Jinyuan Taoist Beliefs And Image Performance

The paper focuses on the frescos of YongLe Palace, and discuss the formation and image expression of founders in Quanzhen Daoism.There are four parts in this paper. The first chapter rebuild history of Yongle Palace, based on reading and recovering steles in Yongle Palace. Considering the development of QuanZhen Daoism, I divided the history of YongLe Palace into three stages, building dreariness and revival. Yongle Palace is started as the Birthplace to a local Taoist temple in the end. These could be found in inscriptions of steles.The second part of paper discusses the whole frescos of ChunYang palace, including contents and completion time of frescos. This part try to find the connection and correspondence between frescos and ancient literal resources. Some researchers tend to believe that hanging statue behind shrine in Three Purities Palace is LuDongbin. This article denied this, through discussing some of arguments。 Postscripts of Zhu Haogu's followers show the style of Zhu Haogu concluded at least two techniques of expression. The frescos' style in Yongle Palace drawing by Zhu Haogu's followers is different from other frescos drawing by them too.The third parts of paper discusses the time when finished the whole frescos in ChongYang Palace. Finding three stories in frescos, gathering three stories drawing behind shrine, there are fifty-five stories in ChongYang Palace. That might be the only example corresponding Chong Yang Zhen Ren Min Hua Tu by Li Zhichang and Shi Hongzhen in Yuan Dynasty. Through observation at ChongYang Palace, attempt to believe fresco behind shrine shows scene of QuanZhen Daoist paying religious homage to Three Purities. Additional, it shows the connection between contents of frescos and literatures of Daoism with tables in this paper. Hell heaven and Skeleton are Characteristic of ChongYang Palace. It reflected the feature of QuanZhen Daoism.The fourth part discusses the changing of immortal phylon after established in Song Dynasty. The QuanZhen daoists absorbed and improved the faith of LuDongbin. And it exerted an influence on building and spread of LuDongbin's images in later ages. Through checking setup and methods of serving immorals of Daoism Palace in Yuan Dynasty, we could find features of QuanZhen Daoism on serving immorals. Then we discuss the representational features of frescos of Daoism Master's Story. It takes examples by pattern of The Buddha story, and produces a complete pattern of Daoism Master's Story by changing and adding some plots. From frescos of Lao Zi Ba Shi Yi Hua, Chu Shun Tang, Yongle Palace, and Xuan Feng Qing Hui Tu, Daoists weaken the conflict between Buddhism and Daoism by focusing on propaganda of Daoism Master's Stories.According four parts,we finished the discussion of contents and drawing time of frescos both in ChunYang Palace and Chunyang Palace, and set a connection between the faith of Daoism Master's and its image expression. This paper exposes the complicated relationship on frescos and Daoism literatures. Frescos take example by pattern of the Buddha story, and reflect the feature of Daoism propaganda. Propagating images of Daoism Masters is a way to achieve some purposes by whom attempted to build a connection between QuanZhen Daoism and traditional Daoism, and established QuanZhen Daoism as orthodox status.