What are the twenty-four Taoist instruments?

Twenty-four instruments include drums, bells, scales, ropes, swords, fingers, seals, hand stoves, dragon horns, keepsakes, rosary beads, wooden fish, water bowls, clean boards, blowing dust, returning swords, ruyi, French flags, bagua mirrors, chimes and cymbals.

1, drum. Drum is an inspiring communication tool to communicate with gods. Multi-purpose, flat tambourine and other musical instruments.

2. Clock. There are four kinds of clocks in Taoist temples: big clock, newspaper clock, confession clock and emperor clock. The clock is used in the Dojo, and the big clock and the newspaper clock are used to open and close.

3. Ruler. A wooden ruler about 33cm long, 2cm wide and 1 cm thick.

4. French rope. Also known as whip, commonly known as rope. The rope is a whip, and the Mu Na is engraved with the head of a snake or a faucet, with a hemp rope or cotton rope about one meter long tied on it, forming a dragon body and a snake tail.

5. Sword. Also known as Sword, Excalibur, Divine Wind, Huijian, Lingjian, Seven-Star Sword, Qinglong Sword and Demon-slaying Sword. Seven-star sword, about 60 cm long, made of iron and mahogany.

6. mm-hmm Also known as "one" or "horn", there are tools made of bronze or wood, but usually bamboo roots are cut into a half-moon shape and painted red. Its length varies, which is about 3 cm long and 2 cm wide, and there are 15 horizontal lines on the convex surface. It is said that the twelfth floor represents twelve o'clock, and the other three floors are three realms.

7. France and India. Taoism attaches great importance to carving materials, mostly woodcut, but woodcut is better than finding holes and dates. Bronze seals are also used by many people, and the words printed on them are almost all immortal titles; Such as "Tao, Classics and Teachers", are collectively called "Three Treasures", that is, the inheritance of "Sanqing".

8, hand stove. The use of Gui Jun originated from the ancient irrigation ceremony. The initiation of the altar ceremony is that the Taoist priest holds a stove to burn incense for the ceremony.

9. Dragon Horn. Also known as spirit horn, horn, etc. The materials are horn, tin horn and aluminum horn. The horn is engraved with the Big Dipper, Nandou, or the words Sun and Moon.

10, token. Khufu originated from the ancient army or called Leiling and Wulei Sect. This card is made of jujube, and it is best to use Leibi jujube carving token.

1 1, rosary. Ge Xianweng used prayer beads as a count of chanting holy names when chanting scriptures, and later wore them as a protective thing.

12, Muyu. Its shape is round like a fish, so it is called a wooden drum, which is used for chanting and beating in the altar. There are two kinds of wooden fish, the big wooden fish is placed on the left side of the table, opposite to Zhong Qing, and the small wooden fish is played in the hand during the sacrifice.

13, water bowl. Taoist rituals are used to hold holy water, commonly known as water purification bowls, brass or bamboo products.

14, clean board. Originally intended to serve the Sanqing imperial edict, it was an instrument used to issue orders.

15, blowing dust. Also known as dusting, dusting and tail brushing, it is a tool or vessel with animal hair or filiform linen attached to the front end of the handle.

16, Gui Jian. Also known as the sword, water or hand board, it is about 50 cm long, 5 cm wide and 5 mm thick. The upper end is slightly curved and narrow, and it is painted with patterns.

17, ruyi. Ruyi often has glossy ganoderma grain, cirrus grain and heart-shaped grain symbolizing auspiciousness. Among the statues in Taoist temples, there is a Buddha holding his hand like an image.

18, French flag. The flag used in Taoism is generally triangular, with a yellow face, a toothed red edge or a white edge around it, and a yellow-red ribbon on it.

19, Eight Diagrams Mirror. Bagua mirror is frequently used in Feng Shui Bureau, and it is also one of the important instruments of Taoism.

20. Qing Shan Qing is a small Qing placed on the warp, which is generally used to connect the boards and play "Tianzun".

2 1, cymbal The etymology says: cymbals are also Chinese musical instruments. Zhou Li stopped the drums with a gold cymbal. It's called Xiao pheasant. It's used by the pagoda family. It's out of the Western Regions. Cymbals, or bronze helmets, are musical instruments of barbarians in the western regions.

22, copy the ghost stick. Wooden, rod-shaped, engraved with various symbols.

23, teacher knife. One is a short sword made of brass, with a blunt tip and an oval front end, and copper coins or small iron rings are strung on the hilt.

24, lightning strike wood. Where the tree was struck by lightning, the piece of wood that was cut down was called lightning strike wood.