The Ni Shaotong 倪少通

The Ni Shaotong 倪少通

Paul Peng
Ni Shaotong (899-990) lived during the late Five Dynasties and early Northern Song Dynasty. His courtesy name was Ziming, and his ancestors were from Qiansheng (an ancient county, location corresponding to parts of modern Shandong Province).
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, to avoid the chaos of war, his family moved to Baling (now Yueyang, Hunan Province).

He was born into a scholarly Confucian family. When he grew up, he traveled to Jiujiang and was delighted by the scenery of Mount Lu, so he built a house there to reside.


Ni Shaotong was known to the imperial court for his pure heart and frugal lifestyle. The court granted permission to build Taiyi Guan (Taiyi Taoist Temple) at his residence, and issued an imperial edict appointing him as the Daozheng (official in charge of Taoist affairs) of the local prefecture and administrator of Taiyi Guan.


Ni Shaotong maintained an upright conduct and a tranquil, detached mindset, enjoying the life among mountains and springs for more than sixty years, and he remained consistent in his virtues from beginning to end.


He had nearly forty disciples, including Li Yanzhao and Jiang Shoulong, all of whom were praised by people of their time for their filial piety.


He passed away in August of the first year of the Chunhua era (990) at the age of ninety-one.


(From Collected Works of Lord Xu, Volume 27)
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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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