The Twenty-Four Rules of the Heavenly TeacherThe twenty-four rules of Tianshi are as follows: Yangping, Lutang Mountain, Heming Shenshan Taishang, Liyuan Mountain, Gengchu, Qinzhong, Changli Mountain, Zhenduo, Dishang, Yongquan Mountain God, Choujing, Beiping, Benzhu, Mengqin, Pinggai, Yuntai Mountain, Kouzhi, Houcheng, Gongmu, Pinggang, Zhubo Mountain, Yuju and Beimang Mountain.
Apart from that, there were also eight grades of Traveling Rule, which were Emei Rule, Green City Rule, Taihua Rule, Huang Jin Rule, Zimu Rule, He Feng Rule, Ping Du Rule, and Qing Yang Rule. According to the size and influence of the 24 rules of the Celestial Master Sect, they were divided into the Upper Eight Rules, the Middle Eight Rules, and the Lower Eight Rules. They corresponded to the 24 seasons and combined with the 28 constellations in the sky.
In the era of chaos and poverty, the Twenty-four Rules of the Celestial Master Sect replaced the household registration system of the imperial court with the system of Taoist people's life registration under the pretext of God's blessing. They used religious morality as the code of conduct for the people. They used the method of collecting rice to replace the government's tax, gradually making the Twenty-four Rules of governance an organizational form of theocracy. At the same time, the parish advocated stabilizing prices, paying attention to honesty, setting up industries, opening up salt wells, building water conservancy projects, developing land and water transportation, developing agriculture, and solving the problem of food and clothing for the believers. In fact, it exercised the role of political power.
The Twenty-Four Rules of the Celestial Master Sect were distributed in the Bashu region. It was a religious geographical system that had the characteristics of a missionary stronghold, a place for religious activities, and an administrative region. Due to the long history, most of the relevant records were in the literature that was published later, and there was a lack of specific physical evidence. Therefore, there was limited understanding of the situation of the 24 territories, and there were many debates in the academic community about the geographical location of individual territories. However, the Twenty-Four Rules were still an important part of the sacred space of Ba Shu. They existed in many ways and were one of the important cultural origins of the grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
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