Faults And Construction: Jingming Dao's History And Literature

The research on Jingming Dao can be traced back about a hundred years ago. Recently, the works in the field have covered most of the aspects already. And the facts of the history of Jingming Dao have been found out and reconstructed. But there are also many problems in those researches. The most important is both of the fundamental documents and the works of other research field beyond religion study have got no much attention, which causes some but false. Based on the collecting and amending or researching of the fundamental documents, this dissertation tries to solve the problems which the past omit or misunderstood, by means of cross-disciplinary. This dissertation includes 7 chapters and 4 appendixes. Chapter 1 is the reviews on the field of Jingming Dao's research. Chapter 2 tries to reconstruct the religious and social life of Zhou Fangwen and the birth and death of his Jingming Dao in the first years of South Sung Dynasty. Chapter 3 is focused on the idea and behaviors in pursuit of the orthodoxy. Chapter 4 includes two parts. The first tries to reconsider the historical meaning of Shier Zhenjun Zhuan, by amending the text with almost all the important editions of Taiping Guangji available for us today. The second tries to figure out how the hagiographies of Xu Xun were accepted by the daoist and the people outside the church. Chapter 5 tries to analysis the illustration tradition of Xu Xun, Patriarch of Jingming Dao, by studying texts in or beyond the Daoist Canon, such as Xu Jingyang Shiji Tu, and the relationship between Xu Taishi Zhenjun Tu Zhuan and Xu Zhenjun Xian Zhuan. Chapter 6 tries to clarify the relationship between Ruyi Danfang and Dingyi Shenfang, by checking the text with the development of the Jingming Dao and serious epidemics of the early Southern Song. Chapter 7 includes three parts. The first tries to reconsider the history of Xiao Dao before the coming of Jingming Dao in South Sung Dynasty. The second tries to reconsider the relationship between Jingming Dao's societies and Yulong Wanshougong, the so-called birthplace of Jingming Dao, in Sung and Yuan Dynasty. The last makes clear about the orthodoxy of daoist claimed for Jingming in the early Ming Dynasty, and gives a simple discuss on the Jingming Dao movement since the middle ages of Ming Dynasty. Appendix 1 is a bibliography on the primitive source related to Jingming Dao. Appendix 2 is a collection of notes on the sacred documents collected in Daoist Canon. Appendix 3 is the amended text of Xiaodao Wu Xu Er Zhenjun Zhuan, also collected in Daoist Canon. Appendix 4 is a collection of documents of stone memorials.