In this new Menu, I’ve assembled material on the Li family Daoists (Upper Liangyuan village, Yanggao county, north Shanxi), including

• My film Li Manshan: portrait of a folk Daoist (with sub-menu)
• My book Daoist priests of the Li family
• To complement The film and The book, The T-shirt.

For a plethora of posts, I refer you to

• The Li family Daoists: a roundup—also under sidebar category Li family, with vignettes and updates on their ritual life at home and on tour.

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I’ve also created a sub-menu here for Shanxi: other ritual groups, including

• Shanxi, summer 1992
• Shuozhou and Yingxian
• Tianzhen
• Guangling
• Datong county
• Yanggao: other groups (useful supplementary background for my study of the Li family Daoists)
• Hunyuan (this makes an intriguing case. While apparently a recent conversion from Orthdox Unity to Complete Perfection Daoism, the picture is more complex; but there is a certain aspiration to “national” values here)
• Xinzhou
• Zuoyun
• Ekou
• Southwest Shanxi.

For north Shanxi, see also

• Tomb decoration, ancient and modern.