佛祖統紀 52.81

52.81

秦始皇。茅盈得道。治江南句曲山。二弟固衷從兄亦成真。老君遣使拜盈為司命真君。固為定錄君。衷為保命君。世號三茅君。○始皇聞鬼谷先生云。東海祖洲有不死草。之遣除福將童男童女三千人入海。尋祖洲不返。

Under the First Emperor of the Qin, Mao Ying attained the Dao and governed Gouqu Mountain south of the Yangtze. His two younger brothers, Gu and Zhong, followed their elder brother and also attained realization. Lord Lao dispatched an envoy to appoint Ying as the True Sovereign Director of Destinies, Gu as the Sovereign of Settled Registers, and Zhong as the Sovereign Protector of Destinies; the world styled them the Three Sovereigns Mao. The First Emperor heard Master Guigu say that the herb of immortality grew on Zuzhou in the Eastern Sea. He then dispatched Xu Fu leading three thousand virgin boys and girls to enter the sea in search of Zuzhou, never to return.