On the other hand, Tibetan Buddhism is the dominant religion in Tibet, and significantly present in other westernmost provinces where ethnic Tibetans constitute a significant part of the population, and has a strong influence in Inner Mongolia in the north. He was educated in Shang-Zhou theology, which he contributed to transmit and reformulate giving centrality to self-cultivation and human agency,[21] and the educational power of the self-established individual in assisting others to establish themselves (the principle of 愛人 àirén, "loving others"). [99][100] The government founded the Confucius Institute in 2004 to promote Chinese culture. [307]:166–167, 169–172, Buddhism was not universally welcomed, particularly among the gentry. The Tibetans contributed with the translation into Chinese of the Pāṇinisūtra and the Rāmāyaṇa. The first is a grassroots revival of cults dedicated to local deities and ancestors, led by shamans; the second way is a promotion of the religion on the institutional level, through a standardisation of Moism elaborated by Zhuang government officials and intellectuals. The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1871) was influenced to some degree by Christian teachings, and the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) was in part a reaction against Christianity in China. Historically, China and its people have been characterized by three religiophilosophical traditions. [180] Rites, symbols, objects and ideas construct and transmit group and individual identities. Data reported in. 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Since the earliest times, Chinese family religious leanings and beliefs always depended on family values and cultural practices. FOLK RELIGION IN CHINA AND TAIWAN 507 In the early 20th century, when some European sinologists shifted their attention from the elite to folk cultures, they coined the term "folk religion" to refer to the religious life of commoners in contrast to and beyond the three teachings of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (Granet 1922; de Groot 1910). While the cult of Jigong spread far beyond its Hangzhou home base, the Patriarch of the Clear Stream (Qingshui Zushi) is an example of a regional deity that developed from the cult of an eleventh-century miracle-working Buddhist monk in Fujian province and remains largely confined to the Anxi area of Fujian and areas settled by Anxi emigrants in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The main religions in China are Buddhism, Chinese folklore, Taoism and Confucianism. Mostly Catholicism (0.6%), while nobody declared affiliation with Protestantism (0%). The most famous case of such subordination is the adoption of the powerful folk deity Guan Gong as a tutelary spirit of Buddhist shrines. In the same years, about 40 million Chinese said they believed in Jesus Christ or had attended Christian meetings, but did not identify themselves with the Christian religion. [277] Confucianism conciliates both the inner and outer polarities of spiritual cultivation, that is to say self-cultivation and world redemption, synthesised in the ideal of "sageliness within and kingliness without". According to He Guanghu, Confucianism may be identified as a continuation of the Shang-Zhou (~1600 BCE–256 BCE) official religion, or the Chinese aboriginal religion which has lasted uninterrupted for three thousand years. It spread significantly much later, with Tibetan influence in the west, and with the Mongols and Manchus in the north, especially under the dynasties which they established in China, the Yuan and the Qing dynasty.[80]. Religion today is growing in diversity and openness to the worldwide context. This was also true for royal ancestors of the early Zhou dynasty. [379], Manichaeism (摩尼教 Móníjiào or 明教 Míngjiào, "bright transmission") was introduced in China together with Christianity in the 7th century, by land from Central Asia and by sea through south-eastern ports. [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. [211] If these spirits are neglected or abandoned, or were not treated with death rituals if they were humans, they become hungry and are trapped in places where they met their death, becoming dangerous for living beings and requiring exorcism. [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]. 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. Early Taoist movements developed their own institution in contrast to shamanism, but absorbing fundamental shamanic elements. FOLK RELIGION IN CHINA Exorcism in the 1920s Spiritual beliefs and superstitions still abound in China even though they are frowned upon and in some cases suppressed by the authorities. Overmyer, Daniel L. Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. This line of thought would have influenced all Chinese individual and collective-political mystical theories and practices thereafter. 鬼法界, 鬼界 is "the realm of hungry ghosts". When the native Han Chinese Ming dynasty overthrew the Yuan dynasty in the 14th century, Christianity was again expelled from China as a foreign influence. [220] Unlike the Abrahamic traditions in which living beings are created by God out of nothing, in Chinese religions all living beings descend from beings that existed before. The annual worship of the god Cáncóng of the ancient state of Shu, for instance, was resumed at a ceremonial complex near the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Sichuan. For example, the highest goddess in Chinese folk religion. There is no ontological difference between gods and demons, and humans may emulate the gods and join them in the pantheon. The introduction of such a link by means of the concepts of karma (action), rebirth, and hell (or purgatory) led to a fundamental restructuring of Chinese conceptions of the afterlife, furnishing it with a complete set of hells, reigned over by ten kings, in which the soul of the deceased undergoes a series of punishments in accord with its karmic burden before eventually being reborn. In these ways Buddhism helped to shape Chinese folk religion and was in turn shaped by it. They drew their inspiration ecumenically from all religious traditions of China, but in many of them the soteriological promise of the Pure Land combined with the eschatological expectation of the buddha Maitreya to infuse them with a distinctly Buddhist flavor. Dean, Kenneth. The proliferation of foreign religions in the Tang, especially Buddhist sects, entailed that each of them conceived their own ideal "Heaven". The state protects normal religious activities. It has been the case in China for millennia and in Taiwan for many hundreds of years. The traditions of the "Nine Fields" (九野 Jiǔyě) and of the Yijing flourished. [244] Some of these movements began to register as branches of the Taoist Association since the 1990s. [354] The category of "Protestantism" in China also comprehends a variety of heterodox sects of Christian inspiration, including Zhushenism (主神教 Zhǔshénjiào, "Church of Lord God"), Linglingism (灵灵教 Línglíngjiào, "Numinous Church"), Fuhuodao, the Church of the Disciples (门徒会 Méntúhuì) and Eastern Lightning or the Church of Almighty God (全能神教 Quánnéngshénjiào).[355]. [279] In 2003, the Confucian intellectual Kang Xiaoguang published a manifesto in which he made four suggestions: Confucian education should enter official education at any level, from elementary to high school; the state should establish Confucianism as the state religion by law; Confucian religion should enter the daily life of ordinary people, a purpose achievable through a standardisation and development of doctrines, rituals, organisations, churches and activity sites; the Confucian religion should be spread through non-governmental organisations. A few years later, an Islamic army called the Kansu Braves, led by the general Dong Fuxiang, fought for the Qing dynasty against the foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion. Among them, the most revered are the water god Dragon King (Zaj Laug), the Thunder God (Xob), the gods of life and death (Ntxwj Nyug and Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem), Lady Sun (Nkauj Hnub) and Lord Moon (Nraug Hli), and various deified human ancestors.[338]:60–62. In the late 20th century there was a reactivation of the state cults devoted to the Yellow Emperor and the Red Emperor. [223] Since the 2000s, Chinese scholars have proposed names to identify it more clearly, including "Chinese native religion" or "Chinese indigenous religion" (民俗宗教 mínsú zōngjiào), "Chinese ethnic religion" (民族宗教 mínzú zōngjiào), or simply "Chinese religion" (中華教 Zhōnghuájiào), "Shenism" (神教 Shénjiào) and "Shenxianism" (神仙教 Shénxiānjiào, "religion of deities and immortals"). Buddhist saints—revered masters or miracle workers—sometimes became objects of worship, their mortuary stŪpas or mummified bodies attracting large numbers of pilgrims praying for blessings and protection. Religions that were deemed "appropriate" and given freedom were those that entailed the ancestral tradition of consolidated state rule. 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. Ancient rites and customs thrive in almost every village, town and city across China, There are literally millions of ancestral shrines and temples honoring local… [179], This reliance on group memory is the foundation of the Chinese practice of ancestor worship (拜祖 bàizǔ or 敬祖 jìngzǔ) which dates back to prehistory, and is the focal aspect of Chinese religion. [276], By the words of Tu Weiming and other Confucian scholars who recover the work of Kang Youwei (a Confucian reformer of the early 20th century), Confucianism revolves around the pursuit of the unity of the individual self and Heaven, or, otherwise said, around the relationship between humanity and Heaven. Christians were unevenly distributed geographically, the only provinces in which they constituted a population significantly larger than 1 million persons being Henan, Anhui and Zhejiang. China, home to the largest folk religion population, is expected to have 14% of the world’s population in 2050, down from 20% in 2010. At the end of the Ming dynasty in the 16th century, Jesuits arrived in Beijing via Guangzhou. [333], Dongbaism (東巴教 Dōngbajiào, "religion of the eastern Ba") is the main religion of the Nakhi people. [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". Separately, a 2012 Pew Research Center report found that more than 294 million people, or 21 percent of China’s population, practice folk religions. [382] Small Manichaean communities are still active in modern China. Normal religious Activities are Protected by the constitution. During the same period, Chan Buddhism grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism. 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Folk or popular religion, the most widespread system of beliefs and practices, has evolved and adapted since at least the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the second millennium BCE. Evidence of burial practices has been dated to as early as 5000 BCE. Chinese folk religion is one of the labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have historically comprised the predominant belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups up to the present day. FOLK RELIGION, CHINAMuch has been written about Buddhism's conversation with Confucianism and Daoism since its arrival in China by the first century c.e. This study estimated 21.9% of the population of China believed in folk religions, 18.2% were Buddhists, 5.1% were Christians, 1.8% were Muslims, 0.8% believed in other religions, while unaffiliated people constituted 52.2% of the population. Shen, as defined by the scholar Stephen Teiser, is a term that needs to be translated into English in at least three different ways, according to the context: "spirit", "spirits", and "spiritual". Taoism, both in registered and unregistered forms, has experienced a strong development since the 1990s, and dominates the religious life of coastal provinces.[294]. Karma linked the afterlife with individual effort, which created the terrifying realm of hell, but also opened up new possibilities for salvation. Though Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, the greatest concentration of Muslims is in Xinjiang, with a significant Uyghur population. Western scholarship generally accepted this understanding. [24], By the 6th century BCE the power of Tian and the symbols that represented it on earth (architecture of cities, temples, altars and ritual cauldrons, and the Zhou ritual system) became "diffuse" and claimed by different potentates in the Zhou states to legitimise economic, political, and military ambitions. [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. [223] The lack of an overarching name conceptualising Chinese local and indigenous cults has led to some confusion in the terminology employed in scholarly literature. Some scholars also consider the reconstruction of lineage churches and their ancestral temples, as well as of cults and temples of natural gods and national heroes within broader Chinese traditional religion, as part of the renewal of Confucianism. [59] Before the Confucian turn of Emperor Wu and after him, the early and latter Han dynasty had Huang-Lao as the state doctrine under various emperors; in Huang-Lao, the philosopher-god Laozi was identified as the Yellow Emperor and received imperial sacrifices, for instance by Emperor Huan (146-168). Being well received by the population, even Confucian preachers started to appear on television since 2006. Numerous folk religion temples in Hebei Province were demolished. Later, the Manichaean bishop Mihr-Ohrmazd, who was Mōzak's pupil, also came to China, where he was granted an audience by empress Wu Zetian (684–704), and according to later Buddhist sources he presented at the throne the Erzongjing ("Text of the Two Principles") that became the most popular Manichaean scripture in China. Both Roman Catholics and Protestants founded numerous educational institutions in China from the primary to the university level. For example, over 30 percent of Han Chinese people follow Shenism, or Chinese folk religion. While in the English current usage "folk religion" means broadly all forms of common cults of gods and ancestors, in Chinese usage and in academia these cults have not had an overarching name. Already in Shang theology, the multiplicity of gods of nature and ancestors were viewed as parts of Di, and the four 方 fāng ("directions" or "sides") and their 風 fēng ("winds") as his cosmic will. Also the Hong Kong Confucian Academy, one of the direct heirs of Kang Youwei's Confucian Church, has expanded its activities to the mainland, with the construction of statues of Confucius, the establishment of Confucian hospitals, the restoration of temples and other activities. This search for a precise name is meant to solve terminological confusion, since "folk religion" (民间宗教 mínjiān zōngjiào) or "folk belief" (民间信仰 mínjiān xìnyǎng) have historically defined the sectarian movements of salvation and not the local cults devoted to deities and progenitors, and it is also meant to identify a "national Chinese religion" similarly to Hinduism in India and Shinto in Japan. [17] The Flemish philosopher Ulrich Libbrecht traces the origins of some features of Taoism to what Jan Jakob Maria de Groot called "Wuism",[18] that is Chinese shamanism. [204], The present-day government of China, like the erstwhile imperial dynasties of the Ming and Qing, tolerates popular religious cults if they bolster social stability, but suppresses or persecutes cults and deities which threaten moral order. The other circa 48% of the population is split between the officially recognized religions, as well as folk religions and very small populations of Jewish and Hindu believers. By the words of Stephan Feuchtwang, in Chinese cosmology "the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy" (hundun 混沌 and qi), organising as the polarity of yin and yang which characterises any thing and life. Confucius saw an opportunity to reinforce values of compassion and tradition into society. The late Tang dynasty saw the spread of the cult of the City Gods in direct bond to the development of the cities as centres of commerce and the rise in influence of merchant classes. The revival of Chinese Buddhism in the 21st century has also seen the development of the Humanistic Buddhist movement, reintroduced from Taiwan and Chinese overseas communities, with organisations such as the Cíjì (慈济), which has been working in mainland China since 1991[310] and has opened its mainland headquarters in the 2010s in Suzhou. Refer to each style’s convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. 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. [306] However, Buddhism and Confucianism eventually reconciled after centuries of conflict and assimilation.[308]. Also Mormonism (摩爾門教 Mó'ěrménjiào) has a tiny presence. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. ", Overmyer (2009, p. 73), says that from the late 19th to the 20th century few professional priests (i.e. Most Chinese people don’t belong to any religious organizations, but that doesn’t mean they don’t pray to or worship any Gods. From the central sulde there are strings that hold tied light blue pieces of cloth with a few white ones. This era, sometimes considered a Golden Age of Islam in China, also saw Nanjing become an important center of Islamic study. 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. Among the ancient Chinese, the God of the Zhou dynasty appeared to have been an ancestor of the ruling house. Here, too, Buddhism made a major contribution by offering the saving compassion of its buddhas and bodhisattvas. ." Identification. Pre-Buddhist ideas distinguished between various paradisiacal realms and a vaguely defined underworld called the Yellow Springs, but there seems to have been no clear link between one's posthumous fate and one's conduct while living. [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. Many descendants of the Kaifeng community still live among the Chinese population, mostly unaware of their Jewish ancestry, while some have moved to Israel. However, there are many Tibetan Buddhist temples as far as northeast China, the Yonghe Temple in Beijing being just one example. [134], Religious self-identification of university students in Beijing (2011)[140], Religious self-identification of participants of the cultural nationalist movement in the mainland (2011)[141], The varieties of Chinese religion are spread across the map of China in different degrees. Benzhuism is very similar to Han Chinese religion. They are local gods and deified ancestors of the Bai nation. [219] In other words, to the Chinese, the supreme principle is manifested and embodied by the chief gods of each phenomenon and of each human kin, making the worship of the highest God possible even in each ancestral temple. The goal for followers of this popular form of Buddhism is to be reborn in the Pure Land, which is a place rather than a state of mind. What Westerners referred to as Nestorianism flourished for centuries, until Emperor Wuzong of the Tang in 845 ordained that all foreign religions (Buddhism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism) had to be eradicated from the Chinese nation. China is one of the most ancient civilizations on earth, and Chinese religion is one of the oldest forms of religion. [262], There are two types of Taoists, following the distinction between the Quanzhen and Zhengyi traditions. Otherwise, the school of the Old Texts regards Confucius as a sage who gave a new interpretation to the tradition from previous great dynasties. During Japanese rule also many Japanese new religions, or independent Shinto sects, proselytised in Manchuria establishing hundreds of congregations. We will discuss each of the following in more detail below. The government of China officially espouses state atheism,[3] but in reality most of Chinese citizens (including Communist Party members) practice some kind of Chinese folk religion, especially Confucianism. Taoism has a distinct scriptural tradition, with the Dàodéjīng (道德经 "Book of the Way and its Virtue") of Laozi being regarded as its keystone. All folk religions combined have more followers than Buddhism or Judaism, claiming about … Nuo religion revolves around the worship of gods and ancestors represented by characteristic wooden masks and idols. 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