Zhengao
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The Zhengao (真誥, Declarations of the Perfected) written in 499 CE is the Shangqing Daoist patriarch Tao Hongjing's comprehensive collection of poetry and prose from the original "Shangqing revelations", which were supposedly given to the mystic Yang Xi by a group of Daoist zhenren Perfected Ones from 364 to 370. This classic text has long been famous both as a foundational text of religious Daoism and as a brilliant exemplar of medieval Chinese poetry.
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It sits within the topics 5th-century Chinese books, 5th-century Taoism and Buddhism in China.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- religious text
- Author
- Tao Hongjing
- Main subject
- Shangqing School
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- Classical Chinese
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- 真誥
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- 眞誥
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- ''Wu''-shamanist influences
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The Zhengao (真誥, Declarations of the Perfected) written in 499 CE is the Shangqing Daoist patriarch Tao Hongjing's comprehensive collection of poetry and prose from the original "Shangqing revelations", which were supposedly given to the mystic Yang Xi by a group of Daoist zhenren Perfected Ones from 364 to 370. This classic text has long been famous both as a foundational text of religious Daoism and as a brilliant exemplar of medieval Chinese poetry.
==History==
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