A Daoist Temple in a Cave COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Sheila Nagig I love the red that the Chinese use. It’s such a strong, beautiful shade of the color. All Things Chinese From Taoist point of view, deep red (China Red) is a color attracting the maximum yang qi, while the black and white reflecting the extreme yin energy, which […]
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In the Gaofeng High Summit Hill in Sichuan Province, there are 8 ridges like eight dragons looking back at the mountain peak, and over 500 aging pine trees, some as old as a thousand years, all stretching their branches towards that same apex of the mountain. There are 4 gates located in the 4 directions respectively as entrances to a […]
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Mt. Wudang, the Biggest Daoist Hub in China Daoist temples began to appear in Mt Wudang since Lao Tzu and Confucius time 2,500 years ago. But Mt. Wudang was developed into a Daoist hub hundreds years later during the Weijin South North Dynasties (魏晋南北朝) around the 3rd and the 4th centuries, the time when the story of Nirvana in Fire, […]
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Maoshan Daoist sect is one of the most mysterious Daoist schools, known as the inheritor of Supreme Purity camp (上清派) with its principles and cultivation methods explained in Sutra of Supreme Purity (上清经). The statue atop the hill behind the premises is Laozi (Lao Tse, 604 bC – 531 BC), considered as the founder of the modern Chinese Daoism. The […]
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