Directory 1 Life 2 Influence and Contribution 2. 1 Presiding Ceremony 2.2 Introduction of Buddhist Scriptures 2.3 Training of Buddhist Scriptures 2.4 Shaping the Characteristics of Taoist Rituals in Hong Kong 2.5 Promoting the Academic Development of Taoism 2.6 Organizing the Taoist circles in Hong Kong 2.7 Serving the Society 2.8 Overseas Hongdao 3 Commemorating 4 issues. Hou Baoyuan was born in a well-off family in Beizhen, Guixian County, Guangxi on June 13 19 14 (August 24th of the lunar calendar). He entered the local Cuicai Primary School at the age of 8, and entered the county middle school at the age of 13. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, he had to drop out of school to do business to support his mother because of his father's death, but he didn't give up studying because of this. He is still tireless in his career, and especially likes reading Taoist books. Later, he married Zhang Fengzhen and gave birth to a daughter.
According to the memory of later generations, Hou Baoyuan loved reading Taoist books when he was young. When he was in business, he set up an "Lv Zutan" above his shop to worship Lv Zu, which shows that he had already converted to Taoism. By the time he was 30, he had gone to Guangzhou, where he joined the China Daoist Zhibaotai Charity Association at Fengqingtou 10, Enning Road, Guangzhou, and studied under Ye ().
After converting to Taoism, Hou Baoyuan actively participated in local charitable activities organized by Zhibaotai, such as planning the nurseries and schools opened by Zhibaotai, and even undertook fundraising work when 1948 rebuilt the former site of Zhibaotai. According to Hou Baoyuan's memory before his death, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, his family moved to Yulin County for business, returned to his hometown after the war, and often traveled back and forth between Guangdong and Guangxi. Until the beginning of 1950, Hou settled in Hong Kong on business.
After coming to Hong Kong, it coincided with Lu Zusheng's saying that "there is an altar in the south, and then there is Purdue". Hou joined in and, together with Lu Zhizhen, Ye (,), Lu Baojing (), Yi Baoyun (Zefeng), Chen Taijing (Deming) and others, established the concept of Hong Kong Songxian. Hou went all out to actively participate in this matter, and finally set the venue at the fourth floor of No.67 Street. 1952, Geng cooperated with Lu Zhizhen, Ye and Lu Baojing, and applied to * * * for the registration of Qingsongguan Association as a legal person, which was approved.
After entering the Qingsong Pavilion, Hou lived in the pavilion, was in charge of Confucian classics and rituals, and was responsible for organizing ceremonies in the large and small Dojo. 1956 after the establishment of the Confucian classics department, Hou became the director of the Confucian classics department in Qingsong Pavilion, and devoted himself to observing the affairs of internal medicine and the Ministry.
1952 moved to the fifth floor, 200 Nathan Road, Kowloon, because the altar service was expanded and the venue was too narrow to use. However, it is still not convenient to hold large-scale Buddhist ceremonies or sacred birthdays in the new site after the relocation. In order to further expand Taoist services, in the early spring of 1960, Hou Baoyuan, who was proficient in geomantic omen, personally surveyed a place in Qilinwei, Qingshan, New Territories, and found that it was a vast garden with rich flavor, which was given by his ancestors as a "land of fragrance". He thought it could be used as a permanent Dojo, so he chose a garden of about 70,000 square meters in Qilinwei, Qingshan to expand the Qingsong Pavilion. After hard work and difficult fund-raising, the construction of Qingsongguan was finally completed in the late 1960s. In 197 1, Hou Baoyuan developed the concept of Castle Peak, and at the same time promoted the expansion of the concept site in Kowloon, bought the building of Da 'nan Street, and used the 6-storey new site as a Dojo.
In 1960s, Hong Kong Dojo was faced with the shortage of scientific instruments and students, which was not enough to cope with the increasing number of Dojo ceremonies. In view of this, Hou Baoyuan began to teach classes as apprentices, arranged to read classics twice a week, and practiced in the Qingsong Pavilion. 199 1 when the hong kong Taoist school was founded, Hou served as the principal and started a chanting class with disciple mai bingji to further train talents to learn chanting.
Hou Yisheng devoted himself to explaining Taoism. He was born in 1999 12 17 (the tenth day of the ninth lunar month) at the age of 85.
Influence and contribution: Hou Baoyuan has been in charge of the ceremony of the Buddhist Scripture of Qingsong Guanjing since 1960s, and presided over many ceremonies, such as the one founded on the birthday of Lv Zushi 1952 and the one in the Central Plains. For another example, since 1953, every month on Beidou's birthday, we have to pray for faith and chant Buddhist scriptures, and it is stipulated that disciples should recite morning and evening classes every day. Hou Baoyuan has also led Jingsheng to attend the Dharma meetings organized by other Taoist temples and charitable organizations, such as 1953 Yuen Long Pok Oi Hospital Disaster Relief Dharma Meeting Hua, 1957 Peng Yingxian Pavilion Disaster Relief Dharma Meeting and Dharma Meeting, 1958 Donghua Group of Hospitals Wanshan Garden Victory Dharma Meeting, 1960 Wanshan Garden Dharma Meeting in Wong Tai Sin, etc.
Among them, the representative Taoist Quanzhen Law Conference was held in Fanling from June 6 to 24,1986+065438+1October 65438. Hou Baoyuan is not only the chairman of the conference, but also responsible for arranging the work of each group. Another important large-scale ceremony was Luotian's righteousness to pray for world peace, protect the country and help the people, which was opened in Beijing Baiyun Temple on1September, 9931July-26th. Hou Baoyuan served as the chairman of the Committee and personally led 105 people from Gankun Road to Beijing to build a post.
Hou Baoyuan made many contributions to the development of Taoist ceremonies in Hong Kong, one of which was to introduce Buddhist scriptures collected from Taoist temples in China and other places into Hong Kong. Hou Baoyuan once lamented that after diving for many years, he often encountered scattered scriptures. Therefore, as early as the 1950 s, he began to look for the classics of scientific instruments in Hong Kong and Guangdong, and tried his best to preserve the traditions of the previous generation. At that time, he learned from some antique dealers that some classics flowed into Hong Kong from the mainland of China, and took pains to find and sort out these classics in Hong Kong.
On 1957, Hou Baoyuan found dozens of old books in Mingshan Cave, Guangzhou Sanyuangong and Xu Chong Temple in Luofushan according to the Confessions of Jade Emperor's Guilty Xifubao and Postscript of Our Bank's Tibetan Scriptures, including Confessions of Jade Emperor's Guilty Xifubao, Jade Emperor's Journey to Tibetan Scriptures and Three Yuan Gong Tongzhi Edition. In addition to these scriptures, Hou Baoyuan discovered the instruments and scriptures left by Sanyuangong in Peng Yingxian Hall in the mid-1960s and 1950s, and passed them on to more than ten disciples of Peng Yingxian Hall, including Zhou Daozhi, Shi Zhongshan and Mai Bingji.
Hou Baoyuan republished the collected scientific books in1970s. According to his own account, he republished science books because the demand for scientific instruments and books in Hong Kong Daotang increased at that time. In order to meet the needs of Taoist disciples inside and outside the temple, he republished a large number of undergraduate books. For example, Hou Baoyuan said in the preface of reprinting the Xuanmen Chaoke that it was for students to abide by discipline and had a basis. For example, in 1976, at the invitation of the Taoist Association of Hong Kong, the Qingsong Pavilion held a meeting of all saints in the next Yuan Dynasty. Hou Baoyuan said in the magazine that "the dharma altar must be a model of law and discipline, which is convenient for students to follow the discipline and love editing and publishing." From these words, it is not difficult to see Hou Baoyuan's emphasis on Confessions.
Hou Baoyuan also tried his best to help other Taoist temples develop classics and give them to Taoist temples in need, so that some Confucian classics published by Qingsongguan became common versions of Taoist temples in Hong Kong. Take the morning and evening classics circulated in Hong Kong Daotang as an example. Its original edition is the Taishang Xuanmen Classic reprinted by Qingsongguan 1969.
Hou Baoyuan also attaches great importance to the cultivation of the younger generation. From 65438 to 0966, Hou Baoyuan was entrusted by the board of directors of Qingsong Pavilion to train the students. In addition to personally explaining the classical practical methods such as singing, vernacular Chinese and incantations, he also made the classics into tapes for disciples to review outside the altar.
199 1 year, Hong Kong Taoist Institute was established, with Hou Baoyuan as the principal and Mai Bingji as the disciple, to further cultivate talents who have studied Confucian classics. Even in his later years, he did not forget to encourage his disciples to go to Beijing and ask Min Zhiting, then the president of the Chinese Taoist Association, for the skills and methods of the Dharma Association to supplement the shortcomings of the Dharma Association in Hong Kong.
Hou Baoyuan's other great contribution to the cultivation of Confucian classics talents is the use of Confucian classics students, which can be said to inherit the tradition of Guangzhou Zhibaotai, because Pan Zhiming, one of the seven founders of Zhibaotai, is a Confucian classics student. Since the church in Hong Kong began to provide religious services, the demand of believers for scientific instruments has increased day by day, resulting in a shortage of students needed for scientific instruments. At that time, the society from Hong Kong 1950 to 1960 was still dominated by men going out to work. However, if only the main road is used as an academic tool for training, it will be difficult to solve the shortage of experienced students. In view of this, Hou Baoyuan spent a lot of time talking about experienced students in the upper reaches of the concept. Later, many Taoist temples also imitated the practice of Qingsongguan, which made Kundao go to the altar and let a large number of women devote themselves to Buddhist scriptures, thus alleviating the shortage of Buddhist scriptures in Hong Kong.
To shape the characteristics of scientific musical instruments in Hong Kong Daotang, the singing method currently used in Hong Kong Daotang was actually formed after a period of exploration, and Hou Baoyuan played an important role in this process. According to Zhou, two disciples of Hou Baoyuan, Hou Baoyuan enjoys the reputation of "Jade Throat" and "King of Whispering" under the door, not only because of his beautiful voice, but also because he always speaks clearly and roundly every time, and his tone is very stable. This may be because Hou Baoyuan often watches Cantonese opera. He observed a group of old Cantonese opera singers, learned from each other's strong points, and integrated the tone color of Cantonese opera into Daotang aria, thus forming Daotang aria with Hong Kong characteristics today.
Promoting the academic development of Taoism Hou Baoyuan not only built altars everywhere on Hongdao, but also hoped to bring Taoist culture into academic circles. 1984 10 12 In June, as the director of Songqing Temple, he led all the people to Taiwan Province Province and became sisters with Taibei Zhinangong. This exercise gave Hou Baoyuan the idea of helping the Taoist community in Taiwan Province Province to establish a Taoist college. With the assistance of Gao Zhongxin and Zhang Chang, Hou Baoyuan spent a lot of money to promote the Taoist College project, and finally established the Taiwan Province Chinese Taoist College in Zhinang on 1990.
After the establishment of China Taoist Institute, Hou Baoyuan established the Hong Kong Taoist Institute in 199 1 with the assistance of Professor Mai Bingji, Professor Luo and Professor Zhang. Hou immediately gave strong support to scholars from all over the world to study Taoist culture, including supporting the professor to edit The Study of Taoist Culture, and invited a large number of scholars from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to give lectures and preach in Hong Kong, and hired many internationally renowned professors as consultants of Taoist Institute. From 65438 to 0995, in order to show his support for China Taoist College, Hou Baoyuan set up a scholarship in China Taoist College to reward diligent students and cultivate high-quality Taoist talents.
During his nine years as Dean of the Hong Kong Taoist Institute, Hou Baoyuan has hosted three large-scale academic seminars on Taoist culture, jointly organized an academic seminar on Taoism and folk religion with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and announced the establishment of the International Taoist Federation at the 1996 conference.
In addition to the above, Hou Baoyuan is also enthusiastic about the publication of Taoist books and magazines. In his early years, he supported the Dictionary of Taoism edited by Li Shuhuan, assisted the Chinese Taoist Association in publishing the Atlas of Taoist Immortals, and led the Hong Kong Taoist Institute in publishing various series and Hongdao magazine. In his later years, he sponsored Zhang Jiyu's Collected Works of Taoism in China.
Hou Baoyuan, who organized the Taoist circles in Hong Kong, devoted himself to uniting Taoist colleagues for many years. Since the 1960s, he and Zhao have jointly established the Hong Kong Taoist Federation. Later, in cooperation with Luo and Luo, we bought a venue at 1975 as a place to unite various Taoist schools in Hong Kong and develop Taoist culture. Hou Baoyuan has been the vice chairman and vice president of the association.
Serving the society Hou Baoyuan inherited the tradition of "the best is the best" of Zhibaotai. Hou Baoyuan has been involved in disaster relief, distribution of warm clothes and application of drugs in Chai Wan, He Wentian and Tiaojingling since the establishment of Qingsong Pavilion in the early 1950s. In A.D. 1960, Hou Baoyuan established a nursing home in Guanjian. At the beginning of1965-1970s, the "Night Eye House" was established in Tuen Mun Temple. Since then, western medicine donation clinics, qigong therapy clinics and dental clinics have been established in Da 'nan Street and Tuen Mun Temple. /kloc-in the 1980s, a nursing home for the elderly was opened in Songqing Houbaoyuan, and a service center for the elderly was added. During the period from 65438 to the mid-1990s, Hou Baoyuan also operated an acupuncture clinic and a dental clinic, and even donated money to the Caritas Medical Center to purchase medical equipment.
In education, Hou Baoyuan advocated "moral education", so Qing Songguan opened a completely free Songqing school in Maple Street 1957, Kowloon. Later, * * * began to provide free education, and Qingsongguan was transferred from a compulsory school to a subsidized school. 1985 Set up Taoist Songqing Kindergarten and Songqing Lakeview Kindergarten in Youai Village and Lakeview Village in Tuen Mun, set up Hong Kong Taoist Association Songqing Middle School in Xiumaoping, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, and set up Songqing Primary School in Tuen Mun. /kloc-in the 1990s, Song Qing Cui Jing Kindergarten and Song Qing Xingdong Kindergarten were successively established on Hong Kong Island, and Song Qing Houbaoyuan Middle School and Song Qing Houbaoyuan Primary School were established in Tuen Mun and Tung Chung New Towns.
Overseas Hongdao When the concept of Qingsong Pavilion in Hong Kong developed to a certain scale, Hou Baoyuan began to promote his Hongdao career overseas. Hou Baoyuan, following the sacred words of his ancestors, "spread the mysterious wind around the world", has assisted the revival and development of Taoist groups in Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province and Japan since A.D. 1970, and also built the Qingsong Pavilion in San Francisco, Canada, Sydney, Brisbane and Singapore, spreading the scientific and technological traditions of the Qingsong Pavilion overseas.
In China, since1980s, Hou Baoyuan has visited the famous mountains and temples of the motherland many times to worship the three ancestral halls of Quanzhen. In AD 1990, Hou Baoyuan promoted Qingsongguan to spend huge sums of money to rebuild the ancient view of Huanglong in Luofu Mountain, Guangdong Province. After the opening of Huanglongguan, Hou Baoyuan personally handed down the scriptures and set up a scripture class to teach Confucian classics, which contributed to the establishment of South China Taoist College in Huanglongguan on 1998. As for other temples in the Mainland, in addition to donating money through the Chinese Taoist Association, they also helped the poorer temples in the Mainland to repair their temples, and donated 5 million yuan before and after, benefiting more than 200 temples. Even in his later years, Hou Baoyuan frequently traveled between China and Hong Kong for the restoration of temples in the motherland.
In memory of Song Qing Hou Baoyuan Senior Service Center (1997), Song Qing Hou Baoyuan Primary School (1997), Song Qing Hou Baoyuan Middle School (2000) and related items, go to Baotai Qingsongguan Luofushan Huanglong Ancient Scene.