Shi Tian's ancestor Zhang Daoling was the founder of Shitian Road. According to Taoist records, on the seventh day of the first month of the first year of Han Yongshou, Taishang Laojun went down to He Mingshan Mountain in the middle of Shu to teach Taoist scriptures to spread teaching methods. Zhang Lu, the grandson of Hou Daoling, was rewarded by an official position when Cao Cao made an expedition to Bashu. After he went to the mainland, tens of thousands of Taoist disciples in Shi Tian were placed in Chang 'an, Luoyang and Yecheng by Cao Cao. Shi Tian Taoism began to spread in mainland China, and many nobles joined it, such as Wang Xizhi, whose ancestors believed in Shi Tian Taoism from the Han and Wei Dynasties.
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Kou in the Northern Dynasty and Lu Dui in the Southern Dynasty reformed Daoism.
Kou was born in a famous family, and his ancestors believed in Taoism. He studied Taoism since childhood, followed Taoist priests to Huashan Mountain, and finally chose Songshan Mountain as a missionary place, becoming the leader of Taoism in northern Shi Tian during the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Sixteen Countries. He abolished the original Taoist practice of giving liquor to officials privately, and the hereditary system of some Taoist teachers in Shi Tian. He called for meritocracy, abolished the original 24 rules and names of Taoism in Shi Tian, and stipulated that believers should not change their official positions at will, and Taoist officials should first inspect their disciples for three years. He has re-enacted the Regulations on Religious Activities, abolished the taxes on admission fees, treatment fees and other rice rental fees, and stipulated that from now on, ... widex citizens will throw away 30 pieces of paper every year, one pen, one tube and one ink. Kou Qian-zhi taught Taoist believers to observe the precepts of monasticism and earnestly worship fasting in order to become immortals. Later generations called Shitian Road after Kou Qianzhi's transformation as Xinshitian Road or Shi Tian North Road.
Lu was born in Lushi family, a famous aristocratic family in the south of the Yangtze River. He made great contributions to the development of Taoism. At that time, in order to get rid of the false and keep the true, he searched for Taoist scriptures everywhere, covering half of China from Hunan in the south to Emei and Qingcheng in the west. He compiled Lingbao Jing and Lingbao Mu Jing. When compiling the latter, Lingbao Sutra was divided into twelve categories: three holes and four auxiliary ones. Later, Taoist scriptures were developed and formed on this basis. Lu formulated and perfected Taoist commandments and fasting ceremonies, and sorted out a set of relatively complete regulations. After the unification, standardization and compilation of Lu Dui, Tao has been further enriched and improved in form and content. Later generations called his Tao South Road, as opposed to Kou's North Road.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Taoism flourished, and the orthodox religion, namely Shi Tian Taoism, gradually merged with other schools. Song Zhenzong once summoned Zhang Zhengsui, the 24th generation Shi Tian, and named him Mr. Zhang Keda, the 35th generation Shi Tian. From then on, until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, almost every generation of Shi Tian was crowned with this title. In Song Huizong, Zhang Jixian, the 30th generation Shi Tian, is highly respected. The imperial court built a Taoist worship view for him near the capital, and the supernatant view of Longhushan Camp was upgraded to Shangqing Zhengyi Palace. Since Zhang Keda was granted the power to take charge of various factions in Fu You by Song Lizong, orthodoxy has gained the dominant position of Taoism in Fu You.
Zhengyi also had honor in the Yuan Dynasty. In the 13th year of Zhiyuan (A.D. 1276), Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu summoned Zhang Zongyan, the 36th generation of Shi Tian, invited him to dinner, and gave him a jade lotus crown, a gold seamless suit and a silver seal, so that he could lead Taoism in the south of the Yangtze River. The next year, he was named a missionary, a god and a real person. Since then, Zhengtianshi has been named as a real person by the Yuan rulers. Zhang Sicheng, the 39th generation of Shi Tian, was established as the founder of Chongde Zhengyi in Yiyuan in the second year of Taiding (A.D. 1325), and was authorized to take charge of the national Taoist affairs. In the Yuan Dynasty, Shi Tianfu of Longhu Mountain had great power: he could suggest the appointment and dismissal of Taoist officials and Taoist temple managers from all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, propose the funding supply and staffing of the new Taoist temple to the emperor, and even directly give orders, that is, Taoist identity.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, gave Zhang, the 42nd generation of Zhengtianshi, a normal real person. He also issued a letter to let Zhengtianshi take charge of Taoism in the country for generations. From then on, to the 52nd generation of Zhang Yingjing, except the 50th generation of Zhang Guoxiang, all generations of Shi Tian were named after real people. Zhang Yuchu, as the leader of Taoism in China, wrote a volume of Ten Rules of Daomen, expounding the problems such as the movement of Taoist sects and the repair of temples.
During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Zheng He gradually declined. 19 12 years, Zhang, the sixty-second founder, established the Taoist Association of the Republic of China in Shanghai, and only established the Shanghai branch.