The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

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.

Jie Xing Jiao — Taoist Star-Resolution Offering Ceremony 解星醮

Jie Xing Jiao — Taoist Star-Resolution Offering...

Paul Peng

Jie Xing Jiao (解星醮) is a Zhengyi Taoist offering ritual that dissolves astrological misfortunes by invoking the Eleven Luminaries, codified in the Song Dynasty Daomen Dingzhi.

Jie Xing Jiao — Taoist Star-Resolution Offering...

Paul Peng

Jie Xing Jiao (解星醮) is a Zhengyi Taoist offering ritual that dissolves astrological misfortunes by invoking the Eleven Luminaries, codified in the Song Dynasty Daomen Dingzhi.

Si Dian: The Ritual Canon of Ancient Chinese State Sacrifice

Si Dian: The Ritual Canon of Ancient Chinese St...

Paul Peng

Si Dian (祀典) is the ritual canon of ancient China defining which deities, spirits, and cultural heroes qualified for state-administered sacrifice — the foundational mechanism by which the Chinese state...

Si Dian: The Ritual Canon of Ancient Chinese St...

Paul Peng

Si Dian (祀典) is the ritual canon of ancient China defining which deities, spirits, and cultural heroes qualified for state-administered sacrifice — the foundational mechanism by which the Chinese state...