Cui Xifan

Cui Xifan, a Taoist figure in the Tang Dynasty. It's called "Zhiyi Zhenren". He wrote "Medicine Mirror" to discuss the Taoist inner alchemy method. This book had a great influence on the history of Neidan. "Ten Books on Cultivation: Tianyuan Becomes the Medicine Mirror" contains Cui Xifan's autobiography, which is titled "Tang Gengzi looked forward to the day when he came to the end of the year, Cui Xifanfan, the real person." In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was recorded in "Daoshu" that Lu Dongbin received the "Medicine Mirror" from Cui Xifan, and further understood the essence of inner elixir. Lu Dongbin's poem downloaded from the volume of "Chunyang Zhenren Huncheng Collection" says: "Reading Cui Gong's "Medicine Mirror" makes people's hearts and minds clear." Volume 45 of "Xianjian" records that Lu Yan "recovered in the first year of Guangming of Emperor Xizong (880), met Cui Gong's "Medicine Mirror", and knew that cultivating one's life is not bad at all."