Zixiaogong is one of Wudang Mountain's main temples and also an active Daoist monastery that performs morning and evening rituals. The temple's main deity is Xuantian Shangdi, and the temple also celebrates festivals venerating him in the third and ninth lunar months.
 

Ninth lunar month, Wudang Mountain, 2004

Wudang Mountain, 2007.  Pilgrims from Fujian Province bring a statue of Xuantian Shangdi to be sacralized at Zixiaogong.

A visiting group of Italian martial artists photographs a local martial artist who has a private martial arts studio in Danjiangkou

Celebrating the 9th day of the 9th lunar month at a new temple that is a recreation of a Ming dynasty temple that no longer exists.
 

After the Daoist rituals had concluded, local people in Danjiangkou enthusiastically entered the shrine room in the new temple to pray.