According to the historical records of Longmen Cave, Longmen Cave began in the Spring and Autumn Period, was built in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. It is said that in the Western Zhou Dynasty (now Hanguguan Town, Lingbao City, Henan), Yin Xi, the commander of Hanguguan, used orange grass as a building to help Laozi write the "Tao Te Ching" of five thousand words. After that, he abandoned his post and returned to the mountains to live in seclusion here. rock. During the Warring States Period, the place was renamed Dutandong. During the reign of Emperor Jingwen of the Western Han Dynasty, Jianxinhou Lou Jing, who had served as the emperor's minister, abandoned his official position and entered Taoism. In his later years, he lived in seclusion and practiced Buddhism. The place was renamed Jingfu Mountain. Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, refused to accept the imperial edict and lived in seclusion in Taixuan Cave, Longmen, collecting medicines and practicing medicine, and hanging pots to help the world. During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Ma Danyang and Qiu Chuji, the "Seven Immortals" of Taoism, practiced and preached here. Qiu Chuji practiced here for seven years, changed the name of the mountain to Longmen Cave, founded the Longmen School of Taoism, and became the most successful Quanzhen Taoist school in the history of Chinese Taoism. Because Qiu Chuji was respected by the three dynasties of the Southern Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, he was summoned by Jin Shizong and Yuan Taizu many times. He was appointed as a national teacher by Genghis Khan and took charge of Taoism across the country. Since then, Longmen Cave has become famous and entered into glory. Manchuria reached its peak. His disciples relied on mountains and rivers, took advantage of the scenery, built palaces and temples, grand mountain gates, and expanded their scale. Since then, Longmen Cave has been repaired and expanded by a group of military and political dignitaries and good men and women, including Yang Hucheng and Sun Weiru. It has also been repeatedly destroyed by war and fire, and finally formed its current appearance.

Qiu Chuji became a monk in Kunlun Mountain at the age of 19 in the first year of Jin Dabao (1166). The following year, he studied Taoist classics with Wang Chongyang, the founder of Quanzhen Sect. After living in Panxi for six years, he lived in Longmen Cave when he was 32 years old. He practiced Taoism painstakingly for seven years and founded the Longmen School of Taoism, which became a self-contained system, which became an important milestone in the history of Chinese Taoism. Qiu Chuji was summoned by Emperor Shizong of the Jin Dynasty. The imperial court gave him Taoist robes and was ordered to live in Tianchangguan. He was awarded the title of "Master of Natural Yinghua Hongjiao," and his reputation became famous in the government and the public. When he was 73 years old, he accepted the summons of Genghis Khan, Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, and led 18 disciples to set off from Laizhou, Shandong Province. After going through hardships and dangers, he met Genghis Khan and explained to him the way of "cultivating oneself, nourishing one's life, and governing the country." The human myth of "Edict, stop killing with just one word". He was granted residence in the Changchun Palace by Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, and was named "The True Taoist Bishop of Changchun". He was awarded the Golden Tiger Medal and ordered the Taoist monks all over the country to be managed by Qiu Chuji, thus becoming the Pope of Taoism. "Killing the first to know and benefiting the world has miraculous achievements." Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty brilliantly summarized this historical fact in a couplet. The ancestral court of the Longmen School of Taoism.