The La Wan Hui 喇万惠
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La Wan Hui (1902-1991), a native of Jun County, Hubei Province.
He became a Taoist priest of the Huashan School at the age of eight.

Proficient in music theory, he was skilled at playing wind instruments and flutes.
At the age of seventeen, he studied under the abbot of Tianhe Building in Taihe Palace, practicing Zhengyi rituals, as well as the morning and evening lesson rhymes of Taoism and various Huanglu memorial ceremonies.
A few years later, he mastered the rituals of both Quanzhen and Zhengyi sects.
In 1933, he served as a Gaogong (High Priest) at Xuanmiao Temple in Hanyang and Dadao Temple in Wuhan.
In 1939, he returned to Wudang Mountain and soon after, lived among the common people.
In 1979, he went back to Wudang Mountain to sort out Wudang Taoist music. In 1984, he took up the position of Gaogong at Wudang Mountain and assisted in compiling and publishing Taoist Music of Wudang Mountain in China.
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Paul Peng
Paul Peng is a Zhengyi Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi — the ancestral home of the Celestial Masters' tradition. Ordained at 25 after a dream from the Celestial Master, he has practiced for 25 years under Master Zeng Guangliang. He is one of the curators of this store, which is officially authorized by Tianshi Fu. All items are consecrated at the temple by the resident priest team.
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