Suzhou Daoist priest of the Ming–Qing transition who founded the Qionglong Mountain lineage, ran the Xuanmiao Temple and compiled ritual books such as Zhaitian that still set the norm for its music.
Mural guide
Mural of the cultural record “Daoist Ritual Music”, which this person is tied to.
Shi Daoyuan, named Daoyuan and called the Iron Bamboo Daoist, was from Hengtang in Wu county, Suzhou. Ordained young at the Chaozhen Temple, he learned the Five Thunder rites at nineteen from Xu Yanzhen of Longhu Mountain and later settled on Qionglong Mountain, where he founded his own lineage. In 1658 he received an honorific Daoist title, and he afterwards managed the Xuanmiao Temple, repairing its halls of the Three Pure Ones and the Thunder Lord. He died in 1678. The ritual books he compiled, such as Zhaitian, together with the Juntian miaoyue revised by Cao Xisheng in the Jiaqing reign, still govern the Zhengyi ritual music of the Xuanmiao Temple.
Became a Daoist in childhood and later managed the Yuanmiao Temple
Early Qing
Shi Daoyuan left home as a child and became a Daoist at the Chaozhen Temple in Suzhou. He studied under Xu Yanzhen of Mount Longhu and received the Five Thunder rites, with which he was said to command spirits, and prayed for the people without taking payment. He later moved to Mount Qionglong to practice morning and night, took charge of the Yuanmiao Temple, restored its halls of the Three Pure Ones and the Thunder Lord, and died of illness in the mountain temple.
Ming
Qing