Perfected Changchun's Journey to the West is composed by two volumes that reveal the secret history of Quanzhen Longmen Daoism and Qiu Chuji's meeting with Genghis Khan. These matters have been passed down orally for 800 years from generation to generation to Wang Liping, the eighteenth-generation transmitter of the Longmen school.
In 1228, Qiu Chuji's disciple, Li Zhichang, published
The Journey to the West of the Perfected Changchun, which
provides only a superficial account of his master's journey and conversations, excluding many confidential portions. This new version of
Perfected Changchun's Journey to the West, published 800 years later, delves into the secrets behind it-including matters of the Quanzhen Longmen school that are unknown to the public.
Many famous Daoist masters have existed in Chinese history, but in terms of contributions, Qiu Chuji certainly ranks among the top. To save the people, he disregarded the advanced age of 74 and travelled over ten thousand kilometres to persuade Genghis Khan to stop the killing.
Such courage and wisdom are unparalleled. Both scholars studying Genghis Khan and Qiu Chuji have many questions:
How did an elderly Daoist priest convince a fierce conqueror to heed his counsel?
Why did Qiu Chuji choose a long detour from Shandong to Afghanistan?
Is the legend true that the Quanzhen school issued a warrant for the assassination of Genghis Khan?
What parts of the conversation between Genghis Khan and Qiu Chuji were omitted from the historical records?
Why were there twenty-one disciples accompanying Qiu Chuji on his westward journey, while in the ancient texts only eighteen are mentioned?
Is the Yuan dynasty's establishment of its capital in Yanjing (present-day Beijing) related to Qiu Chuji?
Why did Qiu Chuji and Genghis Khan die on the same day, month, and year?
Where exactly is Genghis Khan's tomb?
Let us journey back eight hundred years, stepping into the boundless grasslands, into the Gobi where the north wind howls, into the desolate wilderness of the great desert, into the ancient battlefields where swords and horses clashed, and into the epic tales of yore.
Wang Liping (born 30 June 1949, in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China) is the eighteenth-generation transmitter, heir and successor of the Longmen School of Quanzhen Daoism. At the age of 13, he began his apprenticeship under the grandmaster Zhang Hedao and the masters Wang Jiaoming and Jia Jiaoyi. He has taught the methods of
The Secret of the Golden Flower in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Du Xiaojun (born 10 November 1964, in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, China) has studied under Wang Liping for over 30 years and has worked as a teacher, prosecutor, lawyer, and senior executive. He has published the novels
Breaking the Ice,
Spring Tide, and
Those Years in This City.
Breaking the Ice was adapted into the TV series
Setting Sail, which premiered on CCTV-1 on January 9, 2019, as the opening drama of the year and won the Five-One Project Award of Hebei Province.
