佛祖統紀 35.112

35.112

元封元年。上東巡狩見老父。頭上白光數尺。面有童色。上問何道。對曰。臣年八十五垂死。有道士教臣絕穀服朮飲水。今日行三百里。年百八十矣。帝受其方。老父後入岱山○上登嵩高起道宮。齋七日西南有白雲起。徑趨宮庭。群仙數千從西王母乘紫雲之輦。命帝坐。侍女進桃四枚。帝收其核欲種之。母曰。此桃三千年一實。中國土薄不能生也。母命侍女王子登。彈八琅之璈。董雙成吹雲和之笙。許飛瓊皷震虛之簧。段安香作九天之鈞。帝叩頭問長生之道。母曰。汝性淫亂奢侈殺伐非法。欲以解脫三尸全身永久不可得也。乃命上元夫人。出八會之書五嶽真形圖六甲靈飛符。凡十二事以授帝。王母與夫人同乘。向西南而去。帝以靈文安柏梁臺。常朝拜之（武帝內傳）。

In the first year of Yuanfeng, His Majesty made an imperial inspection tour to the east and saw an old man whose head emitted white light several feet high, with a youthful complexion. His Majesty asked what Dao he possessed. He replied: "When I was eighty-five and on the verge of death, a Daoist master taught me to abstain from grain, ingest atractylodes, and drink water. Today I can walk three hundred *li* a day, and I am one hundred and eighty years old." The Emperor received his formula. The old man later entered Mount Dai. ○ His Majesty climbed Mount Songgao and built a Daoist palace. After fasting for seven days, white clouds arose in the southwest and proceeded directly to the palace courtyard. Several thousand immortals escorted the Queen Mother of the West riding in a carriage of purple clouds. She bade the Emperor sit, and a maidservant presented four peaches. The Emperor collected their stones wishing to plant them. The Queen Mother said: "These peaches bear fruit once every three thousand years; the soil of the Central Plains is thin and cannot grow them." The Queen Mother ordered her maidservant Wang Zideng to play the eight-gem zither, Dong Shuangcheng to blow the cloud-harmony mouth organ, Xu Feiqiong to strum the void-vibrating reed, and Duan Anxiang to perform the melody of the Nine Heavens. The Emperor kowtowed and asked about the way to longevity. The Queen Mother said: "Your nature is wanton, extravagant, violent, and unlawful; if you wish thereby to liberate yourself from the Three Corpses and preserve your body forever, it cannot be attained." She then ordered the Lady of the Upper Origin to bring out the Book of the Eight Confluences, the True Form Chart of the Five Marchmounts, and the Talismans of the Spirit Flight of the Six Jia, twelve items in all, to bestow upon the Emperor. The Queen Mother and the Lady rode together, departing toward the southwest. The Emperor installed the numinous texts at Bailiang Terrace and regularly worshipped them. (*Inner Biography of Emperor Wu*)