The supreme deities worshipped by the Shangqing sect are the Primordial Emperor and the Supreme Lord of the Tao. The main classics of the Shangqing sect include the “Shangqing Dadao Zhenjing” and “Huangting Jing,” and the “Shangqing Dadao Zhenjing” is the successor and development of the “Huangting Jing.” The “Huangting Jing” is a classic of Taoist teachings and medicine that combines health preservation and cultivation. and medical health preservation, and the cultivation of the soul. It describes the human body's five senses, five internal organs, and six internal organs in seven-syllable rhymes, and further promotes the images and functions of the eight gods and twenty-four gods of the body. Constantly reciting the names of the gods in the classics and thinking about the images of the gods can eliminate disasters and diseases, not be afraid of wolves, tigers, and leopards, and be able to keep the internal organs and the organs are at peace, but the old age is extended. The content of its cultivation includes breathing, refining essence and refining qi, and recording various techniques, but the main content is still to preserve the mind and preserve the spirit as the main content, that is, to preserve the mind and preserve the spirit and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the spirit and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the spirit and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the preservation of the mind and the In fact, in the history of the development of the Shangqing Sect, it was Yang Xi, Xu Mi and Xu Xie who developed and spread the Shangqing Jing system. Yang Xi, whose courtesy name was Xi He, was born in the fifth year of the Xianhe reign of the Jin Cheng Emperor [330], a native of Wu in the Eastern Jin, and later moved to Jurong, Jiangsu, where he studied Taoism in Maoshan. He was kind and generous, intelligent and studious, and loved reading the classics and history as a young man. , and the senior historian Xu Mi recommended him to Emperor Jianwen as a court official. After Jianwen ascended the throne, he never saw him again. In the fifth year of Emperor Yonghe [349], he was awarded the “Tiger and Leopard Talisman Made from Ox Bezoar,” and the following year, he received the “Five Talismans of the Spirit Treasure” from Liu Pu, the eldest son of Lady Wei. In the second year of Emperor Xingning [364], [364], Lady Wei also gave him the “Shangqing Jing” and other Taoist classics, and also wrote them in clerical script and passed them on to Xu Mi and Xu Jiao. In the 11th year of the Taiyuan reign of the Jin Xiaowu Emperor [368], he was immortalized and was honored as the second-generation patriarch by the Shangqing sect of Taoism. During the Xuanhe reign of the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously honored as the “Dongling Xianhua Zhide Zhenren.” The Shangqing sect was passed down to the ninth-generation master Tao Hongjing during the Southern Dynasties Liang and Chen. He lived in seclusion on Mount Mao and made it his ancestral temple. He inherited the Shangqing sect's Taoist tradition and founded the Mao Mountain sect, which made the Shangqing sect on Mount Mao continue to grow and develop, and it has a prominent position in the history of Taoism and has a profound influence.

  上清派信奉的最高尊神是元始天王和太上大道君。并尊南岳夫人魏华存为第一代宗师,上清派奉持的主要经典有[上清大洞真经] 、[黄庭经]等,而[上清大洞真经]是[黄庭经]的继承和发展,[黄庭经]是道教教义与医学相柔合的养生、修真古籍,以七言韵语描述人体五官、五脏，六腑诸神,更推广至全身八景神及二十四真之形象与作用,恒诵经典中神名及存思诸神形象,可以消灾怯病,不怕豺狼虎豹、又能脏腑安和,却老延年,其修炼内容有胎息,固精炼炁,符录诸术等,但主要内容还是以存思、存神为主要内容,即以精思凝想守护己身之神和存思与符录并重的合二为一的修持方法。 其实,在上清派发展史上,发展和传播上清经系的是杨羲，许谧和许翙等。杨羲,字羲和,出生于晋成帝咸和五年[330年],东晋吴人,后迁至江苏句容,于茅山学道,为人善良厚道,聪明好学,少年时代就喜读经史,并有灵通之感,早年便与许迈,许长史许谧结为神明之交,长史许谧曾推荐他给简文帝为公府舍人,自随简文帝登位后,再不见他复出,晋穆帝永和五年[349年]受授《牛黄制虎豹符》,次年,又从魏夫人长子刘璞受《灵宝五符》,晋哀帝兴宁二年[364年]，魏夫人又授以《上清真经》等道经秘典,又作隶字写出传许谧、许翙,晋孝武帝太元十一年[368年]羽化,被道教上清派尊为第二代宗师,宋宣和年间敕封为“洞灵显化至德真人”。上清派传至南朝梁陈时第九代宗师陶弘景,他隐居茅山,并以茅山为祖庭,他继承上清派道统又开创茅山宗,使茅山上清派不断发展壮大,在道教史上地位显赫,影响深远。