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Ming Dynasty imperial Xuanjiao movement

The whole true rhyme of Taoist music from various places, Beijing Baiyun Temple, Suzhou Longhu Mountain

Wudang Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Shanghai Laoshan Mountain

Sanqin, Sichuan, Northeastern Taiwan, Hong Kong

Taoist Science The musical instruments used in rituals in the early days were only bells, chimes, drums and other percussion instruments. Later, instruments such as blowing (wind instruments), pulling (stringed instruments), and playing (plucked string instruments) were gradually added. There are certain differences in the musical instruments used by Quanzhen Taoism and Zhengyi Taoism. Quanzhen Taoism mainly uses wind instruments and ritual instruments, plus a small number of stringed and plucked instruments. Jiangnan Zhengyi Taoism has always attached great importance to Zhaijiao music, and the instruments used are many and complete, including : flute, suona, sheng, erhu, pipa, dulcimer, sanxian, etc.

The magic weapon is a symbolic tool used by Taoists to display magic power during religious ceremonies. The ritual instruments in the temple are usually displayed on the ritual instrument racks on the altar. There are two types of commonly used magical instruments: one is for worshiping gods, paying homage to ancestors, and for exorcising and suppressing evil, such as court slips, Ruyi, jade albums, jade seals, swords, command flags, command arrows, and imperial edicts. , canopy ruler, altar wood; the other type is various striking instruments, commonly used are large cymbals, small cymbals, large cymbals, small cymbals, clangs, hand bells, large and small wooden fish, large drums, small drums, and large iron chimes , big bronze chime, small bronze chime. The instruments used in Taoist ritual music are mainly striking instruments.