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Abstract The QingWei Pai was current in the Yuan and Song Dynasties .Zu Shu originated the QingWei Pai by blending four Taoist denominations, Shang-qing, Ling-bao, Tao-de, and Zheng-yi. Since late Yuan Dynasty, Qing-wei pai started to grow and disseminated to the south and the north of China. While north branch integrated with the Quan-zhen pai and was renamed "Wu-dang qing-wei pai"; the south branch still kept the original name. Taiwan’s Qing-wei pai belongs to the south system. According to my field investigation, the Taiwan’s Qing-wei pai mainly distributes in the north of Taiwan. It was brought to Taiwan by Wang Yuan ru and his teacher, Wu Zhao dong, Who followed the Nationalist Party to Taiwan and started to disseminate the Qingwei pai, therefore, Taiwan’s current QingWei Pai Taoists are all Wang Yuanru’s students. The rites of the Qingwei pai include Badu, Taochang and Fachang. The music of the rites has plenty of vavieties. Generally speaking, the rites music songs can be classified into three types- Principal part songs, Intoning, and Chanting. The principal part songs can be divided into Unison-singing and alternated-sing types. The melodies of principal part songs are mostly in regular quadruple time, almost are 4/4 beats, however, there are sometimes coloratura type melodies which change the meter from quadruple to eight-beat time. The melody is abundant. Intoning is presented by singing; the melody is free and does not have regular meter. Most of intoning is sung during incantation or Biaozhang . The melody of chanting is more steady and plain even. syllabic, and the pitch intervals within the limit of a third. After field investigation to collect music, the author tried to arrange and classify the characteristics of the melodies of QingWei Pai music, making it possible to explain the music of Taoism music of Taiwan''s QingWei Pai rituals.
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