Study Of Early Tianshi Taoist Zhai-Jiao Ritual's Evolvement

Early Tianshi Taoist is one of the original forms and compositive parts of Taoism, Zhai-Jiao Ritual is the same as it. After the Religion-Reformation in Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhai-Jiao Ritual of Taoism developed to be a system.Therefore, it is important to investigate Zhai-Jiao Ritual of Early Tianshi Taoist especially its meaning and the evolvement. Formerly literates' investigations are already quite abundance, the disquisitive directions mostly concentrate on the analyze of the material rituals. But this paper will discuss the Zhai-Jiao Ritual of Tianshi Taoist in this period for seeking the respective meaning of Zhai and Jiao, uncovering the essence of Zhai-Jiao Ritual and exploring the historical causation of the separation between Zhai and Jiao.This paper studies the development and evolvement of Zhai-Jiao Ritual in this period through the temporal clue:Tianshi Taoist in Eastern Han Dynasty hasn't formed the mature Zhai-Jiao Ritual, but it has included the most essential kernel of Zhai-Jiao, Zhai and Jiao are a whole part of Fete Ritual; In the era of Western and Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tianshi Taoist inosculates Fangshi, Shangqing, Lingbao and other sects, due to this reason, Zhai-Jiao Ritual consummates gradually, but because of the differences of the Zhai and Jiao's meaning, Zhai and Jiao start to separate. After the Religion-Reformation in Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhai-Jiao Ritual of Tianshi Taoist absorbs a great deal of other rituals and becomes to be the main body of Taoism Ritual ultimately by coordinating, yet Zhai and Jiao separate from each other in this period, and become to be two independently progressing rituals.