Contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Maps and Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Terms used in the text xv
1 A well-kept secret 1
1.1 Religious practice; 1.2 Daoists of north China;
1.3 Rituals, jiao, and Quanzhen/Zhengyi; 1.4 Fieldwork on
‘religious music’; 1.5 Other sources; 1.6 Sects; 1.7 Time-frame
Part One: Singing from a different hymn-sheet: north and
central Shanxi
2 North Shanxi 35
2.1 Yanggao; 2.2 Elsewhere in north Shanxi; 2.3 Yangyuan
3 North–central Shanxi 65
3.1 Hunyuan; 3.2 Xinzhou; 3.3 The Wutai area;
3.4 Occasional rituals
Part Two: Temple–lay connections: south Shanxi and south Hebei,
Shaanxi and Gansu
4 South Shanxi and south Hebei 85
4.1 South Shanxi; 4.2 South Hebei
5 Shaanxi 95
5.1 Shaanbei; 5.2 Changwu
6 Gansu 107
6.1 Zhangye; 6.2 Jingtai
Part Three: Just can’t get the staff: the central Hebei plain
Introduction: Ritual associations on the Hebei plain 117
7 Daxing: the Liangshanpo transmission 131
7.1 The Liangshanpo Daoists; 7.2 Village transmissions;
7.3 Buddhist-transmitted groups; 7.4 A Buddhist and
Daoist funeral; 7.5 Langfang
8 Bazhou and Jinghai 145
8.1 Sheng tuners; 8.2 The Chenghuangmiao in Gu'an;
8.3 Other temples practising folk ritual; 8.4 Zhangzhuang;
vi In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China
8.5 Gaoqiao; 8.6 Other nearby groups; 8.7 Jinghai and the
eastern area
9 The western area: Houshan and the Houtu cult 165
9.1 Houtu; 9.2 The Houshan Daoists; 9.3 The local ritual network;
9.4 Houshan before and after Liberation; 9.5 Recent observances
on Houshan; 9.6 Other Houtu temples; 9.7 Other ritual groups;
9.8 Funeral practice; 9.9 Some major rituals becoming rare;
9.10 Conclusion
Conclusion
10 It’s Daoism, but not as we know it 205
10.1 Joining Up the Dots, Chasing the Red Herring;
10.2 Daoist ritual in ‘north’ and ‘south’ China
Appendices
1 Ritual practice in Beijing and Tianjin cities 219
2 Some ritual songs in central Hebei 233
3 Precious scrolls of central Hebei 237
4 Some sites for living folk ritual activity in Shanxi 263
Bibliography 265
Glossary–Index 277
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