Editing Jin dynasty (1115–1234) (section)

==== Taoism ====
A significant branch of [[Taoism]] called the [[Quanzhen School]] was founded under the Jin Dynasty by [[Han Chinese]] [[Wang Zhe]] (1113–1170), founder of formal congregations in 1167 and 1168. He took the nickname of [[Wang Chongyang]] (Wang "Double Yang"), and his disciples were retrospectively known as the "seven patriarchs of Quanzhen". The [[Ci (poetry)|''ci'' poetry]] that characterized Jin literature was tightly linked to Quanzhen: two-thirds of the ''ci'' poetry written in Jin times was composed by Quanzhen Taoists.

[[File:Jade ornament grapes jin dynasty shanghai museum 2004 07 22.jpg|thumb|[[Jade]] ornament with flower design, Jin dynasty, [[Shanghai Museum]]]]
[[File:Jin gold plates.JPG|thumb|Chinese gold plates and a chalice from the Jin Dynasty's Zhongdu]]
[[File:Jin Tomb with Stage Scene (10108606933).jpg|thumb|Jin tomb with stage scene]]
The Jin state sponsored an edition of the [[Taoist Canon]] that is known as the ''Precious Canon of the Mysterious Metropolis of the Great Jin'' ({{zhi|c=大金玄都宝藏|p=Dà Jīn Xuándū Bǎozàng}}). Based on a smaller version of the Canon printed by [[Emperor Huizong of Song|Emperor Huizong]] (r. 1100–1125) of the Song, it was completed in 1192 under the direction and support of [[Emperor Zhangzong]] (r. 1190–1208).{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=291}} In 1188, Zhangzong's grandfather and predecessor [[Emperor Shizong of Jin|Shizong]] (r. 1161–1189) ordered for the Song Canon woodblocks to be transferred from the Jin southern capital Kaifeng (the former Northern Song capital) to the central capital's "Abbey of Celestial Perpetuity" ({{zhi|c=天长观|p=Tiāncháng Guān}}), on the site of what is now the [[White Cloud Temple]] in Beijing.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=291}} Other Taoist writings were also moved there from another abbey in the central capital.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=291}} Zhangzong instructed the abbey's superintendent Sun Mingdao (孙明道) and two civil officials to prepare a complete Canon for printing.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=291}} After sending people on a "nationwide search for scriptures" that yielded 1,074 [[Fascicle (book)|fascicles]] of text that had not been included in the Huizong edition of the Canon and also securing donations to fund the new printing, Sun Mingdao proceeded to have the new woodblocks cut in 1192.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|pp=291–92}} The final print consisted of 6,455 fascicles.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=292}} Despite records that the Jin emperors offered copies of the ''Canon'' as gifts, no surviving traces of the ''Canon'' had been found as of 2008.{{sfn|Boltz|2008|p=292}}