Who is Xiao Tianshi [part.2]

Hello guys! It is great to talk to guys again!

Last week we talk about Xiao Tianshi's childhood and how he started to set foot on Taoism.Today I am gonna introduce what was happened when Xiao Tianshi went to Taiwan and how he spread and developed Taoism in Taiwan.

Chiang Kai-shek

Taiwan

In year 1949, Xiao Tianshi was focused to go to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek（蒋介石） and his Chinese Nationalist Party（国民党）and finally he settled down in Taibei（台北) as his second hometown. Because Xiao Tianshi afraid Chinese Communist Party(共产党) would destroy all his collection about Taoism, he used all his human resources to help him carried several heavy boxes of his Taoism collection and classics to Taiwan before Communist Party came.

Dao Hai Xuan Wei

After Xiao Tianshi settled down in Taibei, he immediately began to concerted all his energy on research and spread Taoism. During that time, he wrote and published several important books about both Confucianism and Taoism. Dao Hai Xuan Wei(道海玄微) is one of the most important Taoist books he wrote at that period. Xiao Tianshi put his knowledge about what is Taoism, why is Taoism and how to be a Taoist all in Dao Hai Xuan Wei and made this book another masterpiece of modern Taoism.

Dao Zang Jing Hua

Besides wrote books about Taoism, Xiao Tianshi also established another new publishing house in Taibei called Ziyou(自由) in 1953. The Ziyou publishing house basically re-published all the books Xiao Tianshi brought from mainland of China and integrated all these books into one series, Dao Zang Jing Hua(道藏精华). Dao Zang Jing Hua includes tons of cherished books about Taoism especially Dao Zang(道藏) from Ming Dynasty and modern Taoist scholars' articles like Xiao Tianshi himself. When Chiang Kai-shek went to Taiwan with his army, there wasn't any authoritative work about Taoism, and Xiao Tianshi's Dao Zang Jing Hua really help Taoist people in Taiwan to research and heritage Taoism.

Xiao Tianshi put most of his energy in Ziyou publishing house in the rest of his life and after he died in 1986, his son took over Ziyou publishing house and continuously publishing books about Taoism until today.

Let look at this great Taoist master one more time and next time I am gonna to introduce some Xiao Tianshi's Theory about Taoism! See you!