The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Wang Ju: The Mountain-Gazing Collective Sacrifice 望聚

Wang Ju: The Mountain-Gazing Collective Sacrifi...

Paul Peng

Wang Ju (望聚) is the Zhou dynasty collective gazing-sacrifice to mountains and rivers — performed by facing the sacred feature's direction, uniting community worship with the spirits of the natural...

Wang Ju: The Mountain-Gazing Collective Sacrifi...

Paul Peng

Wang Ju (望聚) is the Zhou dynasty collective gazing-sacrifice to mountains and rivers — performed by facing the sacred feature's direction, uniting community worship with the spirits of the natural...

Zu La: The Year-End Ancestral and La Sacrifice 祖腊

Zu La: The Year-End Ancestral and La Sacrifice 祖腊

Paul Peng

Zu La (祖腊) is the ancient Chinese year-end rite combining the ancestral road sacrifice (祖) with the La festival offering to the hundred spirits — a comprehensive closing of the...

Zu La: The Year-End Ancestral and La Sacrifice 祖腊

Paul Peng

Zu La (祖腊) is the ancient Chinese year-end rite combining the ancestral road sacrifice (祖) with the La festival offering to the hundred spirits — a comprehensive closing of the...

Zu Dao: The Ancestral Road Sacrifice Before Travel 祖道

Zu Dao: The Ancestral Road Sacrifice Before Tra...

Paul Peng

Zu Dao (祖道) is the Zhou dynasty pre-travel rite combining an ancestral temple announcement with a road deity offering — securing both ancestral blessing and divine protection for the journey...

Zu Dao: The Ancestral Road Sacrifice Before Tra...

Paul Peng

Zu Dao (祖道) is the Zhou dynasty pre-travel rite combining an ancestral temple announcement with a road deity offering — securing both ancestral blessing and divine protection for the journey...

Bai Sao: The Grave Sweeping and Ancestral Visit 拜扫

Bai Sao: The Grave Sweeping and Ancestral Visit 拜扫

Paul Peng

Bai Sao (拜扫) is the Chinese folk practice of visiting and sweeping ancestral graves on Qingming, Hanshi, and death anniversaries — the most intimate form of ancestor veneration in Chinese...

Bai Sao: The Grave Sweeping and Ancestral Visit 拜扫

Paul Peng

Bai Sao (拜扫) is the Chinese folk practice of visiting and sweeping ancestral graves on Qingming, Hanshi, and death anniversaries — the most intimate form of ancestor veneration in Chinese...

Po Ji: Wheel-Rolling Road Sacrifice in Ancient China 破祭

Po Ji: Wheel-Rolling Road Sacrifice in Ancient ...

Paul Peng

Po Ji (破祭) is an ancient Zhou dynasty road sacrifice in which a chariot wheel crushes the offering — a ritual act symbolizing the traveler's triumph over obstacles on the...

Po Ji: Wheel-Rolling Road Sacrifice in Ancient ...

Paul Peng

Po Ji (破祭) is an ancient Zhou dynasty road sacrifice in which a chariot wheel crushes the offering — a ritual act symbolizing the traveler's triumph over obstacles on the...

Bai Bai: Folk Deity Worship in Min-Tai Tradition 拜拜

Bai Bai: Folk Deity Worship in Min-Tai Traditio...

Paul Peng

Bai Bai (拜拜) is the beloved Min-Tai folk tradition of prostration worship before deities on their sacred birthdays — a living blend of community devotion, incense offerings, and Zhengyi Taoist...

Bai Bai: Folk Deity Worship in Min-Tai Traditio...

Paul Peng

Bai Bai (拜拜) is the beloved Min-Tai folk tradition of prostration worship before deities on their sacred birthdays — a living blend of community devotion, incense offerings, and Zhengyi Taoist...