Jīnlù zǎocháo yí 金籙早朝儀
Morning-Audience Liturgy of the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
The fifth of the Dù Guāngtíng Jīnlù 金籙 cycle (KR5b0167–KR5b0181) and the first of the three daily cháo 朝 (audience) liturgies of the Jīnlù fast: matin (KR5b0171), midday (KR5b0172), and vesper (KR5b0173) — all three transmitted in a single fascicle as 三儀同卷軆三 (“three liturgies in one fascicle, Tǐ 3”). The matin audience presents the morning zòubiǎo 奏表 memorial to the celestial bureau on each day of the multi-day Jīnlù rite.
Abstract
Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 994–996, entry by John Lagerwey). The three-fold cháo is the daily ritual core of any developed Daoist zhāi: each of the multi-day rite’s days repeats the three cháo sequence in turn. The morning audience opens with the cháoyīn 朝音 hymn (echoing KR5b0161 Luótiān dàjiào zǎocháo’s diction in close parallel — evidence of the common Tang liturgical idiom), proceeds through the call-down of the Sānwǔ gōngcáo, the qǐng 請 invocations, the presentation of biǎo memorials, and the huíxiàng dedication.
The text exemplifies the developed late-Tang court-Daoist diction. Its diction is more elaborate than the parallel Luótiān dàjiào cycle, with sustained four-character fù-rhythmic verses and a fuller invocation roster (extending through the Sānqīng sānjìng to the zhūzhēn shàngshèng). The text became the template for the equivalent cháo rites in the Sòng-Yuán Língbǎo dàfǎ corpus (KR5b0150).
Translations and research
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- Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 2: 994–996 (DZ 487, entry by John Lagerwey).
- Verellen, Franciscus. Du Guangting (850–933). Paris, 1989.
- Lagerwey, John. Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History. New York: Macmillan, 1987.