The Taoist Ritual Tradition of the Zhengyi School in the New Territories

Zhengyi Taoist priests conducting a ritual in front of the effigy of “White Impermanence” at the decennial Jiao Festival of Kam Tin Heung, Yuen Long. Zhengyi Taoist priests reciting the “Memorial of the List of Villagers to the Heaven” at the decennial Jiao Festival of Kau Yeuk (Alliances of Nine) in Sha Tin Heung. A Zhengyi Taoist priest conducting a ceremony to pray for divine blessings after the re-construction of Shek Wu Hui, Sheung Shui in 1964. Zhengyi Taoist priests conducting Jiao rituals at Kat Hing Wai, Kam Tin. Before the construction of the Plover Cover Reservoir in Shuen Wan, Tai Po, in 1966, Zhengyi Taoist priests were invited to conduct an ancestral worship ceremony for the relocation of the villages.