The two-branch structure is the most striking fact about Taoist institutional life and it has held for eight hundred years. Zhengyi, Orthodox Unity, descends from the Celestial Masters: its priests are householders who marry, eat meat, drink, live at home rather than in temples, and typically transmit the office and the ritual manuals to a son. Their work is liturgical and communal — funerals, exorcisms, house blessings, talismans, and the great jiao offerings. Quanzhen, Complete Perfection, is monastic: celibate, vegetarian, teetotal, resident in temples, with clergy who never cut their hair and wear it coiled under a wooden pin, and whose emphasis is internal alchemy and self-cultivation rather than service for fees. Geographically Zhengyi predominates in the south, Taiwan and the diaspora; Quanzhen holds the major northern monasteries. Neither regards the other as illegitimate, and no reconciliation has ever been attempted, because none is needed.