What does Taoism mean?

There are no Taoists in Taoism. Orthodox Taoism is called Kundao. In Taoist classics, male Taoist priests are also called trunk roads, while female Taoist priests are correspondingly called Kundao. When Huang Guan refers to male Taoist priests, female Taoist priests are called female crowns accordingly.

He Guangyuan wrote at the end of Shu: "The elder of Qingzhou, an ordinary mountain, is called a Taoist, who marries a towel bottle. At that time, Zuo Jie let Huiji Wang listen to the news, collected the investigation and decided to hand it over to the distant place. " Benyuan Gaoming's "Pipa Story Five Mothers Arrive in Beijing to Know the whereabouts of my husband": [Life] Must have this portrait? [Ugly] Dare to be a Taoist? Luo Qifeng's Crazy Woman: She can point out that the bag was from Zhanggong Temple, and it was bought with seven feet of white cloth from the horse.

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Taoist priests have the difference between becoming a monk and not becoming a monk. Those who don't become monks are also called laymen. Before the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, monks were not monks, and there were no monks who had to become monks. After the establishment of Quanzhen religion in Jin Dynasty, the system of becoming a monk was formulated.

Taoists are divided into Quanzhen and Zhengyi schools.

Quanzhen Taoist is a monk, unmarried, vegetarian and lives in a Taoist temple. Men are the avenue, and women are the kundao. They are all long hair, tied in a bun at the top of their heads and can be crowned. Male Taoist priests have beards.

Orthodox Taoists can get married and eat meat. Most of them are monks who don't become monks, also called fire monks, and a few are monks. Orthodox monks who don't become monks, some are active in temples, and some are Buddhist monks without temples. Generally speaking, Taoist priests without temples usually wear vulgar clothes and live at home. Zheng Duo is a male, without long hair and beard, and his hairstyle is the same as that of a layman. When they don't wear Taoist costumes, they can't see that they are Taoists.

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