The Shen Yongliang 沈永良
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Shen Yongliang (? - 1866), a native of Huangyan, Zhejiang Province, was a Taoist priest in the late Qing Dynasty. Orphaned and poor in his childhood, he worked as a craftsman. Later, he received Taoist initiation from Jin Jiaoshan at Tongbai Palace on Tiantai Mountain and mastered inner alchemy techniques. Pretending to be mad and cynical, he was known as "Demon Shen" and styled himself "Zuidian" (Drunken Madman).

Wearing a single tattered robe all year round, he seemed unaffected by cold and heat. At the age of seventy, he still looked like a young boy. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the fifth year of the Tongzhi reign (1866), he raised one foot in the posture of a crane standing and passed away.
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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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