The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Yin Ji — Square-Cut Dried Meat Offering in Zhou Temple Ritual 尹祭

Yin Ji — Square-Cut Dried Meat Offering in Zhou...

Paul Peng

Yin Ji (尹祭) is the ancient Chinese ritual offering of precisely square-cut dried meat in the ancestral temple, prescribed in the Liji and glossed by Zheng Xuan as embodying ritual...

Yin Ji — Square-Cut Dried Meat Offering in Zhou...

Paul Peng

Yin Ji (尹祭) is the ancient Chinese ritual offering of precisely square-cut dried meat in the ancestral temple, prescribed in the Liji and glossed by Zheng Xuan as embodying ritual...

Da Xia — Grand Combined Ancestral Sacrifice of Ancient China 大祫

Da Xia — Grand Combined Ancestral Sacrifice of ...

Paul Peng

Da Xia (大祫) is the triennial grand combined ancestral sacrifice of ancient China, uniting the spirit tablets of all lineage ancestors in the ancestral temple for a unified offering ceremony.

Da Xia — Grand Combined Ancestral Sacrifice of ...

Paul Peng

Da Xia (大祫) is the triennial grand combined ancestral sacrifice of ancient China, uniting the spirit tablets of all lineage ancestors in the ancestral temple for a unified offering ceremony.

Da Xiang — The Grand Offering Feast of Ancient China 大飨

Da Xiang — The Grand Offering Feast of Ancient ...

Paul Peng

Da Xiang (大飨) is the ancient Chinese imperial ritual combining sacrifice to the Five Emperors at the Mingtang, grand ancestral worship, and a state banquet for feudal lords.

Da Xiang — The Grand Offering Feast of Ancient ...

Paul Peng

Da Xiang (大飨) is the ancient Chinese imperial ritual combining sacrifice to the Five Emperors at the Mingtang, grand ancestral worship, and a state banquet for feudal lords.

Jiu Bai — The Nine Ritual Prostrations of Ancient China 九拜

Jiu Bai — The Nine Ritual Prostrations of Ancie...

Paul Peng

Jiu Bai (九拜) is the ancient Chinese system of nine standardized ritual prostrations, codified in the Zhouli, encoding social hierarchy from court ceremony to mourning rites.

Jiu Bai — The Nine Ritual Prostrations of Ancie...

Paul Peng

Jiu Bai (九拜) is the ancient Chinese system of nine standardized ritual prostrations, codified in the Zhouli, encoding social hierarchy from court ceremony to mourning rites.

Bu Jiao — Divination for the Suburban Sacrifice in Ancient China 卜郊

Bu Jiao — Divination for the Suburban Sacrifice...

Paul Peng

Bu Jiao (卜郊) is the ancient Chinese imperial practice of divining an auspicious date for the suburban sacrifice to Heaven, requiring ancestral consultation and turtle-shell plastromancy before approaching Heaven.

Bu Jiao — Divination for the Suburban Sacrifice...

Paul Peng

Bu Jiao (卜郊) is the ancient Chinese imperial practice of divining an auspicious date for the suburban sacrifice to Heaven, requiring ancestral consultation and turtle-shell plastromancy before approaching Heaven.

Jiu Shi Fa — The Nine Methods of Taoist Dietary Practice 九食法

Jiu Shi Fa — The Nine Methods of Taoist Dietary...

Paul Peng

Jiu Shi Fa (九食法) is a Taoist system of nine graduated dietary and ingestion methods, progressing from coarse grain to embryonic nourishment, practiced within zhai purification rituals.

Jiu Shi Fa — The Nine Methods of Taoist Dietary...

Paul Peng

Jiu Shi Fa (九食法) is a Taoist system of nine graduated dietary and ingestion methods, progressing from coarse grain to embryonic nourishment, practiced within zhai purification rituals.