Yan Junping's Lao Zi Zhi Gui says: Wandering in emptiness and quietness, focusing on subtlety, caring for no desire and referring to inaction can achieve life and prolong life, and stay with Tao for a long time.
Yan Junping was a Taoist scholar and thinker in the early Western Han Dynasty from 86 BC to 1 AD. Ming Zun (it is said that the original name was Zhuang Junping, and Han Shu was written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it was rewritten as Yan Junping to avoid the taboo of Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Dynasty), and he was from Chengdu, Shu County.
When Emperor Han Chengdi (reigned in the first 32 ~ 7 years), he lived in seclusion in the well of Chengdu (the great hermit was in the ruling and opposition parties, the middle hermit was in the street, and the little hermit retired from the mountains leisurely). Take divination as a profession (divining turtles to give people a face). Yan Junping is free along with the gender. His divination stall counts divination every day, and when he has enough money to make ends meet, he collects it and goes home. He taught "to be good because of the situation", and preached loyalty, filial piety, faithfulness and Laozi's moral classics to benefit everyone. After 5 years old, he retired, wrote and apprenticed in Pingle Mountain, Pixian County, at the age of 91. On the day of his funeral, the people spontaneously came out to pay his respects, and the streets were blocked.
Yan Junping once wrote a prediction that "Wang Mang was subdued and prospered by military force", and predicted two important historical events "Wang Mang usurped power" and "prospered by military force" more than 2 years in advance, which shows how accurate the prediction is and how in-depth the study of the Book of Changes is. Yang Xiong, a proud disciple, has also been trained, and he has written two most important works in his life-13 volumes of Notes on Laozi and Guide to the True Classics of Morality (Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi as Guide to Laozi), which has made Li Er's Taoist theory more systematic and carried forward.
The Taoist theory and philosophical thoughts in Laozi Zhigui were inherited by Yang Xiong, Wang Bi, Cheng Xuanying and others, and became the germination of ontology and heavy metaphysics put forward by metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Yang Xiong once praised the teacher, saying that neither the Pearl of Sui Hou nor the wall of He's family can be compared with the brilliance of Yan Junping. ("The wall of Heshi is not decorated with five picks; The pearl of Sui Hou is not decorated with silver and yellow, but its beauty is not enough. " )
His scholarship has been passed down to this day, but little is known about his deeds. In any case, although the master has passed away, his contribution to people and his works still shine with eternal light in the long river of history.
In the past, there was Junping Hutong to the west of Zhijishi Street in Chengdu. According to research, it was in this area that Yan Junping divined divination, and its relics included Yan Xianjing and Junping Putai. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this place was called "Junping Busi"; In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was rebuilt as Yan Zhen Guan; Junping remains were preserved here in Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and Junping Street was found in Qing Dynasty. To this day, we can still see this street near the People's Park.