Archaeological Study Of Tiandi Jiao Relics And Discussion The Relationship Between Tiandi Jiao And Wudoumi Dao

According the historical documents,the paper mainly revolves round the Tiandi Jiao Zhenmu Bottles.Charms and Seals to draw some views as follows.Firstly,the belief of Tiandi Jiao existed in all kinds of Zhenmu Bottles from the early Eastern Han Dynasty to late Eastern Han Dynasty.And Zhenmu Charms were chiefly made of star images and deformed Chinese characters,the style of which was absolutely different from the usual ones found in Sichuan.As for the seals of Tiandi Jiao,they could be classified by their contents or functions.Secondly,Tiandi Jiao was a kind of folk belief which was gradually popular in northern area in the middle and the late Eastern Han Dynasty.In the belief of Tiandi Jiao,Tiandi was the God,and Huangshen was Hades,and as the envoys of God;necromancers used the kinds of special things such as Zhenmu Bottles.Zhenmu Charms and seals in the funeral to exorcise for the dead and pray for the livings.Finally,the relationship between Wudaomi Dao and Tiandi Jiao is the absorbing one and the absorbed one.Finally both of them become the important foot-stone of Taoism after Wei and Jin Dynasties.Moreover,the relationship between Wudaomi Dao and Tiandi Jiao can be understood by social identity approach.