"One person gets the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven" is an idiom. Later, it was extended to a metaphor that when a person became an official, people who had relations with him followed suit. Satire at those who cling to power and get promoted and made a fortune.

There are different versions of the allusion "One man gets the Tao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven", so who does this idiom allusion refer to? And see the following breakdown.

Today is the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the birthday of "Blessed Bodhisattva" in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, which is also the famous "Xu Jingyang" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xu Xun has made outstanding contributions to the improvement of official management and water conservancy, so he wrote an article in memory of him.

Xu Xun (239-374), a native of Nanchang, Yuzhang, was a Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was the revered founder of Jingmingdao School. Broaden the theory of classics, astronomy, geography, medicine, yin and yang and five elements, especially like Taoist magic. At the age of twenty, Ju Xiaolian became the magistrate of Jingyang County, Sichuan Province in the first year of Jin Taikang (281), so he was called Jingyang, also known as Xu Zhenjun.

when Xu Xun was appointed as the magistrate of Jingyang county, he eliminated greed, reduced punishment, advocated benevolence and filial piety, approached virtuous people and alienated traitors, and implemented many measures to benefit the country and the people. One year, Jingyang was flooded with water, and the grain in the field was not harvested. Xu Xun sent a large number of farmers to farm in the official fields, replacing taxes with industry, so that the victims were rescued. At that time, when the plague was prevalent, Xu Xun used what he had learned and the prescription to treat it. When the medicine got rid of the disease, the people were grateful and respected their parents. At that time, Jingyang sang a folk song: "People don't steal, officials don't cheat, and my husband is alive and sick." Sheng praised Johnson's merits. People from neighboring counties have come to join them, and the number of households in Jingyang has increased greatly. Xu Xun, who lived in Jingyang for ten years, was known affectionately as "Xu Jingyang" because of his clean residence and outstanding achievements.

In the first year of Yuankang (291), the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out, and Xu Xun abandoned his official position and returned to the east. When he set out, he was sent to the wilderness. Some built temples for him, painted statues and offered sacrifices all year round; Some people followed thousands of miles to the Western Hills, lived in groups, and kept company with Xu Xun. They all changed their surnames to Xu and were called "Xu Jiaying".

after Xu Xun's return to the east, Peng Li Lake (now Poyang Lake) was flooded for years. He led the county people to relieve the flood, traveled all over Hunan, Hubei, Fujian and other places to eliminate the flood, won wide respect from the people, and was widely circulated as a fairy tale of "Xu Xun Locking the Evil Dragon".

In the fourth year of Daxing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (321), Xu Xun lived in seclusion in the former site of Meixian Temple in the southern suburbs of Nanchang, and founded a Taoist school called Taiji Temple, which was called "Pure and Clear Realm" and established the Pure and Clear Taoist School. Its purpose is "honesty, loyalty and filial piety". Xu Xun lived to be one hundred and thirty-six, and on the first day of August in the second year of Jinning Kang (374), 42 members of his family flew to heaven together, and the world honored him as "Xu Xian". Today, pilgrims from hundreds of miles away come here to pay homage to Wanshou Palace in Xishan, Nanchang. Incense and candles are burning all night, the furnace smoke is ethereal, and the bells are melodious, which is spectacular. Even the Wanshou Palace all over the country is celebrating "Xu Jingyang" today. Famous ones include Nanjing Wanshou Palace in Jiangsu, Longtan Wanshou Palace in Chongqing, Phoenix Wanshou Palace in Hunan, Suzhou Wanshou Palace in Jiangsu and Huize Wanshou Palace in Yunnan. In ancient times, where Jiangxi people lived together, there was the Wanshou Palace.

an allusion is always supported by some vivid deeds, otherwise it will not stand the historical research and will eventually be deleted and forgotten by the people. According to records, on the first day of August in the second year of Ningkang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (374), 42 members of the family flew to heaven together, so it is said that the people in the allusion of "one person gets the word, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" cannot leave Xu Jingyang. Let's take a look at other versions to eliminate the false and retain the true.

Version 1: Recruit people who know the Tao in the world, pour the respect of a country, and teach Taoism. It is based on the combination of Taoism and Huainan, and it is inevitable to win out. Wang Sui got the word, and his family ascended to heaven, and all his livestock were immortal, with dogs barking in the sky and chickens crowing in the clouds.

The story of Han Wang Chong's Lun Heng Dao Xu tells the story of Corporal Liu An, the king of the South of Han Dynasty, who was enlightened by others and learned the Tao by stealth. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent someone to arrest him. In desperation, Liu An drank Dan medicine and soared in the daytime. The chickens and dogs at home ate the dregs of the medicine and flew into immortality with him. Please look at the historical materials below to know the authenticity.

in 212 BC, after Xiang Yu, the overlord of the western Chu Dynasty, was defeated, Liu Bang was persuaded by Han Xin, Ying Bu, Peng Yue, Wu Rui, Zhang Ao and Zangcha, the king of Hengshan, and transformed from Hanwang into the emperor of the Han Dynasty, dominating the whole country. Later, Ying Bu, king of Huainan, led troops against Han, and Liu Bang defeated Ying Bu and put down the rebellion. Liu Bang thought that it was because of a different surname that he would be alienated from the central government. Therefore, Liu Bang began to enfeoffment the princes to the children of Liu's imperial clan. Liu Bang * * * had eight sons, of which the youngest son, Liu Chang, succeeded Ying Bu as the official title and was made king of Huainan by his father. Liu Chang secretly sent people to collude with Prince Qi and others, and planned to join forces with Fujian, Vietnam and Xiongnu to rebel. His plot was soon discovered by the court, and he himself was arrested in Beijing. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty did not punish Liu Changji according to law because of his brotherly affection, but exiled him to Shu County. Liu Chang died of hunger strike on the way to the match, only 25 years old. Later, Liu An, the eldest son of Huainan Wang Liu Chang, inherited his father's title and became the king of Huainan. Liu An likes to make friends with guests. When he was the king of Huainan, these guests not only engaged in lectures and alchemy in Huainan Wangfu, but also often had political discussions with him. At the same time, Liu An kept gathering strength to prepare for one day's rebellion. Before Liu An's rebellion could be implemented, he was denounced by Lei Bei and Wu Bei, one of the "Eight Men", and his grandson Liu Jian was also denounced. At this time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was busy cutting Francisco, sent a famous cruel official Zhang Tang to handle the case, and the result was that Liu An's rebellion was true. Liu An, who knew his sin was unforgivable, was forced to commit suicide. Since then, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty has abolished Huainan State by imperial edict, changed Huainan's hometown to Jiujiang County, and returned it to the central government, and the clan of Huainan King has thus fallen. Judging from the above historical data, Liu An and Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, rebelled against the Central Committee for two generations, and Liu An abused his father, which made the crime worse. Can such unfaithful and unfilial people gain enlightenment? What can Liu An do to cultivate immortality? From the story of the Eight Immortals, Tie Guai Li, Han Zhongli, Lan Caihe, Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, Lv Dongbin, Han Xiangzi and Cao Guojiu. They are all mortals and have prototypes, and they are all trained to be immortal by hard work and good deeds. Liu An can't find anything to do good for the people in the official history and unofficial history, and there is no temple to commemorate Liu An, so the allusion of Liu An's "One man gets the word, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" can't be established. It can be seen that what Han Wang Chong fabricated is a lie, without any factual basis, a perjury and a false code. Not enough to rely on.

why did Han Wang chong make a fabrication? A little analysis will tell. After claiming to be Wang Mang in Lun Heng Zi Ji Pian, Han Wang Chong has a noble pedigree. With the disappearance of Wang Mang's regime, his family status plummeted. "There is no acre of shelter for poverty" and "there is no rank for fighting stones". When Wang Chong was about ten years old, his father died and became an orphan. The noble lineage did not leave him with favorable conditions, so he had a rebellious mentality. Therefore, it is said that "the ancestors have no foundation for Shu Yi". Historian Liu Zhiji denounced Wang Chong as a "sinner of 3,111", saying that "it is hard to be filial to insult his grandfather". The articles of such disloyal and unfilial people will inevitably contain false elements. It can be seen that Han Wang Chong's fiction of "Ascending to Heaven through Enlightenment" for Liu An, the king of Huainan, Han Dynasty, is to express his grievances for Wang Mang's usurpation of Han Dynasty, and to vent his resentment in his heart, and at the same time feel pity for the fleeting disappearance of Wang Mang's regime. That is to say, he expressed sympathy for Liu An, the king of Huainan, who failed in the rebellion, and used the story of "Enlightenment to Heaven" to show his ambition and give a hidden vent to the reactionary thoughts that still existed in the spirit of unsuccessful rebellion. This shows that Han Wang Chong is a traitor in his bones. It should be criticized. There are also descendants who say that Lun Heng is an immortal atheistic work in the history of China, so it is a great irony that Han Wang Chong invented the story of "Ascending to Heaven by Enlightenment" for Liu An, the king of Huainan.

the 39th record of the biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu and Zhong Changtong in the later Han Dynasty says: "If the theory is full of goodness, it will be reasonable at first. It is thought that vulgar Confucianism keeps the text and loses its truth, but it is a closed-door meditation, and the ceremony of hanging is absolutely celebrated. The walls of households are equipped with knives and pens. He wrote eighty-five articles on Balance. " It can be seen that there are still many narratives in the eighty-five articles of Lun Heng, so readers can discard the false and retain the true when reading. I'm just throwing a brick to attract jade here. Reading history books is not reading "dead books".

version 2: according to the immortal Tang gongfang stele, during the period from Xiping to Yuanhe (168-184), people built temples and monuments for Chenggu (now Chenggu county) to "lift the Tang gongfang to heaven" and paid homage to this immortal. The monument is engraved with a magical and touching story.

This story is told in the second year of Han Jushe (AD 7). There was a man named Tang Gongfang in Xujiamiao, Chenggu County, Hanzhong, who was an official in Hanzhong County. One day in Chenggu's hometown, I met a real person who cultivated immortality and gained enlightenment. He worshipped this real person as a teacher and sent delicious melons to the master for tasting. The real person felt sincere and asked him to give him an elixir on the hill of Xugukou. After taking the elixir, the public houses can distinguish the language of birds and animals, walk like a fly, and the county government will arrive in a blink of an eye hundreds of miles away, which surprised the villagers and the sheriff. The chief of Hanzhong learned from public houses, but he never learned the law. I thought that the public houses were left with one hand and deliberately refused to teach. I wanted to harm the public houses and my family, and ordered my men to go to Chenggu to arrest Tang's wife and children. Tang told the master about this situation, and the real person said that there was no need to panic. He could fly away and escape from bad luck after taking a fairy medicine. Tang's wife yearned for the house and livestock, and the immortal painted the house with fairy medicine. The whole family and livestock all took the fairy medicine: "In a short time, there was a strong wind and clouds to welcome the wife of the public house, and the house and livestock suddenly went away." So "chickens crow in the sky" and "dogs bark in the clouds". This is the story of the whole family of Tang public houses "ascending to heaven in the daytime" and "pulling out their families and soaring" recorded in the monument. The story and legend of "Tang public house pulling out the house to ascend to heaven" is recorded in the immortal Tang public house monument, but the inscription does not record the humanistic deeds of Tang public house. There is no humanistic record of Tang public houses in Hanshu and Houhanshu. It is mentioned in the inscription "Immortal Tang Public House Monument" that the monument was erected by Guo Zhi, the satrap of Hanzhong. There are fifteen other names engraved on the tablet, which are estimated to be Tang Gongfang's former friends and local celebrities. According to the story, although Tang Gongfang was a small official, he did not mention his achievements as an official, but showed off his Taoism and won the title of immortal Tang Gongfang. Sacrifice him with folk burial customs. Therefore, later generations speculated that he was against the current dynasty and was framed to death. Guo Zhi, the satrap of Hanzhong, erected a monument and built a temple for it. Perhaps Tang Gongfang did something good for the people.

Two major political events occurred during the reign of Emperor Han Ling. In the first year of Yongkang (AD 167), eunuch forces led by Cao Jie and Wang Fu staged a coup, placed Dou Taihou under house arrest, seized power, and killed more than 111 righteous students such as Ying Li and Fan Wei, exiled and imprisoned more than 811 people, many of whom died tragically in prison. Obviously, Tang Gongfang has nothing to do with this matter. In 184, the Yellow Scarf Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao broke out. Zhang Jiao is a Taoist middleman. There is no historical data to find out whether Tang Gongfang was involved in Zhang Jiao's Yellow Scarf Uprising. However, Zhang Jiao has been involved in folk activities for more than ten years, with 311,111 to 411,111 people. With its huge momentum and wide area, Tang Gongfang is likely to get his hands on it, so it is reasonable that Tang Gongfang may be hunted to death by the government. Obviously, it is a matter of asking for immortals, and it is not allowed to be remembered by borrowing fairy things. Therefore, the story of "Tang public houses pulling out houses to ascend to heaven" is purely out of thin air. Then the allusion of "one person gets the word, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" does not refer to Tang public houses.

This story is just a legend, and its authenticity cannot be verified. But one thing is certain, Han Wang Chong has read this record, but the story of Liu An, the king of Huainan in Han Dynasty, which he wrote is almost the same as that of Tang Gongfang. It can be seen that Han Wang Chong replaced the hero with Liu An, the king of Huainan, by stealing the beam and replacing the column, which shows that Han Wang Chong had good intentions and was despicable. Its purpose is to express grievances and grievances for Wang Mang's short-lived regime.

Let's take a look back-Xu Xun Xu Zhenjun.

Xu Xun was born in 239 AD, belonging to the Three Kingdoms period. He lived to be 136 years old and died in 374 AD in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties were the period when Taoism originated, and Xu Jingyang became the leader of Jingming Taoism. (Zhuge Liang failed to become one of them during the Three Kingdoms period. Jingmingdao is a Taoist Sect in the text. Also known as Jingming loyalty and filial piety. Jingmingdao is one of the most prominent Taoism in the history of Taoism in China. Xu Xun was an honest official with outstanding achievements, which is recorded in the history books. The story of Xu Xun's "Killing the Evil Dragon" has been widely circulated so far. Although Xu Xun's enlightenment is a beautiful legend, this beautiful legend has a broad mass base and is recognized by the superstructure. In recognition of his merits, the Eastern Jin court renamed Jingyang County Deyang County. Wang Anshi, Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote Xu Jingyang's Memorial Hall. Later emperors greatly appreciated its teachings. Liu An, the king of Huainan, and Tang Gongfang can't even get close to each other in this respect, which is enough to prove that they have no social practice foundation, and they can't be trusted in the end. Besides, before Xu Xun was born in 239 AD, there was no idiom borrowed from other literary classics. From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present, we can still see the idiom "One person gets the Tao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" borrowed. History is undeniable. It has been 1637 years since 374 AD, and Xu Zhenjun has been enjoying folk incense. Every year, on the first day of August in the lunar calendar, people will commemorate Xu Zhenjun's birthday, burn incense and worship at Wanshou Palace in various places, and ask the "Blessed Bodhisattva" to bless one side's peace and pray for good weather, prosperous population and abundant crops in the coming year.

At the end of this article, we can basically draw the conclusion that the person referred to in the idiom "One man gets the Tao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" is Xu Jingyang, Xu Xun Xu Zhenjun, who is called "Blessing the Lord and Bodhisattva" by Jiangxi people.

Nanpu No.1 Bridge was located in Wanshou Palace, Xishan, Nanchang on August 29th, 2111 (the first day of the eighth lunar month).