Tongchu (Rites of Youthful Incipience)
A tradition no longer extant within Taoism.
Tongchu (Rites of Youthful Incipience) is recorded within Taoism and is no longer extant. Also written 童初, Rites of Youthful Incipience.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Yang Xizhen (1101–1124). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founding year in my sources. Bokenkamp attributes the Rites of Youthful Incipience to Yang Xizhen (1101–1124) at Mount Mao.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Tongchu (Rites of Youthful Incipience).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-tongchu-rites-of-youthful-incipience.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Tongchu (Rites of Youthful Incipience)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-tongchu-rites-of-youthful-incipience},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.