The book of the famous Russian orientalist Professor A. A. Maslov tells about the initiations and mysteries of traditional China associated with immortal cults, travels to the afterlife, funeral rituals and the formation of a special spiritual climate, where the most ordinary and worldly turns out to be sublimely sacred and most significant. A special role here is played by magical reincarnations of mediums and magicians into half-spirits, half-people, the cult of dragons, snakes and birds.