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Guangzhou 廣州
Guangzhou, the largest city among our field sites, has been a thriving place for urban Daoist activities. Just like in Hangzhou and Wuhan, there were both large Quanzhen monasteries (the most important of which was the Sanyuan gong 三元宮, now very active again, together with three other temples run by the Daoist association: Renwei guan 仁威觀, Chunyang gong 純陽觀 and Huang Daxian miao 黃大仙廟) and central Zhengyi temples, notably the Xuanmiao guan 玄妙觀 that had been regulating local clerics for centuries until it was destroyed during the 1920s. There were also, up to the 1930s, hundreds of service center run by Daoist families, the so-called Namo daoguan 南嘸道館, some of which have moved to Hong Kong and are active there.
Prof. Lai Chi-tim will be the main investigator of the T&T project in Guangzhou since he has already been involved for several years in working on the city’s Daoist temples, both with historical documents (archives, epigraphy) and on-site. The picture below was taken in Sanyuan gong in 2007.
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