no more seeds, so she can know her fate. In order to build a temple pavilion, the scholar-officials often come to beg for mercy. Ceng Min said that he went to He Xiangu Pavilion in Yongzhou to see the portrait of Xiangu. He Xiangu is from Hengshan, so you can forgive her. Teng Zongliang, the prefect of Baling County, met her during the period of Song Renzong Violet (104 1- 1048). Ouyang Xiu believes: "Tourists have their own balance. In his later years, Yunxian Valley was thin and his face was black, and he was the first to decline. " Later, there was a "recent cloud in Hengzhou:' The immortal is dead, and there is no wonder'". It seems that these two "fairies" are real folk witches, living in the same era; And Wang Dechen's "Lady's History" also talks about Teng Zongliang asking for advice from Yongzhou He Xiangu, so Yongzhou Xiangu and Hengzhou Xiangu may be the same person. It is recorded in Fairy Mirror of Past Dynasties that Lv Dongbin met his daughter in Lingling, was seduced by the elixir, and was introduced to Li Zhong. From then on, he went to the fairy class to clean the fallen leaves of the flat peach in Yuen Long. According to Lingling, Yongzhou is the seat of governance, so later generations think that He Xiangu is the prototype of the Eight Immortals. According to the records of Anqing local chronicles, Qiyang county chronicles, Fujian local chronicles, Zhejiang local chronicles and Shexian county chronicles quoted in The Ancient and Modern Book Collection, there are traces and rumors of local "He Xiangu" in Tongcheng, Qimen, Wuping and Changhua, Anhui. For example, He Xiangu in Tongzhi, Fujian, is the daughter of He Dalang who sells cakes. When Lv Dongbin saw that she had "fairy qualities", she asked her for cakes every day. She was very generous, and Lu was very moved, so she gave her a peach and let her go to the fairy class. This story is completely similar to the story of Lv Dongbin accepting He Xiangu as an apprentice in folklore, except that the location was changed from Guangdong to Fujian (see the book "The Meeting of the Eight Immortals"); In the legend of He Xiangu, Guangdong, there is a saying that a fairy visited immortals in Guangzhou and ascended immortals in Fujian. So some people suspect that these two "fairy goddesses" are the same person. He Xiangu, recorded in Zhejiang Tongzhi and Shexian Zhi, was born in Yuan You period in northern Song Zhezong (1086- 1094). If according to Ouyang Xiu's records, Xiangu died of old age in Hengzhou, she is obviously another "Xiangu". In addition to being recorded by laymen, there are some clues of He Xiangu in Taoist classics: for example, Lu Zuzhi said that his name was Xiangu Zhao, and his surname was homophonic because he was holding a lotus flower. Doop source figure thinks that He Xiangu is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Xu. In this way, even the gender of "nun 1" has become a problem. However, the plays of the Eight Immortals in Yuan Dynasty often have "Xu Shen Weng" but no "He Xiangu", which is well-founded. However, in Lu Zhenren's "Jiangzhou Wangjiang Pavilion" quoted in "Ancient and Modern Books Integration", there is a statement that "He Xiangu Guo's self-realization is on the stove". How can I explain it? As a result, even Taoist views on He Xiangu are quite different. Rich and controversial information has made ancient and modern scholars rack their brains to find out the truth about "He Xiangu". As mentioned above, Xiangu is considered as a girl in Guangzhou, and Xiangu is considered as a "declining girl" in Yongzhou (or Hengzhou). During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people in Lingnan and Hunan became entangled, so some people thought that He Xiangu, the Eight Immortals, was a mixture of these two images, and the former was his life story, while the latter was his Lv Dongbin disciple. However, this view has not been unanimously recognized by the academic circles.