Mount Lu
"Fashi" are "tongji" practitioners (southern mediumship), healers, exorcists and they officiate "jiao" rituals of "universal salvation" (although historically they were excluded from performing such rites). They are not shamans ("wu"), with the exception of the order of Mount Lu in Jiangxi. Rather, they represent an intermediate level between the "wu" and the Taoists. Like the "wu", the "fashi" identify with their deity, but while the "wu" embody wild forces, vernacular ritual masters represent order like the Taoists. Unlike the Taoists, who represent a tradition of high theology which is interethnic, both vernacular ritual masters and "wu" find their institutional base in local cults to particular deities, even though vernacular ritual masters are itinerant.