Li Manshan doing paperwork for Hoisting the Pennant ritual, 2003 https://stephenjones.blog/the-film/

Li Qing leading the Pardon, 1991. My first visit.

*UPDATED!*

After the latest screening of my film, it’s worth giving links to some of the major posts (so far!) on the Li family Daoists—even with the subheads in my category for them (film, on tour, rituals, updates, vignettes) it’s easy to get lost…

The basic material is

• the film (including the famous joke), and
• the book

and the collection of images, ritual paintings, documents, and maps under this menu.

On ritual, see e.g.

• Ritual change in north Shanxi (itself a roundup)
• Presenting Offerings
• the Invitation

Ritual painting (detail), Artisan the Sixth, early 1980s https://stephenjones.blog/god-images-old-and-new-1/

Among the vignettes: for Yanggao, try

• Ritual paintings of Li Peisen
• Murals of Artisan the Sixth

and a whole series of updates from March–April 2018 (see archives in the sidebar), led by

• My stay with Li Manshan,

and including

• The cult of Elder Hu
• In search of temples

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as well as their continuing activities while under lockdown earlier this year:

• Coronavirus 4.

Other posts (reflecting material from my book) include

• this post on Li Qing and the sheng mouth-organ
• Li Qing’s sojourn in a state troupe
• Testing the waters
• Recopying ritual manuals
• A flawed funeral.

On tour, you can start with

• my diary of our French trip,

part of a whole series from May 2017, hotly followed by

• Li Bin’s diary on his return,

as well as

• Italy 2012
• Germany 2013.

Also useful are articles on other characters in Yanggao, such as

• other Daoists
• a series on women: Daoist families; sectarians and mediums; and singers
• personalities: a sectarian, village elders, shawm players, a vagrant, and local worthies—not least
• unsung local hero Li Jin
• A distant Daoist connection.

Shanxi sect https://stephenjones.blog/2017/06/14/women-of-yanggao-23-sectarians-and-mediums/

And there’s much, much more to explore if you use those subheads, and keep clicking away on the links within the posts…