Walking into the Taoist Concert Hall of Gongguan, light tones suddenly floated to my ears, and I could only hear "jade crashing into gold, silk blowing and bamboo blowing, floating in the clouds." Everyone who listened to it with their own ears was in awe, and suddenly felt that "the lingering sound lingered for three days without stopping."

In 2006, the State Council announced the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, and Wudang Mountain Temple Taoist Music was included in it.

The Taoist music of Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty was unique and closely related to the imperial ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), Qiu Xuanqing, the abbot of Wulong Palace in Wudang Mountain, was promoted to Taichang Temple Minister by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in charge of various sacrificial rituals and music activities of the imperial court. Later, Emperor Yongle, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, selected Zhang Daoxian, a music and dance student who worked in the Shenguan School of the Capital, to serve as a tutor in Xuantian Yuxu Palace in Wudang Mountain to train Taoist boys to perform Taoist music.

It can be seen that the two generations of emperors first selected musical talents from the Wudang Mountain Taoist Temple to serve as officials in the Central Ritual and Music Bureau, and the other selected people from the Central Shentan Optimism to serve as Taoist music officials in Wudang Mountain, which shows that the Ming royal family attached great importance to Wudang Taoist music and dance. of favor and attention. At that time, there were more than 400 music and dance students in Wudang Mountain Taoist Temple supported by the imperial court. They were the essence of music and dance in Wudang Mountain selected by the imperial court from famous mountains across the country.

Taoist music rituals are roughly divided into monastic rituals, fasting rituals and commemorative rituals. Different ritual activities also have different aspects of clothing. In the exhibition hall on the third floor, Taoist priests' clothes and shoes, wooden fish and chimes are on display.

What to watch·Chimes given by the royal family

The imperial court of the Ming Dynasty often gave musical instruments such as golden bells and jade chimes to the Wudang Mountain Palace. The chime in the Wudang Museum was from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. This musical instrument was a gift from the royal family when the Wulong Palace in Dayue Taihe Mountain was built in the third year of the imperial edict.