Zhenming, Qiping, Tonggu County, Jiangxi Province, was an English Taoist instrument author: Dai Oral; Lan and Lu Pengzhi, ed. Taoist Ritual Series. Taipei: New Style Publishing House, 20 14. ? Taoist Ritual Series is a series co-edited by John Lagewe and Lu Pengzhi, which mainly publishes scientific books, investigation reports or research works about Taoist rituals existing in various places. After a long period of brewing and preparation, this series will be published from 20 14. This series of books is jointly published by Xinwenfeng Publishing Company and Sikeyuan Wong Tai Sin Temple, and the funds required for publication are exclusively sponsored by Sikeyuan. This series of projects is supported by the fifth round of Excellence Program of the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, "Research on Social Historical Anthropology in China" and one of its executing agencies, the Research Center for Historical Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This series is planned to be published 14.

The "Baiyun Mountain Natural Thunder Altar" in Qiping Town, Tonggu County, Jiangxi Province is a Taoist altar with a long history. According to the "ancestors" enshrined in the altar, the collected textbooks, local tombstones, genealogy and word of mouth, the founder of the altar was the Taoist Lei Zishou who lived in the early Ming Dynasty. After several generations of inheritance, the altar was passed on to Taoist Dai in the late Qing Dynasty. Dai Daochang has been handed down for five generations, with a history of 160 years. Now Taoist Dai is in charge of the altar. Tanban staff are scattered Taoist priests, who can hold more than 20 kinds of ceremonies, all of which are very traditional subjects. This book first briefly introduces the basic situation of Taoist altars (including geographical location, origin of Taoist altars, Taoist priests in altar classes, arrangement of altars, utensils, costumes and textbooks of Taoist altars), and the main part records in detail the ritual processes such as conferring a post, taking illness in advance, clearing the instrument and dying, and the last part introduces and records several secrets of Taoist altars. At the end of the book, there are 180 photocopies of more than 65438 kinds of printed materials (including classics, symbols, magical pictures, documents, etc. ) folk Taoist ceremony.