Title of the first text: 大齋醮秘語一本 [da zhaijiao miyu yiben ]. External cover title: 良緣齋醮秘語壹部 [liangyuan zhaijiao miyu yibu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 300 folios. Date(s) clai...
Title of the first text: 授戒諸川光科 [shujie zhu chuanguang ke]. External cover title: 川光科 [chuanguang ke ]. Initiation ceremony for the ordination of the young Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 84 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清同治肆年丙寅歲春季月初三日完.
Title of the first text: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. External cover title: 調雞科壹本 [diaoji ke yiben ]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十年己乙六月上旬終筆.
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 壹本鬼? [yiben gui?]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, thi...
Title of the first text: 大齋短秘語壹部 [dazhai duan miyu yibu ]. External cover title: 諸齋亡大小短秘語一本 [zhu zhaiwang daxiao duan miyu yiben ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 100 folio...
Title of the first text: 修齋醮說醮飛章送聖三卷集 [xiuzhai jiao shuojiao feizhang songsheng sanjuanji ]. External cover title: 齋醮設醮飛章送聖科共一本 [zhajiao shejiao feizhang songsheng ke gongyiben ]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host a...
Title of the first text: 隔鬼神秘語 [ge guishen miyu ]. External cover title: 壹本隔鬼神秘語 [yibe geguishen miyu ]. Ceremony to dispel evial spirits and demons. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒廿年六月初四日抄出.
Title of the first text: 接聖大獻 [jiesheng daxian]. External cover title: 接聖大獻科 [jiesheng daxian ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar and provide an offering for the gods, with a common form. Date(s) claimed in the manu...
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 壹本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke ]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is ...
Title of the first text: 齋引朝科 [zhai yinzhao ke]. External cover title: 一本齋醮引朝科 [yiben zhaijiao yinzhao ke ]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙未年二月初四底畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 189...