The Daoist priests held a three-day ritual to pray for blessings and ward off disaster.
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醮 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives in the religious term 打醮 (to hold a Daoist rite) and 建醮 (to stage a temple ritual), still seen at folk festivals.
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Classical and religious vocabulary, appears in old ritual texts and at temple events, not in everyday speech.
