Notable Taoist temples: the Dongyue Temple in Beijing, Shanghai's White Cloud Temple and City God Temple, the Shangqing Palace in Jiangxi, Wong Tai Sin in Guangzhou.
An introduction to the Shifang Yuan, or Jinque Palace, in Luquan, Hebei, the province's only Taoist public monastery: its rebuilding in the Kangxi era and possible Yuan origins, the halls along its central axis, its 300-year-old wintersweet, thousand-year-old Tang cypress, and earthquake stele.
An illustrated tour of the Chisong Palace (Wong Tai Sin Temple) in Panyu, Guangzhou: its founding in Daling Village in the late Qing and its 2013 rebuilding and renaming, its gourd-shaped Tang-style layout, its main halls, the story of Huang Chuping, and its statues of the lunar-mansion star lords and the Three Pure Ones.
An introduction to Shanghai's White Cloud Temple, seat of the Shanghai Taoist Association and a Quanzhen Longmen temple: its founding by Master Xu Zhicheng in 1882, its moves and naming, its halls and deities, its daily religious life, and its place in Shanghai Taoism.
An introduction to Beijing's Dongyue Temple, built by imperial order in the Yuan dynasty by Zhang Liusun and Wu Quanjie: its chief deity, the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak, its halls along the central axis, its famous clay figures of the Seventy-Six Departments, its forest of steles, and its role as the Beijing Folk Custom Museum.
An introduction to the Great Shangqing Palace on Mount Longhu, ancestral court of Zhengyi Taoism where the Celestial Masters taught and conferred registers: its imperial patronage through the dynasties, its famous titles, the vast site excavated since 2014 and its finds, and its surviving sights.
An introduction to the Shanghai City God Temple, the city's most important Zhengyi temple: its history since a Ming-dynasty magistrate converted the Jinshan Shrine, its three City Gods Huo Guang, Qin Yubo, and Chen Huacheng, its halls and giant abacus, its temple fairs, and the life of Qin Yubo.