清靜) Being adept (zhūshàn 諸善) Being desireless (wúyù 無欲) Knowing how to stop and be content (zhī zhǐzú 知止足) Yielding and withdrawing (tuīràng 推讓) Rituals Ancient Chinese religion made much use of sacrifices to gods and ancestors. This could include slaughtered animals, such as pigs and ducks, or fruit. The Daoist Celestial Master Zhang Daoling rejected food and animal sacrifices to the gods. Today, many Daoist Temples reject animal sacrifice. Sacrifices to the deities remains a key element of Daoist rituals however. There are various kinds of Daoist rituals, which may include presenting offerings, scripture reading, sacrifices, incantations, purification rites, confession, petitions and announcements to the gods, observing the ethical precepts, memorials, chanting, lectures and communal feasts. On particular holidays, like Qingming festival, street parades take place. These are lively affairs that involve firecrackers, the burning of hell money, and flower-covered floats broadcasting traditional music. They also variously include lion dances and dragon dances; human-occupied puppets (often of the "Seventh Lord" and "Eighth Lord"), gongfu and palanquins carrying images of deities. The various participants are not considered performers, but rather possessed by the gods and spirits in question. Ethical precepts Taking up and living by sets of ethical precepts is another important practice in Daoism. By the Tang dynasty, Daoism had created a system of lay discipleship in which one took a set of ten Daoist precepts. The first five Daoist precepts are identical to the Buddhist five precepts (which are to avoid: killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying, and intoxicants like alcohol.) The other five were a set of five injuctions: (6) I will maintain harmony with my ancestors and family and never disregard my kin; (7) When I see someone do good, I will support him with joy and delight; (8) When I see someone unfortunate, I will support him with dignity to recover good fortune; (9) When someone comes to do me harm, I will not harbor thoughts of revenge; (10) As long as all beings have not attained the Dao, I will not expect to do so myself.Apart from these common ethical precepts, Daoist traditions also have larger sets of precepts which are often reserved for ordained priests or monastics. Divination and magic A key part of many Daoist traditions is the practice of divination. There many methods used by Chinese daoists including: I Ching divination, Chinese astrological divination, feng shui (geomantic divination) and the interpretation of