The origin of Mr. Yin and Yang's name

Yin-yang teacher refers to a kind of person who knows some geomantic omen, Yin-yang gossip and five elements numerology. It evolved from Taoism in the early days, and calculated the birth and death of good and bad luck and so on. Most of them refer to feng shui masters, but in some places in Northeast China, professionals engaged in funeral etiquette are also called Yin and Yang masters.

In ancient Maoshan Taoism, Yang, the founder of Shangqing School, and Ge Hong, an alchemist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced here successively. In the tenth year of Southern Qi Yongming, Tao Hongjing, who had been an idle official in the imperial court for fourteen years, suddenly resigned. With the approval of Emperor Wu of Qi, he went to Maoshan to live in seclusion. He lives in Huayang Cave, Jintan and calls himself "Mr. Huayang Seclusion". The predecessor of Maoshan Sect is the Shangqing Sect of Taoism. Tao Hongjing inherited the Shangqing Classics handed down by Yang and others, and carefully compiled more than 200 volumes of Taoist classics, such as the True Patent, the Secret Method of Ascending Truth, and the Map of True Spirit, which specifically described the early teachings and magical powers of the Shangqing School, and made the Shangqing Classics develop. Later, after decades of painstaking efforts by him and his disciples, the teaching theory and organization gradually improved. Later generations took Maoshan as their ancestral home and gradually developed into the later "Maoshan School", which is also another name of Shangqing School with Maoshan as its development center. Since Tao Hongjing, Maoshan Sect has produced a large number of talented people, and its influence is expanding day by day. Maoshan School reached its peak in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and Wang, Pan, Sima and Li Hanguang of Maoshan School in the Tang Dynasty were all highly respected by the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty. Maoshanzong mainly inherited the true sutra of Dadong in Qing Dynasty, and its practice methods were mainly meditation and chanting. And an alchemist. Master Tao Hongjing himself is an alchemist, and Liang Wudi once took his elixir. From Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, Maoshan School merged with other schools and ceased to exist. It is also said that most of Mr. Yin and those who catch ghosts and subdue demons are spells.