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 SòngYuán Língbǎo dàfǎ corpus (KR5b0150).
Translations and research
- 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.