Zheng isn’t the only Taoist trying to breathe new life into China’s oldest religious tradition. The Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai, for example, also released a set of door-god portraits in 2016. That ...

After a four-year excavation, archeologists have confirmed the location of China's largest Taoist temple, built in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and used continuously until it was destroyed by fire ...

Currently there are about 9,000 Taoist temples across China, but only around 50,000 Taoists. For a country of this size, that is a negligible number. Part of the issue may be the negative ...

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Taoism emerged as a philosophy in China more than 2,000 years ago, but by the time the first Taoist temples appeared on Wudang’s slopes during the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907), it had evolved into ...

Priests can be encountered everywhere at the temple — a living reminder of the historical significance of Taoism in China and its importance to believers. An exercise known as baduanjin, a form of ...

As part of my PhD research, Taoist Luosong* told me how 300 rituals were performed for people in the temple during Zhongyuan Jie (Hungry Ghost Festival). During the same time frame, they received ...

Researchers analysed a database of 46,966 ancient trees from 5,125 Buddhist and 1,420 Taoist temples. They found that each temple preserved 7.2 ancient trees on average. Select Voice ...

Early in the afternoon Thursday, in the southern Chinese city of Suzhou, more than 50 people gathered in a Taoist temple for a 10-hour ceremony to bid farewell to one of the most influential China ...