Among a multitude of village ritual associations on the Hebei plain, I chose Gaoluo as focus for an in-depth historical ethnography. Important context is to be found in our fieldnotes on similar groups nearby, now in the new Menu under Hebei.

We might start with the transmission from Buddhist and Daoist temples in Beijing, Tianjin, and south, articles on which are listed in

• Three baldies and a mouth-organ.

A lengthy introduction to the whole phenomenon of village ritual groups is

• The Hebei plain: village associations.

Posts on the ritual life of particular villages in the region include

• Suburban Beijing
• Bazhou
• Langfang
• The Houshan Daoists
• The Houtu precious scroll
• Another village pantheon: Liujing
• Xiongxian
• The Baiyangdian lake
• Xushui

For Tianjin municipality, see

• Folk ritual of Tianjin, and its soundscapes
• Jinghai
• Dharma-drumming associations of Tianjin
• Tianjin: a folk Buddhist ritual group.

See also

• Funerals in the Yixian–Laishui region
• Nuns of rural Hebei
• Buddhist ritual of Chengde.