What are the main festivals of Taoism?

There are many Taoist sects, and influenced by regional secular beliefs, festivals have also increased accordingly. The main festivals are as follows:

1, three meeting days. According to Lu's "Daomen Lulve", the three meeting days are the seventh day of the first lunar month, the seventh day of July and the fifth day of October. During these three days, Taoist priests must go to the local teachers, declare their family background, listen to Taoist officials, and accept the merits and demerits of the three officials to decide the order of acceptance.

2. Three yuan a day. One is called ternary section. Sanyuan refers to the three officials of heaven, earth and water, and is the main god that Wudou Midao believed in when it was first established. It is believed that the three officials control people's life and death, and they will go down to earth on specific three days in a year to test the merits and demerits of proofreaders to determine people's life span.

3. May Day. According to the ancient system of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, Taoism created the Five Days of Lara. Especially on the first day of the first month, it is still an important festival of Taoism. At that time, it was necessary to set up sacrifices to heaven and ancestors according to tradition in order to live longer.

4. Sanqing Christmas. Sanqing, as the highest god of Taoism, was established in the early Tang Dynasty. Among them, Yuanshi Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun were originally the embodiment of "Tao", with no beginning and no end. There was no birthday at all, and later Taoism explained it and gave them a birthday.

5. Jade Emperor Christmas. The belief in the Jade Emperor flourished in the Song Dynasty. The Classic Collection of Shang Gao Jade Emperor Bank has called it "Born in the Palace at noon on the 9th of Bingwu", and the Catalogue of Jade Saggers on the Birthday of the Gods written in the middle of Ming Dynasty also called the Jade Emperor born on the 9th day of the first month.

6. Christmas for the Queen Mother. The origin of the myth of the Western Queen Mother is very old. In the Ming Dynasty, the three religions called July 18th as their birthday in Search for Ji Shen and Search for the Gods, and Christmas also said "July 18th was the birthday of the Empress Dowager".

7. Dongyue Christmas. The book Search for Ji Shen, which originated in the Yuan Dynasty and was written in the Ming Dynasty, began to say that it was born on March 28th.

8. Wenchang Christmas. The second volume of Sue Ji Shen said that God Tian Xuan was "born on the third day of March". In the early Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Jade Book of Huangdao, also known as March 3rd, became one of the important festivals in Taoism.

9. Zhang Tianshi's birthday. According to Biography of Zhang Tianshi, he was born in Tianmu Mountain, Wudi, on the 15th day of the first month in Wu Jia in the 10th year of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This is an important festival.

10, Sanmaojun's birthday. "Search Ji Shen" two volumes of clouds: "San Mao Zhen Jun was born on March 18." Since then, it has been one of the important festivals.

1 1, Xu Zhenjun's birthday. The 28th day of the first month is one of the important festivals.

12, Lv Zu's birthday. April 14 is Lv Dongbin's birthday and one of the important festivals in Quanzhen Road.

13, the birthday of the founder of Chongyang. Since then,1February 22nd has been designated as Wang Shuo's birthday, which is one of the important festivals of Quanzhen Daoism.

14, Qiu Zu's birthday. The 19th day of the first month, as Qiu Chuji's birthday, is one of the important festivals of Quanzhen Daoism.

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Characteristics of Taoist festivals

1. There were few festivals in early Taoism, most of which were decided in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (mainly in the Ming Dynasty). Because of the different beliefs of different factions, the gods and ancestors they worship also have similarities and differences.

2. The "birthday" of Sanqing, the Supreme God and Jade Emperor, and the three officials with a long history and great social influence, the Queen Mother of the West, the Emperor Dongyue, the Emperor Wenchang and the Emperor Zhenwu, are all festivals celebrated by various factions.

3. The birthdays of the founders of orthodox schools such as Zhang Ling, San Mao Zhen Jun and Xu Zhen Jun, and Quanzhen Dao's Lv Dongbin, Wang Zhongyang and Qiu Chuji are festivals of various schools.

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