Lu Xiujing (406-477) was a Taoist priest of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. Zi Yuande. A native of Wuxing East Migration (now Wuxing East, Zhejiang Province). Descendants of Lu Kai, a renowned prime minister of the Eastern Wu during The Three Kingdoms period. Since childhood, I have been studying Confucianism and have also been interested in the Great I Ching, numerology, and the River and Luo River prophecies. After achieving fame, he was particularly fond of the art of tranquility and health preservation, so he left home and went to Yunmeng Mountain to live in seclusion and practice Taoism. Later, he traveled all over the world of famous mountains, sought the traces of immortals, searched extensively, his footprints reached as far south as the nine , the Luofu mountains, and as far west as the Qingcheng, the Emei mountains of Sichuan. In the thirtieth year of the Yuanjia era (453), he came to Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) to sell medicine. Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty ordered Xu Zhanzhi, the left censor, to invite him to the palace to preach. Later, to avoid the hardships of the Taichu era, he left the capital and traveled southward. In the fifth year of the Daming era (461), he established a Taoist temple in the southeast of Mount Lu and secluded himself to cultivate Taoism. In the third year of the Taishi era of Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty (467), he was summoned to Jiankang again and stayed at the Chongxu Pavilion on Tianyin Mountain in the northern suburbs. During this period, he collated and edited a large number of Taoist scriptures he had collected over a long period of time, distinguishing their authenticity. There were a total of 1,128 volumes of books including scriptures, precepts, prescriptions, and talismans and diagrams, which were classified into three categories: true, mysterious, and divine. In the seventh year of the Taishi era (471), the "Catalogue of the Three Caves Scriptures" was compiled, which was the earliest comprehensive catalogue of Taoist scriptures in the history of Taoism. Later, the name "Three Caves" in the Taoist Canon probably originated from this. Lu Xiujing advocated that the practice of Taoism should be carried out through three methods: worship, chanting sutras and contemplating the spirit, in order to purify the mind and conduct and reach the supreme Way. Therefore, he compiled over a hundred volumes of Taoist scriptures on fasting and rituals, which initially unified and perfected the Taoist rituals. The Celestial Master's Way reformed by him was later called the Southern Celestial Master's Way. He died in Jiankang in the fifth year of the Yuanhui reign (477). His disciples were buried on Mount Lu and were later named "Mr. Jianji". His former residence on Mount Lu was called "Jianji Temple". During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was enfeoffed as "Danyuan Zhenren".