During the Eastern Han period, Daoism was slowly turning from the study of the forming a necessary base of knowledge shared only by scholars to a full scale religion with followers. Daoism appealed to the people because of it's special importance upon their freedom and it's gratefulness of nature.
Daoism borrowed some of the old nature gods and came up with some gods of it's own. Daoists were the participants of Daoism and they sent prayers to the Jade Emperor whom they worshiped sacred, where the sun rises is were they traveled to make offerings to Heaven.
In the second century AD Zhang Dalong combined the elements of the popular Daoists beliefs into a formal religion called "The way of the Celestial Master. He established on order of priests who performed rituals to drive away evil spirits and over years a number of Daoist priests grew throughout China.
The Daoists were also determined to discover the secret of living forever.
This still sounds like someone else's words.
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