Benzhuism is very similar to Han Chinese religion. [303] What Confucianism did was to marginalise the features of old shamanism which were dysfunctional for the new political regime. Western scholarship generally accepted this understanding. [131], Yu Tao's survey of the year 2008 provided a detailed analysis of the social characteristics of the religious communities. [79], In the 16th century, the Jesuit China missions played a significant role in opening dialogue between China and the West. Numerous folk religion temples in Hebei Province were demolished. The pace of missionary activity increased considerably after the First Opium War in 1842. In the 2010s they were served by 35,000 to 45,000 mosques, 40,000 to 50,000 imams (ahong), and 10 Quranic institutions. [48][49] The state ritual of the Qin was indeed similar to that of the following Han dynasty. [132] A 2017 study of the Christian communities of Wuhan found the same socio-economic characteristics, with the addition that Christians were more likely to suffer from physical and mental illness than the general population. [16], Ancient shamanism is especially connected to ancient Neolithic cultures such as the Hongshan culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. Since the 2000s, Confucianism has been embraced as a religious identity by a large numbers of intellectuals and students in China. [349], "Shigongism" refers to the dimension led by the shīgōng (师公) ritual specialists, a term which may be translated variously as "ancestral father" or "teaching master", and which refers both to the principle of the universe (God) and to the men who are able to represent it. This led to the foundation of two new Taoist schools, with their own scriptural and ritual bodies: Shangqing Taoism (上清派 Shàngqīngpài, "Highest Clarity school"), based on revelations that occurred between 364 and 370 in modern-day Nanjing, and Lingbao Taoism (灵宝派 Língbǎopài, "Numinous Gem school"), based on revelations of the years between 397 and 402 and recodified later by Lu Xiujing (406-77). It was chosen to translate the Western concept "religion" only at the end of the 19th century, when Chinese intellectuals adopted the Japanese term shūkyō (pronounced zongjiao in Chinese). This article is a stub. Encyclopedia.com. The main religions in China are Buddhism, Chinese folklore, Taoism and Confucianism. [74], In the Tang dynasty (618–907) the concept of "Tian" became more common at the expense of "Di", continuing a tendency that started in the Han dynasty. While Buddhism contributed new deities to folk religion, it in turn adopted popular deities into its own pantheon, albeit usually only in a subservient position. [12] National surveys conducted in the early 21st century estimated that some 80% of the population of China, which is more than a billion people, practice some kind of Chinese folk religion; 10–16% are Buddhists; 10% are Taoist; 2.53% are Christians; and 0.4% are Muslims. [374] However, many Muslims like Ma Zhan'ao, Ma Anliang, Dong Fuxiang, Ma Qianling and Ma Julung, defected to the Qing dynasty side and helped the Qing general Zuo Zongtang to exterminate the rebels. [317]:40 Cultural critiques point to the fact that Shin Buddhist clerics may marry and eat meat; modern Chinese Shin Buddhist groups, however, tend to follow the norms of celibacy and vegetarianism of Chinese Buddhism. [43], The Qin (221–206 BCE), and especially Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), inherited the philosophical developments of the Warring States period molding them into a universalistic philosophy, cosmology and religion. Zhang Lu died in 216 or 217, and between 215 and 219 the people of Hanzhong were gradually dispersed northwards, implanting Celestial Masters' Taoism in other parts of the empire. Yin and yang are the invisible and the visible, the receptive and the active, the unshaped and the shaped; they characterise the yearly cycle (winter and summer), the landscape (shady and bright), the sexes (female and male), and even sociopolitical history (disorder and order). Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Once he became president of China, fighting moral void and corruption through a return to traditional culture became the primary tasks of the new government. The Baháʼí Faith (巴哈伊信仰 Bāhāyī xìnyǎng, 巴哈伊教 Bāhāyījiào, or, in old translations, 大同教 Dàtóngjiào) has had a presence in China[353] since the 19th century. [147][148], Many scholars see "north Chinese religion" as distinct from practices in the south. 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[346]:290, The reason of such strong identification of Yao religion with Taoism is that in Yao society every male adult is initiated as a Taoist. In the early Tang, a new character was invented specifically for Zoroastrianism, 祆 xiān, meaning the "worship of Heaven". Quanzhen Taoism is mostly present in the north, while Sichuan is the area where Tianshi Taoism developed and the early Celestial Masters had their main seat. [191] A popular representation of Heaven is the Jade Deity (玉帝 Yùdì) or Jade Emperor (玉皇 Yùhuáng). Among the 10 countries with the most adherents of folk religions in 2010, only Nigeria and Brazil are expected to see sizable increases in the shares of their populations belonging to folk and traditional religions. [218] However, the term zōngjiào—instead of separation—emphasises communication, correspondence and mutuality between the ancestor and the descendant, the master and the disciple, and between the Way (Tao, the way of the divine in nature) and its ways. [218] Jiào (教 "teaching") is connected to filial piety (xiao), as it implies the transmission of knowledge from the elders to the youth and of support from the youth to the elders. Some breathing techniques practised in Shaktism are known as Cīnācāra ("Chinese Practice"), and the Shakta tantras that discuss them trace their origin to Taoism. The Tibetan tradition has also been gaining a growing influence among the Han Chinese. [180] Rites, symbols, objects and ideas construct and transmit group and individual identities. Both Roman Catholics and Protestants founded numerous educational institutions in China from the primary to the university level. The strong association of Chinese Buddhism with concepts of the afterlife combined with the saṅgha's separateness to provide Buddhist monks and nuns with unique qualifications as providers of ritual services for the dead. [44], According to Zhou Youguang, Confucianism's name in Chinese, basically 儒 rú, originally referred to shamanic methods of holding rites and existed before Confucius' times, but with Confucius it came to mean devotion to propagating such teachings to bring civilisation to the people. Chris White, in a 2017 work for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity of the Max Planck Society, criticises the data and narratives put forward by these authors. [65], The latter Han dynasty (25–220 CE) struggled with both internal instability and menace by non-Chinese peoples from the outer edges of the empire. Three surveys conducted respectively in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by the Horizon Research Consultancy Group on a disproportionately urban and suburban sample, found that Buddhists constituted between 11% and 16% of the total population, Christians were between 2% and 4%, and Muslims approximately 1%. [99][100] The government founded the Confucius Institute in 2004 to promote Chinese culture. Taoist or Confucian Philosophies have many followers in Shandong Province and the northeastern provinces. [314] Theravada Buddhism suffered from persecution during the Cultural Revolution, but after the 1980s it was revived. [334]:63 They worship nature and generation, in the form of many heavenly gods and spirits, chthonic Shu (spirits of the earth represented in the form of chimera-dragon-serpent beings), and ancestors.[334]:86. [210] Yet the combination 鬼神 guǐshén ("ghosts and spirits") includes both good and bad, those that are lucky or unlucky, benevolent or malevolent, the heavenly ad the demonic aspect of living beings. Even Chinese Buddhism adapted to common Chinese cosmology by paralleling its concept of a triune supreme with Shakyamuni, Amithaba and Maitreya representing respectively enlightenment, salvation and post-apocalyptic paradise,[204] while the Tathātā (真如 zhēnrú, "suchness") is generally identified as the supreme being itself. However, as a religion of the Western peoples (Bactrians, Sogdians) it was not outlawed, provided that it remained confined to them not spreading among Chinese. At that time China was being gradually invaded by European and American powers, and since 1860 Christian missionaries had had the right to build or rent premises, and they appropriated many temples. by the Chinese central government, a curious video emerged on YouTube two weeks ago showing the destruction of a folk religion statue in Handan, China.. A 巫 wū (shaman) of the Supreme Peace named Zhang Xiu was known to have led a group of followers from Shu into the uprising of the year 184. On the other hand, the fact that those worshipping in temples are mainly women is worth noting.6 During temple fairs or any important festivals such as the birthday of Guanyin, the temples will be The most prominent early community were the so-called Kaifeng Jews, in Kaifeng, Henan province. [223] It is a meaning system of social solidarity and identity, which provides the fabric of Chinese society, uniting all its levels from the lineages to the village or city communities, to the state and the national economy. So the unborn venerated is mother is cross-connected to the fire. In China, the most notable religions in the country are often combined with the folk beliefs. Chinese folk religion is a religion that has been practised in China for thousands of years. [192][note 13] Tengri is the equivalent of Tian in Altaic shamanic religions. [328] Since then, large temples and ceremonial complexes for Bimoist practices have been built. [41] As the Zhou reign collapsed, traditional values were abandoned resulting in a period of moral decline. Most of this activity affects people who subscribe to world views that are sometimes formally acknowledged by the state and are institutionalised, or others that are tacitly approved as customs". And the word “exactly” makes it almost impossible to answer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. Jiangnan became the center of the "southern tradition" of Celestial Masters' Taoism, which developed characteristic features, among which a meditation technique known as "guarding the One" (shouyi), that is visualising the unity God in the human organism. A thing or being is "spiritual"—the third sense of shen—when it inspires awe or wonder. Both also expanded their meanings, with "di" now more frequently used as suffix of a deity's name rather than to refer to the supreme power. Overmyer, Daniel L. Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. The rise of the Qing dynasty saw numerous Islamic rebellions, including the Panthay Rebellion which occurred in Yunnan from 1855 to 1873, and the Dungan Revolt, which occurred mostly in Xinjiang, Shaanxi and Gansu from 1862 to 1877. [69], Buddhism was introduced during the latter Han dynasty, and first mentioned in 65 CE. [388]:149 Chinese Zoroastrian temples were witnessed to be active in Hanyang, Hubei until those years. [42] Confucius amended and recodified the classical books inherited from the Xia-Shang-Zhou dynasties, and composed the Spring and Autumn Annals. [86]:3[87], After the Xinhai Revolution, with increasing urbanisation and Western influence, the issue for the new intellectual class was no longer the worship of heterodox gods as it was the case in imperial times, but the delegitimisation of religion itself, and especially folk religion, as an obstacle to modernisation. Waves of missionaries came to China in the Qing period as a result of contact with foreign powers. TWH – Amid the turmoil of COVID-19 and the legal suppression of Hong Kong. In Zhou theology, Tian had no singular earthly progeny, but bestowed divine favour on virtuous rulers. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state. [351], Since the 1980s and the 1990s there has been a revival of Zhuang folk religion, which has followed two directions. Some of the basic Confucian ethical and practical concepts include rén, yì, lǐ, and zhì. Confucianism and Taoism (Daoism), later joined by Buddhism, constitute the "three teachings" that have shaped Chinese culture. Some Chinese believe that the ghosts of their ancestors return to their houses at a certain time of the year, hungry and ready to eat. This tradition includes veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief that a rational order structures the universe, and such order may be influenced by human beings and their rulers. [290], Taoism (道教 Dàojiào) (also romanised as Daoism in the current pinyin spelling), refers to a variety of related orders of philosophy and rite in Chinese religion. [329], The spiritual source of Bon is the mythical figure of Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche. [125], Judaism (犹太教 Yóutàijiào) was introduced during the Tang dynasty (618-907) or earlier, by small groups of Jews settled in China. Benzhuism (本主教 Běnzhǔjiào, "religion of the patrons") is the indigenous religion of the Bai people, an ethnic group of Yunnan. of negative theology). There are at least 800,000,000 followers of Chinese folk religion worldwide (estimate). They are not shamans (wu), with the exception of the order of Mount Lu in Jiangxi. According to scholarly opinion, "the great majority of China's population of 1.4 billion" takes part in Chinese cosmological religion, its rituals and festivals of the lunar calendar, without belonging to any institutional teaching. The Zhuang religion is intertwined with Taoism. A further type of folk religious movements, possibly overlapping with the "secret sects", are the martial sects. [294] Contrarywise, Zhengyi daoshi, also known as sanju daoshi ("scattered" or "diffused" Taoists) or huoju daoshi (Taoists "who live at home"), are priests who may marry and have other jobs besides the sacerdotal office; they live among the population and perform Taoist rituals within common Chinese religion, for local temples and communities. [277] The principle of Heaven (Li or Dao) is the order of the creation and the source of divine authority, monistic in its structure. In the process, it contributed a significant number of the pieces that make up the rich mosaic of religious life in Chinese communities. [77], The principle of reciprocity between the human and the divine, which was strengthened during the Tang dynasty, led to changes in the pantheon that reflected changes in the society. ." [161], Christians are especially concentrated in the three provinces of Henan, Anhui and Zhejiang. In addition, ethnic minority groups practice distinctive religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, and Islam among the Hui and Uyghur peoples. [360] The scholar Richard Madsen noted that "the Christian God then becomes one in a pantheon of local gods among whom the rural population divides its loyalties". [395] Further, he considered that cause-and-effect relationships claimed to be evidence of karma were merely the result of coincidence and bias. The last wave of Jewish refugees came from Poland and other eastern European countries in the early 1940s.[376]. The emperors of China claimed the Mandate of Heaven and participated in Chinese religious practices. CFPS 2014 surveyed a sample of 13,857 families and 31,665 individuals. One of them is a translation of the Ashem Vohu recovered by Aurel Stein in Dunhuang and now preserved at the British Museum. In its interior, the temple enshrines a statue of Genghis Khan (at the center) and four of his men on each side (the total making nine, a symbolic number in Mongolian culture), there is an altar where offerings to the godly men are made, and three white suldes made with white horse hair. [209], Shen are opposed in several ways to guǐ 鬼 ("ghosts", or "demons"). [317]:39–40, The propagation of Shin Buddhism in China has faced some critiques for cultural, historical and doctrinal reasons. Along the southeastern coast, Taoism reportedly dominates the ritual activity of popular religion, both in registered and unregistered forms (Zhengyi Taoism and unrecognised fashi orders). Indeed, from the elites' point of view, the movement was connected to a series of abnormal cosmic phenomena seen as characteristic of an excess of 阴 yīn (femininity, sinister, reabsorption of the order of nature). [66], By the end of the dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE) the earliest record of a mass religious movement attests the excitement provoked by the belief in the imminent advent of the Queen Mother of the West (西王母 Xīwángmǔ) in the northeastern provinces (then Henan, Hebei and Shandong) in the first half of the year 3 BCE. They are local gods and deified ancestors of the Bai nation. The expansion of Buddhism reached its peak during the Tang dynasty, in the 9th century, when Buddhist monasteries had become very rich and powerful. "Folk Religion, China [58] Han theology focalised on the Yellow Emperor, a culture hero and creator of civility, who, according to a definition in apocryphal texts related to the Hétú 河圖, "proceeds from the essence of the Yellow God of the Northern Dipper", is born to "a daughter of a chthonic deity", and as such he is "a cosmic product of the conflation of Heaven and Earth". Many of them sought refuge from anti-Semitic pogroms in the Russian Empire (early 1900s), the communist revolution and civil war in Russia (1917–1918), and anti-Semitic Nazi policy in central Europe, chiefly in Germany and Austria (1937–1940). After the fall of the Qing, Sun Yat-sen proclaimed that the country belonged equally to the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Tibetan and Hui people. 2008: a survey conducted in that year by Yu Tao of the, 2010: the Chinese Spiritual Life Survey directed by the, Four surveys conducted respectively in the years 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 as part of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of the, 2012-2014: analyses published in a study by Fenggang Yang and Anning Hu found that 55.5% of the adult population (15+) of China, or 578 million people in absolute numbers, believed and practised folk religions, including a 20% who practised ancestor veneration or communal worship of deities, and the rest who practised what Yang and Hu define "individual" folk religions like devotion to specific gods such as. [333], Dongbaism (東巴教 Dōngbajiào, "religion of the eastern Ba") is the main religion of the Nakhi people. 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In this effort, the libraries of the Buddhist monasteries were destroyed, almost completely in the Yangtze River Delta. Their practices are focused on improving morality, body cultivation, and on the recitation of scriptures. "Folk Religion, China Taoism was suppressed during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s but its traditions endured in secrecy and revived in following decades. All folk religions combined have more followers than Buddhism or Judaism, claiming about … [106], The Associated Press reported in September 2018 that "Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982. Confucius (551–479 BCE) appeared in this period of political decadence and spiritual questioning. Of China's recognised ethnic minorities, ten groups are traditionally Islamic. [382], Manichaeism had bad reputation among Tang dynasty authorities, who regarded it as an erroneous form of Buddhism. [373], Muslims, mainly Arabs, travelled to China to trade. Commercial travel opened China to influences from foreign cultures. Confucians experience the sacred as existing in this world as part of everyday life, most importantly in family and social relations. No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion. Worship is devoted to gods and immortals (shén and xiān), who may be founders of human groups and lineages, deities of stars, earthly phenomena, and of human behaviour.[233]. Various vernacular orders of ritual ministers often identified as "folk Taoists", operate in folk religion but outside the jurisdiction of the state's Taoist Church or schools clearly identified as Taoist. Chinese folk religion is occasionally observed as a constituent a part of Chinese classic religion, but more typically, the two are regarded as synonymous. It is ultimately ineffable: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" says the first verse of the Tao Te Ching. The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, in the guise of the female Guanyin, became a multifunctional deity who, among many other concerns, is believed to grant children to her faithful, thus earning her the name Songzi Guanyin (Child-Giving Guanyin). He notices that these authors work in the wake of a "Western evangelical bias" reflected in the coverage carried forward by popular media, especially in the United States, which rely upon a "considerable romanticisation" of Chinese Christians. [307]:189–190, 268–269 Confucianism promoted social stability, order, strong families, and practical living, and Chinese officials questioned how monasticism and personal attainment of Nirvana benefited the empire. [179] Defined as "the essential religion of the Chinese", ancestor worship is the means of memory and therefore of the cultural vitality of the entire Chinese civilisation. [383] In the same years all foreign religions were suppressed under Emperor Wuzong of Tang (840–846). Much has been written about Buddhism's conversation with Confucianism and Daoism since its arrival in China by the first century c.e. [273] Confucians cultivate family bonds and social harmony rather than pursuing a transcendental salvation. "Tian", besides, became more associated to its meaning of "Heaven" as a paradise or the hierarchy of physical skies. However, along with the economic and social reforms since the late 1970s, folk religion has revived throughout China, even though the proportions of folk religious believers and practitioners remain substantially smaller than in Taiwan. By 1921, Harbin, Manchuria's largest city, had a Russian population of around 100,000, constituting a large part of Christianity in the city. With the end of the Second World War and of the Manchu Country (Manchukuo) in 1945, and the return of Manchuria to China under the Kuomintang, Shinto was abolished and the shrines were destroyed. [216] Most academics in China use the term "religion" (zongjiao) to include formal institutions, specific beliefs, a clergy, and sacred texts, while Western scholars tend to use the term more loosely. Across China, Han religion has even adopted deities from Tibetan folk religion, especially wealth gods. These are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. They used a variety of writings by Confucius and his followers to coin a new "-ism"—"Confucianism"—which they presented as a "rationalist secular-ethical code", not as a religion. Since the 1980s, Bimoism has undergone a comprehensive revitalisation,[322] both on the popular level and on the scholarly level,[322] with the bimo now celebrated as an "intellectual class"[326] whose role is that of creators, preservers and transmitters of Yi high culture. Fujian Province. With the rise of Confucian orthodoxy in the Han period (206 BCE–220 CE), shamanic traditions found an institutionalised and intellectualised form within the esoteric philosophical discourse of Taoism. However, the date of retrieval is often important. Christianity did not take root until it was reintroduced in the 16th century by Jesuit missionaries. Teiser, Stephen F. The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. [51][52] The emperors of Qin also concentrated the cults of the five forms of God, previously held at different locations, in unified temple complexes.[53]. 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