乐生活Several dialogues between the emperor and Zhang Tianshi:
Zhang Jixian, the 30th Tianshi Teacher, met with Song Huizong three or four times. When meeting for the first time, Huizong asked: Living in Longhu Mountain, can you often see dragons and tigers? Zhang Jixian answered: Tigers are common, but dragons are for the first time today. This steadily patted the emperor’s dragon fart. Because of the name Xujing given by Huizong, later generations called Xujing Tianshi, that is, the shepherd boy Tianshi first time in Water Margin, but it passed through the Song Renzong period.
Zhang Zongyan, the 36th Tianshi teacher, was summoned by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty. He said to him, "Your father (Zhang Keda, the 35th generation of Tianshi) had predicted many years ago that the world would be unified in twenty years, and it worked. The Yuan Dynasty ancestors officially named Zhang Zongyan as " the next Han Tianshi ", which was the first time that the court recognized the title of Tianshi and was responsible for the management of Taoism in the south of the Yangtze River.
Zhang Normal, the 42nd generation, was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. He raised an academic question: Is there a teacher in heaven? What do you mean by that? How can God have a teacher? Therefore, they were only regarded as the heirs of Dazhen, the official no longer gave the title of Tianshi, but they were destined to command Taoism from generation to generation.
