並列摘要
Zhao Bing was a magician from Zhejiang in the Later Han dynasty. Skilled in healing through exorcism, he was put to death by the Magistrate of Zhang' an. He was one of the earliest Daoist figures to have a biography in an official dynastic history, and in the Song dynasty he was repeatedly granted imperial titles. In central and eastern Zhejiang he became a relatively famous local divinity, and his cult remains active up to the present day. This article, through the examination of historical materials and Daoist texts as well as fieldwork, and through the consideration of a whole range of sources-such questions as Daoism, Buddhism, the role and influences of national and local societies, and the relation to Daoist exorcism-proposes to advance examination and study and to give an outline of the evolving historical position of his cult from the end of the Han to the Republican period, and finally to explore its significance.