Китайская народная религия
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Китайская народная религия , также известная как китайская народная религия , охватывает ряд традиционных религиозных практик ханьцев , включая китайскую диаспору . Вивьен Ви описала его как «пустую чашу, которую можно по-разному наполнить содержимым институционализированных религий, таких как буддизм , даосизм , конфуцианство и китайские синкретические религии ». [1] Сюда входит почитание шен (духов) и предков . [2] Поклонение посвящено божествам и бессмертным , которые могут быть божествами мест или природных явлений, человеческого поведения или основателями семейных линий . Истории об этих богах собраны в основу китайской мифологии . При династии Сун (960–1279) эти практики были смешаны с буддийскими , конфуцианскими и даосскими учениями, чтобы сформировать популярную религиозную систему, которая во многих отношениях просуществовала до наших дней. [3] Нынешнее правительство материкового Китая , как и императорские династии, терпимо относится к популярным религиозным организациям, если они поддерживают социальную стабильность, но подавляет или преследует тех, кто, как они опасаются, может ее подорвать. [4]
After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, governments and modernizing elites condemned "feudal superstition" and opposed or attempted to eradicate traditional religious practices which they believed conflicted with modern values. By the late 20th century, these attitudes began to change both in Taiwan and in mainland China, and many scholars now view folk religion in a positive light.[5] In recent times traditional religion is experiencing a revival in both China and Taiwan. Some forms have received official understanding or recognition as a preservation of traditional culture, such as Mazuism and the Sanyi teaching in Fujian,[6] Huangdi worship,[7] and other forms of local worship, for example the Longwang, Pangu or Caishen worship.[8]
Geomancy, acupuncture, and traditional Chinese medicine reflect this world view, since features of the landscape as well as organs of the body are in correlation with the five powers and yin and yang.[9]
Diversity
[edit]Chinese religions have a variety of sources, local forms, founder backgrounds, and ritual and philosophical traditions. Despite this diversity, there is a common core that can be summarised as four theological, cosmological, and moral concepts:[10] Tian (Chinese: 天; pinyin: tiān; lit. 'Heaven'), the transcendent source of moral meaning; qi (simplified Chinese: 气; traditional Chinese: 氣; pinyin: qì), the breath or energy that animates the universe; jingzu (Chinese: 敬祖; pinyin: jìng zǔ), the veneration of ancestors; and bao ying (Chinese: 報應; pinyin: bàoyìng), moral reciprocity; together with two traditional concepts of fate and meaning:[11] ming yun (Chinese: 命運; pinyin: mìngyùn), the personal destiny or burgeoning; and yuan fen (Chinese: 緣分; pinyin: yuánfèn), "fateful coincidence",[12] good and bad chances and potential relationships.[12]
Yin and yang (Chinese: 陰陽; pinyin: yīnyáng) is the polarity that describes the order of the universe,[13] held in balance by the interaction of principles of "extension" (Chinese: 神; pinyin: shén; lit. 'spirit') and principles of "returning" (Chinese: 鬼; pinyin: guǐ; lit. 'ghost'),[14] with yang ("act") usually preferred over yin ("receptiveness") in common religion.[15] The taijitu is used in folk religion, along with the bagua, to represent the natural forces and power that deities like Zhong Kui wield.[16] Ling (Chinese: 靈; pinyin: líng), "numen" or "sacred", is the "medium" of the two states and the inchoate order of creation.[15]
Terminology
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The Chinese language historically has not had a concept or overarching name for "religion". In English, the terms "popular religion" or "folk religion" have long been used to mean local religious life. In Chinese academic literature and common usage "folk religion" (Chinese: 民間宗教; pinyin: mínjiān zōngjiào) refers to specific organised folk religious sects.[17]
Contemporary academic study of traditional cults and the creation of a government agency that gave legal status to this religion [18] have created proposals to formalise names and deal more clearly with folk religious sects and help conceptualise research and administration.[19] The terms that have been proposed include "Chinese native religion" or "Chinese indigenous religion" (Chinese: 民俗宗教; pinyin: mínsú zōngjiào), "Chinese ethnic religion" (Chinese: 民族宗教; pinyin: mínzú zōngjiào),[20] or "Chinese religion" (Chinese: 中華教; pinyin: zhōnghuájiào) viewed as comparable to the usage of the term "Hinduism" for Indian religion.[21] In Malaysia, reports the scholar Tan Chee-Beng, Chinese do not have a definite term for their traditional religion, which is not surprising because "the religion is diffused into various aspects of Chinese culture". They refer to their religion as bai fo or bai shen, which prompted Alan J. A. Elliott to suggest the term "shenism" (Chinese: 神教; pinyin: shénjiào). Tan however, comments that is not the way the Chinese refer to their religion, which in any case includes worship of ancestors, not shen, and suggests it is logical to use "Chinese Religion".[22] "Shenxianism" (Chinese: 神仙教; pinyin: shénxiān jiào, literally, "religion of deities and immortals"),[23] is a term partly inspired by Elliott's neologism, "Shenism".[24]
In the late Qing dynasty scholars Yao Wendong and Chen Jialin used the term shenjiao not referring to Shinto as a definite religious system, but to local shin beliefs in Japan.[25] Other terms are "folk cults" (Chinese: 民間崇拜; pinyin: mínjiān chóngbài), "spontaneous religion" (Chinese: 自發宗教; pinyin: zìfā zōngjiào), "lived (or living) religion" (Chinese: 生活宗教; pinyin: shēnghuó zōngjiào), "local religion" (Chinese: 地方宗教; pinyin: dìfāng zōngjiào), and "diffused religion" (Chinese: 分散性宗教; pinyin: fēnsàn xìng zōngjiào).[26] "Folk beliefs" (Chinese: 民間信仰; pinyin: mínjiān xìnyǎng),[27] is a seldom used term taken by scholars in colonial Taiwan from Japanese during Japan's occupation (1895–1945). It was used between the 1990s and the early 21st century among mainland Chinese scholars.[28]
"Shendao" (Chinese: 神道; pinyin: shéndào; lit. 'the Way of the Gods') is a term already used in the Yijing referring to the divine order of nature.[29] Around the time of the spread of Buddhism in the Han period (206 BCE – 220 CE), it was used to distinguish the indigenous ancient religion from the imported religion. Ge Hong used it in his Baopuzi as a synonym for Taoism.[30] The term was subsequently adopted in Japan in the 6th century as Shindo, later Shinto, with the same purpose of identification of the Japanese indigenous religion.[31][32] In the 14th century, the Hongwu Emperor (Taizu of the Ming dynasty, 1328–1398) used the term "Shendao" clearly identifying the indigenous cults, which he strengthened and systematised.[33]
"Chinese Universism", not in the sense of "universalism", that is a system of universal application, that is Tian in Chinese thought, is a coinage of Jan Jakob Maria de Groot that refers to the metaphysical perspective that lies behind the Chinese religious tradition. De Groot calls Chinese Universism "the ancient metaphysical view that serves as the basis of all classical Chinese thought. ... In Universism, the three components of integrated universe—understood epistemologically, 'heaven, earth and man', and understood ontologically, 'Taiji (the great beginning, the highest ultimate), yin and yang'—are formed".[34]
In 1931 Hu Shih argued that "Two great religions have played tremendously important roles throughout Chinese history. One is Buddhism which came to China probably before the Christian era but which began to exert nation-wide influence only after the third century A.D. The other great religion has had no generic name, but I propose to call it Siniticism. It is the native ancient religion of the Han Chinese people: it dates back to time immemorial, over 10,000 years old, and includes all such later phases of its development as Moism, Confucianism (as a state religion), and all the various stages of the Taoist religion."[35]
Attributes
[edit]Contemporary Chinese scholars have identified what they find to be the essential features of the ancient (or indigenous—ethnic) religion of China. According to Chen Xiaoyi (Chinese: 陳曉毅) local indigenous religion is the crucial factor for a harmonious "religious ecology" (Chinese: 宗教生態), that is the balance of forces in a given community.[36] Professor Han Bingfang (Chinese: 韓秉芳) has called for a rectification of distorted names (Chinese: 正名). Distorted names are "superstitious activities" (Chinese: 迷信活動; pinyin: míxìn huódòng) or "feudal superstition" (Chinese: 封建迷信; pinyin: fēngjiàn míxìn), that were derogatorily applied to the indigenous religion by leftist policies. Christian missionaries also used the propaganda label "feudal superstition" in order to undermine their religious competitor.[37] Han calls for the acknowledgment of the ancient Chinese religion for what it really is, the "core and soul of popular culture" (pinyin: sú wénhuà de héxīn yǔ línghún).[38]
According to Chen Jinguo (Chinese: 陳進國), the ancient Chinese religion is a core element of Chinese cultural and religious self-awareness (Chinese: 文化自覺, 信仰自覺; pinyin: wénhuà zìjué, xìnyǎng zìjué).[37] He has proposed a theoretical definition of Chinese indigenous religion in a trinity (Chinese: 三位一體; pinyin: sānwèiyītǐ), apparently inspired to Tang Junyi's thought:[39]
- substance (Chinese: 體; pinyin: tǐ): religiousness (Chinese: 宗教性; pinyin: zōngjiào xìng);
- function (Chinese: 用; pinyin: yòng): folkloricity (Chinese: 民俗性; pinyin: mínsú xìng);
- quality (Chinese: 相; pinyin: xiàng): Chineseness (Chinese: 中華性; pinyin: zhōnghuá xìng).
Characteristics
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Diversity and unity
[edit]Ancient Chinese religious practices are diverse, varying from province to province and even from one village to another, for religious behaviour is bound to local communities, kinship, and environments. In each setting, institution and ritual behaviour assumes highly organised forms. Temples and the gods in them acquire symbolic character and perform specific functions involved in the everyday life of the local community.[40] Local religion preserves aspects of naturalistic beliefs such as totemism,[41] animism, and shamanism.[42]
Ancient Chinese religion pervades all aspects of social life. Many scholars, following the lead of sociologist C. K. Yang, see the ancient Chinese religion deeply embedded in family and civic life, rather than expressed in a separate organizational structure like a "church", as in the West.[43]
Deity or temple associations and lineage associations, pilgrimage associations and formalized prayers, rituals and expressions of virtues, are the common forms of organization of Chinese religion on the local level.[40] Neither initiation rituals nor official membership into a church organization separate from one person's native identity are mandatory in order to be involved in religious activities.[40] Contrary to institutional religions, Chinese religion does not require "conversion" for participation.[43]
The prime criterion for participation in the ancient Chinese religion is not "to believe" in an official doctrine or dogma, but "to belong" to the local unit of an ancient Chinese religion, that is the "association", the "village" or the "kinship", with their gods and rituals.[40] Sociologist Richard Madsen describes the ancient Chinese religion, adopting the definition of Tu Weiming,[44] as characterized by "immanent transcendence" grounded in a devotion to "concrete humanity", focused on building moral community within concrete humanity.[45]
Inextricably linked to the aforementioned question to find an appropriate "name" for the ancient Chinese religion, is the difficulty to define it or clearly outline its boundaries. Old sinology, especially Western, tried to distinguish "popular" and "élite" traditions (the latter being Confucianism and Taoism conceived as independent systems). Chinese sinology later adopted another dichotomy which continues in contemporary studies, distinguishing "folk beliefs" (minjian xinyang) and "folk religion" (minjian zongjiao), the latter referring to the doctrinal sects.[46]
Many studies have pointed out that it is impossible to draw clear distinctions, and, since the 1970s, several sinologists[who?] swung to the idea of a unified "ancient Chinese religion" that would define the Chinese national identity, similarly to Hindu Dharma for India and Shinto for Japan. Other sinologists who have not espoused the idea of a unified "national religion" have studied Chinese religion as a system of meaning, or have brought further development in C. K. Yang's distinction between "institutional religion" and "diffused religion", the former functioning as a separate body from other social institutions, and the latter intimately part of secular social institutions.[47]
History
[edit]Prehistory
[edit]In the beginning of Chinese civilization, "[t]he most honored members of the family were...the ancestors", who lived in a spiritual world between heaven and earth and beseeched the gods of heaven and earth to influence the world to benefit their family.[48]
Imperial China
[edit]By the Han dynasty, the ancient Chinese religion mostly consisted of people organising into shè (Chinese: 社 ["group", "body", local community altars]) who worshipped their godly principle.[citation needed] In many cases the "lord of the she" was the god of the earth, and in others a deified virtuous person (xiān Chinese: 仙, "immortal"). Some cults such as that of Liu Zhang, a king in what is today Shandong, date back to this period.[49]
From the 3rd century on by the Northern Wei, accompanying the spread of Buddhism in China, strong influences from the Indian subcontinent penetrated the ancient Chinese indigenous religion. A cult of Ganesha (Chinese: 象頭神 Xiàngtóushén, "Elephant-Head God") is attested in the year 531.[50] Pollination from Indian religions included processions of carts with images of gods or floats borne on shoulders, with musicians and chanting.[49]
19th–20th century
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The ancient Chinese religion was subject to persecution in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many ancient temples were destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion in the late 1800s.[51] After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 "most temples were turned to other uses or were destroyed, with a few changed into schools".[52] During the Japanese invasion of China between 1937 and 1945 many temples were used as barracks by soldiers and destroyed in warfare.[51][53]
In the 19th century in the Guangdong region, monotheism, likely of a henotheistic and/or monolatrous character in at least some contexts and locations, was well-known and popular in Chinese folk religion.[54]
In the past, popular cults were regulated by imperial government policies, promoting certain deities while suppressing others.[55] In the 20th century, with the decline of the Qing dynasty, increasing urbanisation and Western influence, the issue for the new intellectuals who looked to the West was no longer controlling unauthorised worship of unregistered gods but the ancient Chinese religion itself, which they perceived as an issue halting modernisation.[56]
By 1899, 400 syncretic temples that combined folk religion elements and gods with Buddhist, Taoist, and/or Confucianist gods existed on the American West Coast alone.[57]
In 1904, a reform policy of the late Qing dynasty provided that schools would be built through the confiscation of temple property.[56] "Anti-superstition" campaigns followed. The Nationalist government of the Republic of China intensified the suppression of the ancient Chinese religion with the 1928 "Standards for retaining or abolishing gods and shrines"; the policy attempted to abolish the cults of all gods with the exception of ancient great human heroes and sages such as the Yellow Emperor, Yu the Great, Guan Yu, Sun Tzu, Mazu, Xuanzang, Kūkai, Buddha, Budai, Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, and Confucius.[58]
These policies were the background for those implemented by Communist Party after winning the Chinese Civil War and taking power in 1949.[58] The Cultural Revolution, between 1966 and 1976 of the Chairman Mao period in the PRC, was the most serious and last systematic effort to destroy the ancient Chinese religion, while in Taiwan the ancient Chinese religion was very well-preserved but controlled by Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chiang Kai-Shek during his Chinese Cultural Renaissance to counter the Cultural Revolution.[51][58]
After 1978 the ancient Chinese religion started to rapidly revive in China,[59][60] with millions of temples being rebuilt or built from scratch.[60] Since the 1980s the central government moved to a policy of benign neglect or wu wei (Chinese: 無為) in regard to rural community life, and the local government's new regulatory relationship with local society is characterised by practical mutual dependence; these factors have given much space for popular religion to develop.[60] In recent years, in some cases, local governments have taken an even positive and supportive attitude towards indigenous religion in the name of promoting cultural heritage.[60][61]
Instead of signaling the demise of traditional ancient religion, China and Taiwan's economic and technological industrialization and development has brought a spiritual renewal.[62]
Texts
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Ancient Chinese religion draws from a vast heritage of sacred books, which according to the general worldview treat cosmology, history and mythology, mysticism and philosophy, as aspects of the same thing. Historically, the revolutionary shift toward a preference for textual transmission and text-based knowledge over long-standing oral traditions first becomes detectable in the 1st century CE.[63] The spoken word, however, never lost its power. Rather than writing replacing the power of the spoken word, both existed side by side. Scriptures had to be recited and heard in order to be efficacious, and the limitations of written texts were acknowledged particularly in Taoism and folk religion.[64]
There are the classic books (Chinese: 經; pinyin: jīng; lit. 'warp') such as the Confucian canon including the "Four Books and Five Classics" (Chinese: 《四書五經》; pinyin: sìshū wǔjīng) and the "Classic of Filial Piety" (Chinese: 《孝經》; pinyin: xiàojīng), then there are the Mozi (Mohism), the Huainanzi, the Shizi and the Xunzi. The "Interactions Between Heaven and Mankind" (Chinese: 《天人感應》; pinyin: tiānrén gǎnyìng) is a set of Confucianised doctrines compiled in the Han dynasty by Dong Zhongshu, discussing politics in accordance with a personal Tian of whom mankind is viewed as the incarnation.
Taoism has a separate body of philosophical, theological and ritual literature, including the fundamental Daodejing (Chinese: 《道德經》; lit. 'Book of the Way and its Virtue'), the Daozang (Taoist Canon), the Liezi and the Zhuangzi, and a great number of other texts either included or not within the Taoist Canon. Vernacular literature and the folk religious sects have produced a great body of popular mythological and theological literature, the baojuan (Chinese: 寶卷; lit. 'precious scrolls').
Recent discovery of ancient books, such as the "Guodian texts" in the 1990s and the Huangdi sijing (Chinese: 《黃帝四經》; lit. 'Four Books of the Yellow Emperor') in the 1970s, has given rise to new interpretations of the ancient Chinese religion and new directions in its post-Maoist renewal. Many of these books overcome the dichotomy between Confucian and Taoist traditions.[65] The Guodian texts include, among others, the Taiyi Shengshui (Chinese: 《太一生水》; lit. 'The Great One Gives Birth to Water'). Another book attributed to the Yellow Emperor is the Huangdi yinfujing (Chinese: 《黃帝陰符經》; lit. 'Yellow Emperor's Book of the Hidden Symbol"').
Classical books of mythology include the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" (Chinese: 《山海經》; pinyin: shānhǎijīng), the "Record of Heretofore Lost Works" (Chinese: 《拾遺記; pinyin: shíyíjì), "The Peach Blossom Spring" (Chinese: 《桃花源記》; pinyin: táohuāyuánjì), the "Investiture of the Gods" (Chinese: 《封神演義》; pinyin: fēngshén yǎnyì), and the "Journey to the West" (Chinese: 《西遊記》; pinyin: xīyóujì) among others.
Core concepts of theology and cosmology
[edit]Fan and Chen summarise four spiritual, cosmological, and moral concepts:[10] Tian (Chinese: 天), Heaven, the source of moral meaning; qi (Chinese: 氣), the breath or substance of which all things are made; the practice of jingzu (Chinese: 敬祖), the veneration of ancestors; bao ying (Chinese: 報應), moral reciprocity.
Tian, its li and qi
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"Tian is dian Chinese: 顛 ('top'), the highest and unexceeded. It derives from the characters yi Chinese: 一, 'one', and da Chinese: 大, 'big'."[note 1]
Confucians, Taoists, and other schools of thought share basic concepts of Tian. Tian is both the physical heavens, the home of the sun, moon, and stars, and also the home of the gods and ancestors. Tian by extension is source of moral meaning, as seen in the political principle, the Mandate of Heaven, which holds that Tian, responding to human virtue, grants the imperial family the right to rule and withdraws it when the dynasty declines in virtue.[74] This creativity or virtue (de) in humans is the potentiality to transcend the given conditions and act wisely and morally.[75] Tian is therefore both transcendent and immanent.[75]
Tian is defined in many ways, with many names, the most widely known being Tàidì Chinese: 太帝 (the "Great Deity") and Shàngdì Chinese: 上帝 (the "Primordial Deity").[note 2] The concept of Shangdi is especially rooted in the tradition of the Shang dynasty, which gave prominence to the worship of ancestral gods and cultural heroes. The "Primordial Deity" or "Primordial Emperor" was considered to be embodied in the human realm as the lineage of imperial power.[82] Di (Chinese: 帝) is a term meaning "deity" or "emperor" (Latin: imperator, verb im-perare; "making from within"), used either as a name of the primordial god or as a title of natural gods,[83] describing a principle that exerts a fatherly dominance over what it produces.[84] With the Zhou dynasty, that preferred a religion focused on gods of nature, Tian became a more abstract and impersonal idea of God.[82] A popular representation is the Jade Deity (Chinese: 玉帝 Yùdì) or Jade Emperor (Chinese: 玉皇 Yùhuáng)[note 3] originally formulated by Taoists.[88] According to classical theology he manifests in five primary forms (Chinese: 五方上帝 Wǔfāng Shàngdì, "Five Forms of the Highest Deity").
The qi Chinese: 气 is the breath or substance of which all things are made, including inanimate matter, the living beings, thought and gods.[89][90] It is the continuum energy—matter.[91] Stephen F. Teiser (1996) translates it as "stuff" of "psychophysical stuff".[90] Neo-Confucian thinkers such as Zhu Xi developed the idea of li Chinese: 理, the "reason", "order" of Heaven, that is to say the pattern through which the qi develops, that is the polarity of yin and yang.[92][93] In Taoism the Tao Chinese: 道 ("Way") denotes in one concept both the impersonal absolute Tian and its order of manifestation (li).
Yin and yang—gui and shen
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Yin Chinese: 陰 and yang Chinese: 陽, whose root meanings respectively are "shady" and "sunny", or "dark" and "light", are modes of manifestation of the qi, not material things in themselves. Yin is the qi in its dense, dark, sinking, wet, condensing mode; yang denotes the light, and the bright, rising, dry, expanding modality. Described as Taiji (the "Great Pole"), they represent the polarity and complementarity that enlivens the cosmos.[93] They can also be conceived as "disorder" and "order", "activity" or "passivity", with act (yang) usually preferred over receptiveness (yin).[15]
The concept Chinese: 神 "shén" (cognate of Chinese: 申 shēn, "extending, expanding"[95]) is translated as "gods" or "spirits". There are shén of nature; gods who were once people, such as the warrior Guan Gong; household gods, such as the Stove God; as well as ancestral gods (zu or zuxian).[96] In the domain of humanity the shen is the "psyche", or the power or agency within humans.[97] They are intimately involved in the life of this world.[97] As spirits of stars, mountains and streams, shen exert a direct influence on things, making phenomena appear and things grow or extend themselves.[97] An early Chinese dictionary, the Shuowen jiezi by Xu Shen, explains that they "are the spirits of Heaven" and they "draw out the ten thousand things".[97] As forces of growth the gods are regarded as yang, opposed to a yin class of entities called Chinese: 鬼 "guǐ" (cognate of Chinese: 歸 guī, "return, contraction"),[95] chaotic beings.[98] A disciple of Zhu Xi noted that "between Heaven and Earth there is no thing that does not consist of yin and yang, and there is no place where yin and yang are not found. Therefore, there is no place where gods and spirits do not exist".[98] The dragon is a symbol of yang, the principle of generation.[82]
In Taoist and Confucian thought, the supreme God and its order and the multiplicity of shen are identified as one and the same.[99] In the Yizhuan, a commentary to the Yijing, it is written that "one yin and one yang are called the Tao ... the unfathomable change of yin and yang is called shen".[99] In other texts, with a tradition going back to the Han period, the gods and spirits are explained to be names of yin and yang, forces of contraction and forces of growth.[99]
While in popular thought they have conscience and personality,[100] Neo-Confucian scholars tended to rationalise them.[101] Zhu Xi wrote that they act according to the li.[95] Zhang Zai wrote that they are "the inherent potential (liang neng) of the two ways of qi".[102] Cheng Yi said that they are "traces of the creative process".[95] Chen Chun wrote that shen and gui are expansions and contractions, going and coming, of yin and yang—qi.[95]
Hun and po, and zu and xian
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Like all things in matter, the human soul is characterised by a dialectic of yang and yin. These correspond to the hun and po (Chinese: 魂魄) respectively. The hun is the traditionally "masculine", yang, rational soul or mind, and the po is the traditionally "feminine", yin, animal soul that is associated with the body.[103] Hun (mind) is the soul (shen) that gives a form to the vital breath (qi) of humans, and it develops through the po, stretching and moving intelligently in order to grasp things.[104] The po is the soul (shen) which controls the physiological and psychological activities of humans,[105] while the hun, the shen attached to the vital breath (qi), is the soul (shen) that is totally independent of corporeal substance.[105] The hun is independent and perpetual, and as such it never allows itself to be limited in matter.[105][note 6] Otherwise said, the po is the "earthly" (di) soul that goes downward, while the hun is the "heavenly" (tian) soul that moves upward.[97]
To extend life to its full potential the human shen must be cultivated, resulting in ever clearer, more luminous states of being.[14] It can transform in the pure intelligent breath of deities.[105] In the human psyche there's no distinction between rationality and intuition, thinking and feeling: the human being is xin (Chinese: 心), mind-heart.[91] With death, while the po returns to the earth and disappears, the hun is thought to be pure awareness or qi, and is the shen to whom ancestral sacrifices are dedicated.[106]
The shen of men who are properly cultivated and honoured after their death are upheld ancestors and progenitors (zuxian Chinese: 祖先 or zu Chinese: 祖).[96] When ancestries aren't properly cultivated the world falls into disruption, and they become gui.[96] Ancestral worship is intertwined with totemism, as the earliest ancestors of an ethnic lineage are often represented as animals or associated to them.[41][107]
Ancestors are means of connection with the Tian, the primordial god which does not have form.[41] As ancestors have form, they shape the destiny of humans.[41] Ancestors who have had a significant impact in shaping the destiny of large groups of people, creators of genetic lineages or spiritual traditions, and historical leaders who have invented crafts and institutions for the wealth of the Chinese nation (culture heroes), are exalted among the highest divine manifestations or immortal beings (xian Chinese: 仙).[108]
In fact, in the Chinese tradition there is no distinction between gods (shen) and immortal beings (xian), transcendental principles and their bodily manifestations.[109] Gods can incarnate with a human form and human beings can reach higher spiritual states by the right way of action, that is to say by emulating the order of Heaven.[110] Humans are considered one of the three aspects of a trinity (Chinese: 三才 Sāncái, "Three Powers"),[111] the three foundations of all being; specifically, men are the medium between Heaven that engenders order and forms and Earth which receives and nourishes them.[111] Men are endowed with the role of completing creation.[111][note 7]
Bao ying and ming yun
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The Chinese traditional concept of bao ying ("reciprocity", "retribution" or "judgement"), is inscribed in the cosmological view of an ordered world, in which all manifestations of being have an allotted span (shu) and destiny,[113] and are rewarded according to the moral-cosmic quality of their actions.[114] It determines fate, as written in Zhou texts: "on the doer of good, heaven sends down all blessings, and on the doer of evil, he sends down all calamities" (Chinese: 書經•湯誥).[115]
The cosmic significance of bao ying is better understood by exploring other two traditional concepts of fate and meaning:[11]
- Ming yun (Chinese: 命運), the personal destiny or given condition of a being in his world, in which ming is "life" or "right", the given status of life, and yun defines both "circumstance" and "individual choice"; ming is given and influenced by the transcendent force Tian (Chinese: 天), that is the same as the "divine right" (tianming) of ancient rulers as identified by Mencius.[11] Personal destiny (ming yun) is thus perceived as both fixed (as life itself) and flexible, open-ended (since the individual can choose how to behave in bao ying).[11]
- Yuan fen (Chinese: 緣分), "fateful coincidence",[12] describing good and bad chances and potential relationships.[12] Scholars K. S. Yang and D. Ho have analysed the psychological advantages of this belief: assigning causality of both negative and positive events to yuan fen reduces the conflictual potential of guilt and pride, and preserves social harmony.[116]
Ming yun and yuan fen are linked, because what appears on the surface to be chance (either positive or negative), is part of the deeper rhythm that shapes personal life based on how destiny is directed.[114] Recognising this connection has the result of making a person responsible for his or her actions:[115] doing good for others spiritually improves oneself and contributes to the harmony between men and environmental gods and thus to the wealth of a human community.[117]
These three themes of the Chinese tradition—moral reciprocity, personal destiny, fateful coincidence—are completed by a fourth notion:[118]
- Wu (Chinese: 悟), "awareness" of bao ying. The awareness of one's own given condition inscribed in the ordered world produces responsibility towards oneself and others; awareness of yuan fen stirs to respond to events rather than resigning.[118] Awareness may arrive as a gift, often unbidden, and then it evolves into a practice that the person intentionally follows.[118]
As part of the trinity of being (the Three Powers), humans are not totally submissive to spiritual force.[112] While under the sway of spiritual forces, humans can actively engage with them, striving to change their own fate to prove the worth of their earthly life.[112] In the Chinese traditional view of human destiny, the dichotomy between "fatalism" and "optimism" is overcome; human beings can shape their personal destiny to grasp their real worth in the transformation of the universe, seeing their place in the alliance with the gods and with Heaven to surpass the constraints of the physical body and mind.[112]
Ling and xianling—holy and numen
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In Chinese religion the concept of ling (Chinese: 靈) is the equivalent of holy and numen.[119] Shen in the meaning of "spiritual" is a synonym.[98] The Yijing states that "spiritual means not measured by yin and yang".[98] Ling is the state of the "medium" of the bivalency (yin-yang), and thus it is identical with the inchoate order of creation.[15] Things inspiring awe or wonder because they cannot be understood as either yin or yang, because they cross or disrupt the polarity and therefore cannot be conceptualised, are regarded as numinous.[98] Entities possessing unusual spiritual characteristics, such as albino members of a species, beings that are part animal part human, or people who die in unusual ways such as suicide or on battlefields, are considered numinous.[98]
The notion of xian ling (Chinese: 顯靈), variously translated as "divine efficacy, virtue" or the "numen", is important for the relationship between people and gods.[120] It describes the manifestation, activity, of the power of a god (Chinese: 靈氣 ling qi, "divine energy" or "effervescence"), the evidence of the holy.[121]
The term xian ling may be interpreted as the god revealing their presence in a particular area and temple,[122] through events that are perceived as extraordinary, miraculous.[122] Divine power usually manifests in the presence of a wide public.[122] The "value" of human deities (xian) is judged according to their efficacy.[123] The perceived effectiveness of a deity to protect or bless also determines how much they should be worshipped, how big a temple should be built in their honour, and what position in the broader pantheon they would attain.[123]
Zavidovskaya (2012) has studied how the incentive of temple restorations since the 1980s in northern China was triggered by numerous alleged instances of gods becoming "active" and "returning", reclaiming their temples and place in society.[122] She mentions the example of a Chenghuang Temple in Yulin, Shaanxi, that was turned into a granary during the Cultural Revolution; it was restored to its original function in the 1980s after seeds stored within were always found to have rotted. This phenomenon, which locals attributed to the god Chenghuang, was taken a sign to empty his residence of grain and allow him back in.[122] The ling qi, divine energy, is believed to accumulate in certain places, temples, making them holy.[122] Temples with a longer history are considered holier than newly built ones, which still need to be filled by divine energy.[122]
Another example Zavidovskaya cites is the cult of the god Zhenwu in Congluo Yu, Shanxi;[124] the god's temples were in ruins and the cult inactive until the mid-1990s, when a man with terminal cancer, in his last hope prayed (bai Chinese: 拜) to Zhenwu. The man began to miraculously recover each passing day, and after a year he was completely healed.[124] As thanksgiving, he organised an opera performance in the god's honour.[124] A temporary altar with a statue of Zhenwu and a stage for the performance were set up in an open space at the foot of a mountain.[124] During the course of the opera, large white snakes appeared, passive and unafraid of the people, seemingly watching the opera; the snakes were considered by locals to be incarnations of Zhenwu, come to watch the opera held in his honour.[124]
Within temples, it is common to see banners bearing the phrase "if the heart is sincere, the god will reveal their power" (Chinese: 心誠神靈 xin cheng shen ling).[125] The relationship between people and gods is an exchange of favour.[125] This implies the belief that gods respond to the entreaties of the believer if their religious fervour is sincere (cheng xin Chinese: 誠心).[125] If a person believes in the god's power with all their heart and expresses piety, the gods are confident in their faith and reveal their efficacious power.[125] At the same time, for faith to strengthen in the devotee's heart, the deity has to prove their efficacy.[125] In exchange for divine favours, a faithful honours the deity with vows (huan yuan Chinese: 還願 or xu yuan Chinese: 許願), through individual worship, reverence and respect (jing shen Chinese: 敬神).[125]
The most common display of divine power is the cure of diseases after a believer piously requests aid.[122] Another manifestation is granting a request of children.[122] The deity may also manifest through mediumship, entering the body of a shaman-medium and speaking through them.[122] There have been cases of people curing illnesses "on behalf of a god" (ti shen zhi bing Chinese: 替神治病).[124] Gods may also speak to people when they are asleep (tuomeng Chinese: 託夢).[122]
Sociological typology
[edit]Wu Hsin-Chao (2014) distinguishes four kinds of Chinese traditional religious organisation:[126] ancestry worship; deity worship; secret societies; and folk religious sects.
Types of indigenous—ethnic religion
[edit]Worship of local and national deities
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Chinese religion in its communal expression involves the worship of gods that are the generative power and tutelary spirit (genius loci) of a locality or a certain aspect of nature (for example water gods, river gods, fire gods, mountain gods), or of gods that are common ancestors of a village, a larger identity, or the Chinese nation (Shennong, Huangdi, Pangu).
The social structure of this religion is the shénshè Chinese: 神社 (literally "society of a god"), synonymous with shehui Chinese: 社會, in which shè Chinese: 社 originally meant the altar of a community's earth god,[127] while Chinese: 會 huì means "association", "assembly", "church" or "gathering". This type of religious trusts can be dedicated to a god which is bound to a single village or temple or to a god which has a wider following, in multiple villages, provinces or even a national importance. Mao Zedong distinguished "god associations", "village communities" and "temple associations" in his analysis of religious trusts.[128] In his words: "every kind and type of god [shen] can have an association [hui]", for example the Zhaogong Association, the Guanyin Association, the Guangong Association, the Dashen Association, the Bogong Association, the Wenchang Association, and the like.[128] Within the category of hui Mao also distinguished the sacrifice associations (jiàohuì Chinese: 醮會) which make sacrifices in honour of gods.[128]
These societies organise gatherings and festivals (miaohui Chinese: 廟會) participated by members of the whole village or larger community on the occasions of what are believed to be the birthdays of the gods or other events,[60] or to seek protection from droughts, epidemics, and other disasters.[60] Such festivals invoke the power of the gods for practical goals to "summon blessings and drive away harm".[60] Special devotional currents within this framework can be identified by specific names such as Mazuism (Chinese: 媽祖教 Māzǔjiào),[129] Wang Ye worship, or the cult of the Silkworm Mother.[130]
This type of religion is prevalent in north China, where lineage religion is absent, private, or historically present only within families of southern origin, and patrilineal ties are based on seniority,[131][132] and villages are composed of people with different surnames. In this context, the deity societies or temple societies function as poles of the civil organism.[133] Often deity societies incorporate entire villages; this is the reason why in north China there can be found many villages which are named after deities and their temples, for example Léishénmiào village (Chinese: 雷神廟 "[Village of the] Temple of the Thunder God") or Mǎshénmiàocūn (Chinese: 馬神廟村 "Village of the Temple of the Horse God").
Lineage religion
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Another dimension of the Chinese folk religion is based on family or genealogical worship of deities and ancestors in family altars or private temples (simiao Chinese: 私廟 or jiamiao Chinese: 家廟), or ancestral shrines (citang Chinese: 祠堂 or zongci Chinese: 宗祠, or also zumiao Chinese: 祖廟).[134] Kinship associations or churches (zōngzú xiéhuì Chinese: 宗族協會), congregating people with the same surname and belonging to the same kin, are the social expression of this religion: these lineage societies build temples where the deified ancestors of a certain group (for example the Chens or the Lins) are enshrined and worshiped.[135] These temples serve as centres of aggregation for people belonging to the same lineage, and the lineage body may provide a context of identification and mutual assistance for individual persons.[135]
The construction of large and elaborate ancestral temples traditionally represents a kin's wealth, influence and achievement.[136] Scholar K. S. Yang has explored the ethno-political dynamism of this form of religion, through which people who become distinguished for their value and virtue are considered immortal and receive posthumous divine titles, and are believed to protect their descendants, inspiring a mythological lore for the collective memory of a family or kin.[137]
If their temples and their deities enshrined acquire popularity they are considered worthy of the virtue of ling, "efficacy".[137] Worship of ancestors (jingzu Chinese: 敬祖) is observed nationally with large-scale rituals on Qingming Festival and other holidays.
This type of religion prevails in south China, where lineage bonds are stronger and the patrilineal hierarchy is not based upon seniority, and access to corporate resources held by a lineage is based upon the equality of all the lines of descent.[132]
Philosophical and ritual modalities
[edit]Wuism and shamanic traditions
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"The extent to which shamanism pervaded ancient Chinese society", says Paul R. Goldin (2005), "is a matter of scholarly dispute, but there can be no doubt that many communities relied upon the unique talents of shamans for their quotidian spiritual needs".[138] The Chinese usage distinguishes the Chinese wu tradition or "Wuism" as it was called by Jan Jakob Maria de Groot[139] (Chinese: 巫教 wūjiào; properly shamanic, with control over the gods) from the tongji tradition (Chinese: 童乩; mediumship, without control of the godly movement), and from non-Han Chinese Altaic shamanisms (Chinese: 薩滿教 sàmǎnjiào) that are practised in northern provinces.
According to Andreea Chirita (2014), Confucianism itself, with its emphasis on hierarchy and ancestral rituals, derived from the shamanic discourse of the Shang dynasty. What Confucianism did was to marginalise the "dysfunctional" features of old shamanism. However, shamanic traditions continued uninterrupted within the folk religion and found precise and functional forms within Taoism.[140]
In the Shang and Zhou dynasty, shamans had a role in the political hierarchy, and were represented institutionally by the Ministry of Rites (Chinese: 大宗伯). The emperor was considered the supreme shaman, intermediating between the three realms of heaven, earth and man. The mission of a shaman (Chinese: 巫 wu) is "to repair the dis-functionalities occurred in nature and generated after the sky had been separated from earth":[140]
The female shamans called wu as well as the male shamans called xi represent the voice of spirits, repair the natural dis-functions, foretell the future based on dreams and the art of divination ... "a historical science of the future", whereas shamans are able to observe the yin and the yang ...
Since the 1980s the practice and study of shamanism has undergone a massive revival in Chinese religion as a means to repair the world to a harmonious whole after industrialisation.[140] Shamanism is viewed by many scholars as the foundation for the emergence of civilisation, and the shaman as "teacher and spirit" of peoples. The Chinese Society for Shamanic Studies was founded in Jilin City in 1988.[141]
Nuo folk religion is a system of the Chinese folk religion with distinct institutions and cosmology present especially in central-southern China. It arose as an exorcistic religious movement, and it is interethnic but also intimately connected to the Tujia people.[142]
Confucianism, Taoism and orders of ritual masters
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Confucianism and Taoism—which are formalised, ritual, doctrinal or philosophical traditions—can be considered both as embedded within the larger category of Chinese religion, or as separate religions. In fact, one can practise certain folk cults and espouse the tenets of Confucianism as a philosophical framework, Confucian theology instructing to uphold the moral order through the worship of gods and ancestors[143] that is the way of connecting to the Tian and awakening to its harmony (li, "rite").[144]
Folk temples and ancestral shrines on special occasions may choose Confucian liturgy (that is called Chinese: 儒 rú, or sometimes Chinese: 正統 zhèngtǒng, meaning "orthoprax" ritual style) led by Confucian "sages of rites" (Chinese: 禮生 lǐshēng) who in many cases are the elders of a local community. Confucian liturgies are alternated with Taoist liturgies and popular ritual styles.[145]
There are many organised groups of the folk religion that adopt Confucian liturgy and identity, for example the Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition or phoenix churches (Luanism), or the Confucian churches, schools and fellowships such as the Yīdān xuétáng (Chinese: 一耽學堂) of Beijing,[146] the Mèngmǔtáng (Chinese: 孟母堂) of Shanghai,[147] the Confucian Fellowship (Chinese: 儒教道壇 Rújiào Dàotán) in northern Fujian, and ancestral temples of the Kong (Confucius) lineage operating as well as Confucian-teaching churches.[147] In November 2015 a national Church of Confucius was established with the contribution of many Confucian leaders.
Scholar and Taoist priest Kristofer Schipper defines Taoism as a "liturgical framework" for the development of local religion.[148] Some currents of Taoism are deeply interwoven with the Chinese folk religion, especially the Zhengyi school, developing aspects of local cults within their doctrines;[148] however Taoists always highlight the distinction between their traditions and those which are not Taoist. Priests of Taoism are called daoshi (Chinese: 道士), literally meaning "masters of the Tao", otherwise commonly translated as the "Taoists", as common followers and folk believers who are not part of Taoist orders are not identified as such.
Taoists of the Zhengyi school, who are called sǎnjū dàoshi (Chinese: 散居道士) or huǒjū dàoshi (Chinese: 火居道士), respectively meaning "scattered daoshi" and "daoshi living at home (hearth)", because they can get married and perform the profession of priests as a part-time occupation, may perform rituals of offering (jiao), thanks-giving, propitiation, exorcism and rites of passage for local communities' temples and private homes.[149] Local gods of local cultures are often incorporated into their altars.[149] The Zhengyi Taoists are trained by other priests of the same sect, and historically received formal ordination by the Celestial Master,[150] although the 63rd Celestial Master Zhang Enpu fled to Taiwan in the 1940s during the Chinese Civil War.
Lineages of ritual masters (Chinese: 法師 fashi), also referred to as practitioners of "Faism", also called "Folk Taoism" or (in southeast China) "Red Taoism", operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside any institution of official Taoism.[150] The ritual masters, who have the same role of the sanju daoshi within the fabric of society, are not considered Taoist priests by the daoshi of Taoism who trace their lineage to the Celestial Masters and by Taoists officially registered with the state Taoist Church. Fashi are defined as of "kataphatic" (filling) character in opposition to professional Taoists who are "kenotic" (of emptying, or apophatic, character).[151]
Organised folk religious sects
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China has a long history of sect traditions characterised by a soteriological and eschatological character, often called "salvationist religions" (Chinese: 救度宗教 jiùdù zōngjiào).[152] They emerged from the common religion but are not part of the lineage cult of ancestors and progenitors, nor the communal deity religion of village temples, neighbourhood, corporations, or national temples.[153]
Prasenjit Duara has termed them "redemptive societies" (Chinese: 救世團體 jiùshì tuántǐ),[154][155] while modern Chinese scholarship describes them as "folk religious sects" (Chinese: 民間宗教 mínjiān zōngjiào, Chinese: 民間教門 mínjiān jiàomén or Chinese: 民间教派 mínjiān jiàopài),[156] abandoning the derogatory term used by imperial officials, xiéjiào (Chinese: 邪教), "evil religion".[157]
They are characterised by several elements, including egalitarianism; foundation by a charismatic figure; direct divine revelation; a millenarian eschatology and voluntary path of salvation; an embodied experience of the numinous through healing and cultivation; and an expansive orientation through good deeds, evangelism and philanthropy.[152] Their practices are focused on improving morality, body cultivation, and recitation of scriptures.[152]
Many of the redemptive religions of the 20th and 21st century aspire to become the repository of the entirety of the Chinese tradition in the face of Western modernism and materialism.[158] This group of religions includes[159] Yiguandao and other sects belonging to the Xiantiandao (Chinese: 先天道 "Way of Former Heaven"), Jiugongdao (Chinese: 九宮道 "Way of the Nine Palaces"), various proliferations of the Luo teaching, the Zaili teaching, and the more recent De teaching, Weixinist, Xuanyuan and Tiandi teachings, the latter two focused respectively on the worship of Huangdi and the universal God. Also, the qigong schools are developments of the same religious context.[160]
These folk sectarian offer different world views and compete for influence. To take one example, Yiguandao focuses on personal salvation through inner work and considers itself the most valid "Way of Heaven" (Chinese: 天道 Tiāndào). Yiguandao offers its own "Way of Former Heaven" (Chinese: 先天道 Xiāntiāndào), that is, a cosmological definition of the state of things prior to creation, in unity with God. It regards the other Luanism, a cluster of churches which focus on social morality through refined Confucian ritual to worship the gods, as the "Way of Later Heaven" (Chinese: 後天道 Hòutiāndào), that is the cosmological state of created things.[161]
These movements were banned in the early Republican China and later Communist China. Many of them still remain illegal, underground or unrecognised in China, while others—specifically the De teaching, Tiandi teachings, Xuanyuan teaching, Weixinism and Yiguandao—have developed cooperation with mainland China's academic and non-governmental organisations.[6] The Sanyi teaching is an organised folk religion founded in the 16th century, present in the Putian region (Xinghua) of Fujian where it is legally recognised.[6] Some of these sects began to register as branches of the state Taoist Association since the 1990s.[162]
A further distinctive type of sects of the folk religion, that are possibly the same as the positive "secret sects", are the martial sects. They combine two aspects: the wénchǎng (Chinese: 文場 "cultural field"), that is the doctrinal aspect characterised by elaborate cosmologies, theologies, initiatory and ritual patterns, and that is usually kept secretive; and the wǔchǎng (Chinese: 武場 "martial field"), that is the body cultivation practice and that is usually the "public face" of the sect.[163] They were outlawed by Ming imperial edicts that continued to be enforced until the fall of the Qing dynasty in the 20th century.[163] An example of martial sect is Meihuaism (Chinese: 梅花教 Méihuājiào, "Plum Flowers"), that has become very popular throughout northern China.[163][164] In Taiwan, virtually all of the "redemptive societies" operate freely since the late 1980s.
Tiandi teachings
[edit]The Tiandi teachings are a religion that encompasses two branches, the Holy Church of the Heavenly Virtue (Chinese: 天德聖教 Tiāndé shèngjiào) and the Church of the Heavenly Deity (Chinese: 天帝教 Tiāndìjiào), both emerged from the teachings of Xiao Changming and Li Yujie, disseminated in the early 20th century.[165] The latter is actually an outgrowth of the former established in the 1980s.[165]
The religions focus on the worship of Tiandi (Chinese: 天帝), the "Heavenly Deity" or "Heavenly Emperor",[165] on health through the proper cultivation of qi,[165] and teach a style of qigong named Tianren qigong.[166] According to scholars, Tiandi teachings derive from the Taoist tradition of Huashan,[167] where Li Yujie studied for eight years.[168] The Church of the Heavenly Deity is very active both in Taiwan and mainland China, where it has high-level links.[165]
Weixinism
[edit]Weixinism (Chinese: 唯心聖教; pinyin: Wéixīn shèngjiào; lit. 'Holy Religion of the Only Heart' or 唯心教; Wéixīnjiào) is a religion primarily focused on the "orthodox lineages of Yijing and feng shui",[169] the Hundred Schools of Thought,[170] and worship of the "three great ancestors" (Huangdi, Yandi and Chiyou).[171] The movement promotes the restoration of the authentic roots of the Chinese civilization and Chinese unification.[170]
The Weixinist Church, whose headquarters are in Taiwan, is also active in Mainland China in the key birthplaces of the Chinese culture. It has links with the government of Henan where it has established the "City of Eight Trigrams" templar complex on Yunmeng Mountain (of the Yan Mountains),[172] and it has also built temples in Hebei.[173]
Geographic and ethnic variations
[edit]North and south divides
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Recent scholarly works have found basic differences between north and south folk religion.[174] Folk religion of southern and southeastern provinces is focused on the lineages and their churches (zōngzú xiéhuì Chinese: 宗族協會) focusing on ancestral gods, while the folk religion of central-northern China (North China Plain) hinges on the communal worship of tutelary deities of creation and nature as identity symbols by villages populated by families of different surnames.[133] They are structured into "communities of the god(s)" (shénshè Chinese: 神社, or huì Chinese: 會, "association"),[127] which organise temple ceremonies (miaohui Chinese: 廟會), involving processions and pilgrimages,[175] and led by indigenous ritual masters (fashi) who are often hereditary and linked to secular authority.[note 10]
Northern and southern folk religions also have a different pantheon, of which the northern one is composed of more ancient gods of Chinese mythology.[176] Furthermore, folk religious sects have historically been more successful in the central plains and in the northeastern provinces than in southern China, and central-northern folk religion shares characteristics of some of the sects, such as the heavy importance of mother goddess worship and shamanism,[177] as well as their scriptural transmission.[174]: 92 Confucian churches as well have historically found much resonance among the population of the northeast; in the 1930s the Universal Church of the Way and its Virtue alone aggregated at least 25% of the population of the state of Manchuria[178] and contemporary Shandong has been analysed as an area of rapid growth of folk Confucian groups.[179]
Along the southeastern coast, ritual functions of the folk religion are reportedly dominated by Taoism, both in registered and unregistered forms (Zhengyi Taoism and unrecognised fashi orders), which since the 1990s has developed quickly in the area.[180][181]
Goossaert talks of this distinction, although recognising it as an oversimplification, of a "Taoist south" and a "village-religion/Confucian centre-north",[174]: 47 with the northern context also characterised by important orders of "folk Taoist" ritual masters, one of which are the Chinese: 陰陽生 yīnyángshēng ("sages of yin and yang"),[182][174]: 86 and sectarian traditions,[174]: 92 and also by a low influence of Buddhism and official Taoism.[174]: 90
The folk religion of northeast China has unique characteristics deriving from the interaction of Han religion with Tungus and Manchu shamanisms; these include chūmǎxiān (Chinese: 出馬仙 "riding for the immortals") shamanism, the worship of foxes and other zoomorphic deities, and the Fox Gods (Chinese: 狐神 Húshén)—Great Lord of the Three Foxes (Chinese: 胡三太爺 Húsān Tàiyé) and the Great Lady of the Three Foxes (Chinese: 胡三太奶 Húsān Tàinǎi)—at the head of pantheons.[183] Otherwise, in the religious context of Inner Mongolia there has been a significant integration of Han Chinese into the traditional folk religion of the region.
In recent years[when?] there has also been an assimilation of deities from Tibetan folk religion, especially wealth gods.[184] In Tibet, across broader western China, and in Inner Mongolia, there has been a growth of the cult of Gesar with the explicit support of the Chinese government, a cross-ethnic Han-Tibetan, Mongol and Manchu deity (the Han identify him as an aspect of the god of war analogically with Guandi) and culture hero whose mythology is embodied as a culturally important epic poem.[185]
"Taoised" indigenous religions of ethnic minorities
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Chinese religion has both influenced, and in turn has been influenced by, indigenous religions of ethnic groups that the Han Chinese have encountered along their ethnogenetic history. Seiwert (1987) finds evidence of pre-Chinese religions in the folk religion of certain southeastern provinces such as Fujian and Taiwan, especially in the local wu and lineages of ordained ritual masters.[186]: 44
A process of sinicization, or more appropriately a "Taoisation", is also the more recent experience of the indigenous religions of some distinct ethnic minorities of China, especially southwestern people. Chinese Taoists gradually penetrate within the indigenous religions of such peoples, in some cases working side by side with indigenous priests, in other cases taking over the latter's function and integrating them by requiring their ordination as Taoists.[186]: 45 Usually, indigenous ritual practices remain unaffected and are adopted into Taoist liturgy, while indigenous gods are identified with Chinese gods.[186]: 47 Seiwert discusses this phenomenon of "merger into Chinese folk religion" not as a mere elimination of non-Chinese indigenous religions, but rather as a cultural re-orientation. Local priests of southwestern ethnic minorities often acquire prestige by identifying themselves as Taoists and adopting Taoist holy texts.[186]: 47
Mou (2012) writes that "Taoism has formed an indissoluble bond" with indigenous religions of southwestern ethnic minorities, especially the Tujia, Yi and Yao.[187] Seiwert mentions the Miao of Hunan.[186]: 45 "Daogongism" is Taoism among the Zhuang, directed by the dàogōng (Chinese: 道公 "lords of the Tao") and it forms an established important aspect of the broader Zhuang folk religion.[188]
On the other hand, it is also true that in more recent years there has been a general revival of indigenous lineages of ritual masters without identification of these as Taoists and support from the state Chinese Taoist Church. An example is the revival of lineages of bimo ("scripture sages") priests among the Yi peoples. Bimoism has a tradition of theological literature and though clergy ordination, and this is among the reasons why it is taken in high consideration by the Chinese government.[189] Bamo Ayi (2001) attests that "since the early 1980s ... minority policy turned away from promoting assimilation of Han ways".[190]: 118
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| Kuixing ("Chief Star"), the god of exams, composed of the characters describing the four Confucian virtues (Sìde Chinese: 四德), standing on the head of the ao (Chinese: 鰲) turtle (an expression for coming first in the examinations), and pointing at the Big Dipper (Chinese: 斗)".[note 11] |
Theory of hierarchy and divinity
[edit]Chinese religions are polytheistic, meaning that many deities are worshipped as part of what has been defined as yǔzhòu shénlùn (Chinese: 宇宙神論), translated as "cosmotheism", a worldview in which divinity is inherent to the world itself.[88] The gods (shen Chinese: 神; "growth", "beings that give birth"[192]) are interwoven energies or principles that generate phenomena which reveal or reproduce the way of Heaven, that is to say the order (li) of the Greatnine(Tian).[note 2]
In Chinese tradition, there is not a clear distinction between the gods and their physical body or bodies (from stars to trees and animals);[193] the qualitative difference between the two seems not to have ever been emphasised.[193] Rather, the disparity is said to be more quantitative than qualitative.[193] In doctrinal terms, the Chinese view of gods is related to the understanding of qi, the life force,[193] as the gods and their phenomenal productions are manifestations of it.[193] In this way, all natural bodies are believed to be able to attain supernatural attributes by acting according to the universal oneness.[193] Meanwhile, acting wickedly (that is to say against the Tian and its order) brings to disgrace and disaster.[194]
In folk religions, gods (shen) and immortals (xian Chinese: 仙) are not specifically distinguished from each other.[195] Gods can incarnate in human form and human beings can reach immortality, which means to attain higher spirituality, since all the spiritual principles (gods) are begotten of the primordial qi before any physical manifestation.[110]
In the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Confucian four books, the zhenren (wise) is the man who has achieved a spiritual status developing his true sincere nature.[196] This status, in turn, enables him to fully develop the true nature of others and of all things.[196] The sage is able to "assist the transforming and nourishing process of Heaven and Earth", forming a trinity (三才 Sāncái, the "Three Powers") with them.[196] In other words, in the Chinese tradition humans are or can be the medium between Heaven and Earth, and have the role of completing what had been initiated.[note 7]
Taoist schools in particular espouse an explicit spiritual pathway which pushes the earthly beings to the edge of eternity.[112] Since the human body is a microcosm, enlivened by the universal order of yin and yang like the whole cosmos, the means of immortality can be found within oneself.[112]
Among those worshipped as immortal heroes (xian, exalted beings) are historical individuals distinguished for their worth or bravery, those who taught crafts to others and formed societies establishing the order of Heaven, ancestors or progenitors (zu Chinese: 祖), and the creators of a spiritual tradition.[108][197] The concept of "human divinity" is not self-contradictory, as there is no unbridgeable gap between the two realms; rather, the divine and the human are mutually contained.[196]
In comparison with gods of an environmental nature, who tend to remain stable throughout human experience and history, individual human deities change in time. Some endure for centuries, while others remain localised cults, or vanish after a short time.[193] Immortal beings are conceived as "constellations of qi", which is so vibrant in certain historical individuals that, upon the person's death, this qi nexus does not dissipate but persists, and is reinforced by living people's worship.[198] The energetic power of a god is thought to reverberate on the worshipers influencing their fortune.[198]
Deities and immortals
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Gods and immortals (collectively Chinese: 神仙 shénxiān) in the Chinese cultural tradition reflect a hierarchical, multiperspective experience of divinity.[192] In Chinese language there is a terminological distinction between Chinese: 神 shén, Chinese: 帝 dì and Chinese: 仙 xiān. Although the usage of the former two is sometimes blurred, it corresponds to the distinction in Western cultures between "god" and "deity", Latin genius (meaning a generative principle, "spirit") and deus or divus; dì, sometimes translated as "thearch", implies a manifested or incarnate "godly" power.[note 12][200] It is etymologically and figuratively analogous to the concept of di as the base of a fruit, which falls and produces other fruits. This analogy is attested in the Shuowen jiezi explaining "deity" as "what faces the base of a melon fruit".[201]
Many classical books have lists and hierarchies of gods and immortals, among which the "Completed Record of Deities and Immortals" (Chinese: 神仙通鑒 Shénxiān tōngjiàn) of the Ming dynasty,[110] and the "Biographies of Deities and Immortals" (Chinese: 神仙傳 Shénxiān zhuán) by Ge Hong (284–343).[195] There's also the older Liexian zhuan (Chinese: 列仙傳 "Collected Biographies of Immortals").
There are the great cosmic gods representing the first principle in its unmanifested state or its creative order—Yudi (Chinese: 玉帝 "Jade Deity")[note 3] and Doumu (Chinese: 斗母 "Mother of the Meaning" or "Great Chariot"), Pangu (Chinese: 盤古, the macranthropic metaphor of the cosmos), Xiwangmu (Chinese: 西王母 "Queen Mother of the West") and Dongwanggong (Chinese: 東王公 "King Duke of the East") who personify respectively the yin and the yang,[202] as well as the dimensional Three Patrons and the Five Deities; then there are the sky and weather gods, the scenery gods, the vegetal and animal gods, and gods of human virtues and crafts.[88] These are interpreted in different ways in Taoism and folk sects, the former conferring them long kataphatic names.[88] Below the great deities, there is the unquantifiable number of gods of nature, as every phenomena have or are gods.
The Three Patrons (Chinese: 三皇 Sānhuáng)—Fuxi, Nüwa and Shennong—are the "vertical" manifestation of the primordial God corresponding to the Three Realms (Chinese: 三界 Sānjiè), representing the yin and yang and the medium between them, that is the human being.[203]
The Five Deities (Chinese: 五帝 Wǔdì) or "Five Forms of the Highest Deity" (Chinese: 五方上帝 Wǔfāng Shàngdì)—the Yellow, Green or Blue, Black, Red and White Deities[200]—are the five "horizontal" manifestations of the primordial God and according with the Three Realms they have a celestial, a terrestrial and a chthonic form.[note 13] They correspond to the five phases of creation, the five constellations rotating around the celestial pole, the five sacred mountains and the five directions of space (the four cardinal directions and the centre), and the five Dragon Gods (Chinese: 龍神 Lóngshén) which represent their mounts, that is to say the chthonic forces they preside over.[205][206]
The Yellow God (Chinese: 黃神 Huángshén) or "Yellow God of the Northern Dipper" (Chinese: 黃神北斗 Huángshén Běidǒu[note 14]) is of peculiar importance, as he is a form of the universal God (Tian or Shangdi)[207][208] symbolising the axis mundi (Kunlun), or the intersection between the Three Patrons and the Five Deities, that is the center of the cosmos.[209] He is therefore described in the Shizi as the "Yellow Emperor with Four Faces" (Chinese: 黃帝四面 Huángdì Sìmiàn).[210] His human incarnation, the "Yellow Emperor (or Deity) of the Mysterious Origin" (Chinese: 軒轅黃帝 Xuānyuán Huángdì), is said to be the creator of the Huaxia civility, of marriage and morality, language and lineage, and patriarch of all the Chinese together with the Red Deity.[211] Xuanyuan was the fruit of virginal birth, as his mother Fubao conceived him as she was aroused, while walking in the country, by a lightning from the Big Dipper.[212]
Mother goddess worship
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The worship of mother goddesses for the cultivation of offspring is present all over China, but predominantly in northern provinces. There are nine main goddesses, and all of them tend to be considered as manifestations or attendant forces of a singular goddess identified variously as Bixia (Chinese: 碧霞 "Blue Dawn"), the daughter or female consort of the Green God of Mount Tai, or Houtu (Chinese: 后土 the "Queen of the Earth").[213] Bixia herself is identified by Taoists as the more ancient goddess Xiwangmu,[214] Goddesses are commonly entitled mǔ (Chinese: 母 "mother"), lǎomǔ (Chinese: 老母 "old mother"), shèngmǔ (Chinese: 聖母 "holy mother"), niángniáng (Chinese: 娘娘 "lady"), nǎinai (Chinese: 奶奶 "granny").
Altars of goddess worship are usually arranged with Bixia at the center and two goddesses at her sides, most frequently the Lady of Eyesight and the Lady of Offspring.[215] A different figure but with the same astral connections as Bixia is the Qixing Niangniang (Chinese: 七星娘娘 "Goddess of the Seven Stars"). There is also the cluster of the Holy Mothers of the Three Skies (Chinese: 三霄聖母 Sanxiao Shengmu; or "Ladies of the Three Skies", Chinese: 三霄娘娘 Sanxiao Niangniang), composed of Yunxiao Guniang, Qiongxiao Guniang and Bixiao Guniang.[216] In southeastern provinces the cult of Chen Jinggu (Chinese: 陳靖姑) is identified by some scholars as an emanation of the northern cult of Bixia.[217]
There are other local goddesses with motherly features, including the northern Canmu (Chinese: 蠶母 "Silkworm Mother") and Mazu (Chinese: 媽祖 "Ancestral Mother"), popular in provinces along the eastern coast and in Taiwan. The title of "Queen of Heaven" (Chinese: 天后 Tiānhòu) is most frequently attributed to Mazu and Doumu (the cosmic goddess).
Worship and modalities of religious practice
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Adam Yuet Chau identifies five styles or modalities of "doing" Chinese religion:[218]
- Discursive-scriptural: involving the composition, preaching, and recitation of texts (classics, Taoist scriptures and morality books);
- Personal cultivation mode, involving a long-term cultivation and transformation of oneself with the goal of becoming a xian Chinese: 仙 (immortal), zhenren Chinese: 真人 ("true person"), or shengren (wise), through the practice of different "technologies of the self" (qigong Chinese: 氣功, Taoist inner and outer alchemy, charitable acts for merit, memorisation and recitation of texts);
- Liturgical: involving elaborate ritual procedures conducted by specialists of rites (Taoist rites, Confucian rites, Nuo rites, fengshui Chinese: 風水);
- Immediate practical: aiming at quick efficacious (ling Chinese: 靈) results through simple ritual and magical techniques (divination, talismans, divine medicine, consulting media and shamans);
- Relational: emphasising the devotional relationship between men and deities and among men themselves (organising elaborate sacrifices, making vows, organising temple festivals, pilgrimages, processions, and religious communities) in "social comings and goings" (laiwang Chinese: 來往) and "interconnectedness" (guanxi Chinese: 關係).
Generally speaking, the Chinese believe that spiritual and material well-being ensues from the harmony of humanity and gods in their participation in the same cosmic power, and also believe that by taking the right path and practice anybody is able to reach the absolute reality.[219] Religious practice is therefore regarded as the bridge to link the human world to the spiritual source,[219] maintaining the harmony of the micro and macrocosmos, protecting the individual and the world from disruption.[125] In this sense, the Chinese view of human life is not deterministic, but one is a master of his own life and can choose to collaborate with the deities for a harmonious world.[125]Chinese culture being a holistic system, in which every aspect is a part of a whole, Chinese folk religious practice is often intermingled with political, educational and economic concerns.[220] A gathering or event may be encompassed with all of these aspects; in general, the commitment (belief) and the process or rite (practice) together form the internal and external dimensions of Chinese religious life.[220] In village communities, religious services are often organised and led by local people themselves.[51] Leaders are usually selected among male heads of families or lineages, or village heads.[51]
A simple form of individual practice is to show respect for the gods (jing shen Chinese: 敬神) through jingxiang (incense offering), and the exchange of vows (huan yuan Chinese: 還願).[125] Sacrifice can consist of incense, oil, and candles, as well as money.[221] Religious devotion may also express in the form of performance troupes (huahui), involving many types of professionals such as stilt walkers, lion dancers, musicians, martial arts masters, yangge dancers, and story-tellers.[221]
Deities can also be respected through moral deeds in their name (shanshi Chinese: 善事), and self-cultivation (xiuxing Chinese: 修行).[222] Some forms of folk religion develop clear prescriptions for believers, such as detailed lists of meritorious and sinful deeds in the form of "morality books" (shanshu Chinese: 善書) and ledgers of merit and demerit.[223] Involvement in the affairs of communal or intra-village temples are perceived by believers as ways for accumulating merit (gongde Chinese: 功德).[223] Virtue is believed to accumulate in one's heart, which is seen as energetic centre of the human body (zai jun xin zuo tian fu Chinese: 在君心作福田).[224] Practices of communication with the gods comprehend different forms of Chinese shamanism, such as wu shamanism and tongji mediumship, or fuji practice.
Sacrifices
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Classical Chinese has characters for different types of sacrifice, probably the oldest way to communicate with divine forces, today generally encompassed by the definition jìsì (祭祀).[219] However different in scale and quantity, all types of sacrifice would normally involve food, wine, meat and later incense.[225]
Sacrifices usually differ according to the kind of deity they are devoted to.[225] Traditionally, cosmic and nature gods are offered uncooked (or whole) food, while ancestors are offered cooked food.[225] Moreover, sacrifices for gods are made inside the temples that enshrine them, while sacrifices for ancestors are made outside temples.[225] Yearly sacrifices (ji) are made to Confucius, the Red and Yellow Emperors, and other cultural heroes and ancestors.[225]
Both in past history and at the present, all sacrifices are assigned with both religious and political purposes.[226] Some gods are considered carnivorous, for example the River God (Chinese: 河神 Héshén) and Dragon Gods, and offering to them requires animal sacrifice.[227]
Thanksgiving and redeeming
[edit]The aims of rituals and sacrifices may be of thanksgiving and redeeming, usually involving both.[226] Various sacrifices are intended to express gratitude toward the gods in the hope that spiritual blessing and protection will continue.[226] The jiào (醮), an elaborate Taoist sacrifice or "rite of universal salvation", is intended to be a cosmic community renewal, that is to say a reconciliation of a community around its spiritual centre.[228] The jiao ritual usually starts with zhai, "fasting and purification", that is meant as an atonement for evil-doing, then followed by sacrificial offerings.[228]
This rite, of great political importance, can be intended for the whole nation.[228] In fact, as early as the Song dynasty, emperors asked renowned Taoists to perform such rituals on their behalf or for the entire nation.[228] The modern Chinese republic has given approval for Taoists to conduct such rituals since the 1990s, with the aim of protecting the country and the nation.[228]
Rites of passage
[edit]A variety of practices are concerned with personal well-being and spiritual growth.[229] Rites of passage are intended to narrate the holy significance of each crucial change throughout a life course.[229] These changes, which are physical and social and at the same time spiritual, are marked by elaborate customs and religious rituals.[229]
In the holistic view about nature and the human body and life, as macro and microcosmos, the life process of a human being is equated with the rhythm of seasons and cosmic changes.[229] Hence, birth is likened to spring, youth to summer, maturity to autumn and old age to winter.[229] There are ritual passages for those who belong to a religious order of priests or monks, and there are the rituals of the stages in a life, the main four being birth, adulthood, marriage and death.[230]
Chinese folk religion sometimes incorporated Daoist elements about personal growth. A Tao realm inconceivable and incomprehensible by normal humans and even Confucius and Confucianists was sometimes called "the Heavens" and thought to exist by many ancient folk religion practitioners.[231] Higher, spiritual versions of Daoists such as Laozi were thought to exist in there when they were alive and absorb "the purest Yin and Yang",[231] as well as xian who were reborn into it after their human selves' spirits were sent there. These spiritual versions were thought to be abstract beings that can manifest in that world as mythical beings such as xian dragons who eat yin and yang energy and ride clouds and their qi.[231]
Places of worship
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Chinese language has a variety of words defining the temples of the Chinese religion. Some of these terms have a precise functional use, although with time some confusion has arisen and some of them have been used interchangeably in some contexts. Collective names defining "temples" or places of worship are Chinese: 寺廟 sìmiào and Chinese: 廟宇 miàoyǔ.[232]
However, Chinese: 寺 sì, which originally meant a type of residence for imperial officials, with the introduction of Buddhism in China became associated with Buddhist monasteries as many officials donated their residences to the monks.[232] Today sì and Chinese: 寺院 sìyuàn ("monastery") are used almost exclusively for Buddhist monasteries, with sporadic exceptions, and sì is a component character of names for Chinese mosques. Another term now mostly associated with Buddhism is Chinese: 庵 ān, "thatched hut", originally a form of dwelling of monks later extended to mean monasteries.[232]
Temples can be public, private (Chinese: 私廟 sìmiào) and household temples (Chinese: 家廟 jiāmiào). The jing Chinese: 境 is a broader "territory of a god", a geographic region or a village or city with its surroundings, marked by multiple temples or complexes of temples and delineated by the processions.[233]
Pertaining to Chinese religion the most common term is Chinese: 廟 miào graphically meaning a "shrine" or "sacred enclosure"; it is the general Chinese term that is translated with the general Western "temple", and is used for temples of any of the deities of polytheism. Other terms include Chinese: 殿 diàn which indicates the "house" of a god, enshrining one specific god, usually a chapel within a larger temple or sacred enclosure; and Chinese: 壇 tán which means "altar" and refers to any indoor or outdoor altars, majestic outdoor altars being those for the worship of Heaven and Earth and other gods of the environment.[232] Chinese: 宮 Gōng, originally referring to imperial palaces, became associated to temples of representations of the universal God or the highest gods and consorts, such as the Queen of Heaven.[232]
Another group of words is used for the temples of ancestral religion: Chinese: 祠 cí (either "temple" or "shrine", meaning a sacred enclosure) or Chinese: 宗祠 zōngcí ("ancestor shrine"). These terms are also used for temples dedicated to immortal beings.[232] Chinese: 祖廟 Zǔmiào ("original temple") instead refers to a temple which is believed to be the original temple of a deity, the most legitimate and powerful.[234]
Chinese: 堂 Táng, meaning "hall" or "church hall", originally referred to the central hall of secular buildings but it entered religious usage as a place of worship of the folk religious sects.[232] Christianity in China has borrowed this term from the sects.
Chinese: 觀 Guàn is the appropriate Chinese translation of the Western term "temple", as both refer to "contemplation" (of the divine, according to the astral patterns in the sky or the icon of a deity). Together with its extension Chinese: 道觀 dàoguàn ("to contemplate or observe the Dao"), it is used exclusively for Taoist temples and monasteries of the state Taoist Church.[232]
Generic terms include Chinese: 院 yuàn meaning "sanctuary", from the secular usage for a courtyard, college or hospital institution; Chinese: 岩 yán ("rock") and Chinese: 洞 dòng ("hole", "cave") referring to temples set up in caves or on cliffs. Other generic terms are Chinese: 府 fǔ ("house"), originally of imperial officials, which is a rarely used term; and Chinese: 亭 tíng ("pavilion") which refers to the areas of a temple where laypeople can stay.[232] There is also Chinese: 神祠 shéncí, "shrine of a god".
Ancestral shrines are sacred places in which lineages of related families, identified by shared surnames, worship their common progenitors. These temples are the "collective representation" of a group, and function as centers where religious, social and economic activities intersect.[235]
Chinese temples are traditionally built according to the styles and materials (wood and bricks) of Chinese architecture, and this continues to be the rule for most of the new temples. However, in the early 20th century and especially in the mainland religious revival of the early 21st century, there has been a proliferation of new styles in temple construction. These include the use of new materials (stones and concrete, stainless steel and glass) and the combination of Chinese traditional shapes with styles of the West or of transnational modernity. Examples can be found in the large ceremonial complexes of mainland China.
Temple networks and gatherings
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Chinese: 分香 Fēnxiāng, meaning an "incense division", is a term that defines both hierarchical networks of temples dedicated to a god, and the ritual process by which these networks form.[236] These temple networks are economic and social bodies, and in certain moments of history have even taken military functions.[236] They also represent routes of pilgrimage, with communities of devotees from the affiliated temples going up in the hierarchy to the senior temple (zumiao).[236]
When a new temple dedicated to the same god is founded, it enters the network through the ritual of division of incense. This consists in filling the incense burner of the new temple with ashes brought from the incense burner of an existing temple.[236] The new temple is therefore spiritually affiliated to the older temple where the ashes were taken, and directly below it in the hierarchy of temples.[236]
Chinese: 廟會 Miàohuì, literally "gatherings at the temple", are "collective rituals to greet the gods" (Chinese: 迎神賽會 yíngshén sàihuì) that are held at the temples on various occasions such as the Chinese New Year or the birthday or holiday of the god enshrined in the temple.[237] In North China they are also called Chinese: 賽會 sàihuì ("communal ritual gatherings") or Chinese: 香會 xiānghuì ("incense gatherings"), while a Chinese: 賽社 sàishè ("communal ritual body") is the association which organises such events and by extension it has become another name of the event itself.[238]
Activities include rituals, theatrical performances, processions of the gods' images throughout villages and cities, and offerings to the temples.[237] In north China temple gatherings are generally week-long and large events attracting tens of thousands of people, while in south China they tend to be smaller and village-based events.[237]
Demographics
[edit]Mainland China and Taiwan
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According to Yang and Hu (2012):
Chinese folk religion deserves serious research and better understanding in the social scientific study of religion. This is not only because of the sheer number of adherents—several times more adherents than Christians and Buddhists combined, but also because folk religion may have significant social and political functions in China's transition.[239]
According to their research, 55.5% of the adult population (15+) of China, or 578 million people in absolute numbers, believe and practise folk religions, including a 20% who practice ancestor religion or communal worship of deities, and the rest who practise what Yang and Hu define "individual" folk religions like devotion to specific gods such as Caishen. Members of folk religious sects are not taken into account.[240] Around the same year, Kenneth Dean estimates 680 million people involved in folk religion, or 51% of the total population.[note 16] At the same time, self-identified folk religion believers in Taiwan are 42.7% of the adult (20+) population, or 16 million people in absolute numbers, although devotion to ancestors and gods can be found even among other religions' believers or 88% of the population.[240] According to the 2005 census of Taiwan, Taoism is the statistical religion of 33% of the population.[242]
The Chinese Spiritual Life Survey conducted by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society of Purdue University, published in 2010, found that 754 million people (56.2%) practise ancestor religion, but only 216 million people (16%) "believe in the existence" of the ancestor.[note 17] The same survey says that 173 million (13%) practise Chinese folk religion in a Taoist framework.[243]
The China Family Panel Studies' survey of 2012,[244] published in 2014, based on the Chinese General Social Surveys which are held on robust samples of tens of thousands of people, found that only 12.6% of the population of China belongs to its five state-sanctioned religious groups, while among the rest of the population only 6.3% are atheists, and the remaining 81% (1 billion people) pray to or worship gods and ancestors in the manner of the traditional popular religion. The same survey has found that 2.2% (≈30 million) of the total population declares to be affiliated to one or another of the many folk religious sects. At the same time, reports of the Chinese government claim that the sects have about the same number of followers of the five state-sanctioned religions counted together (≈13% ≈180 million).[245]
Economy of temples and rituals
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Scholars have studied the economic dimension of Chinese folk religion,[246] whose rituals and temples interweave a form of grassroots socio-economic capital for the well-being of local communities, fostering the circulation of wealth and its investment in the "sacred capital" of temples, gods and ancestors.[247]
This religious economy already played a role in periods of imperial China, plays a significant role in modern Taiwan, and is seen as a driving force in the rapid economic development in parts of rural China, especially the southern and eastern coasts.[248]
According to Law (2005), in his study about the relationship between the revival of folk religion and the reconstruction of patriarchal civilisation:
Similar to the case in Taiwan, the practice of folk religion in rural southern China, particularly in the Pearl River Delta, has thrived as the economy has developed. ... In contrast to Weberian predictions, these phenomena suggest that drastic economic development in the Pearl River Delta may not lead to total disenchantment with beliefs concerning magic in the cosmos. On the contrary, the revival of folk religions in the Delta region is serving as a countervailing re-embedding force from the local cultural context, leading to the coexistence of the world of enchantments and the modern world.[249]
Mayfair Yang (2007) defines it as an "embedded capitalism", which preserves local identity and autonomy, and an "ethical capitalism" in which the drive for individual accumulation of money is tempered by religious and kinship ethics of generosity which foster the sharing and investment of wealth in the construction of civil society.[250]
Overseas Chinese
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Most of the overseas Chinese populations have maintained Chinese folk religions, often adapting to the new environment by developing new cults and incorporating elements of local traditions. In Southeast Asia, Chinese deities are subject to a "re-territorialisation" and maintain their relation to the ethnic associations (i.e. the Hainanese Association or the Fujianese Association, each of them has a patron deity and manages one or more temples of such a deity).[251]
The most important deity among Southeast Asian Chinese is Mazu, the Queen of Heaven and goddess of the sea. This is related to the fact that most of these Chinese populations are from southeastern provinces of China, where the goddess is very popular.[251] Some folk religious sects have spread successfully among Southeast Asian Chinese. They include especially Church of Virtue (Deism),[252][253][254] Zhenkongdao[255] and Yiguandao.[255]
See also
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- Chinese ancestral worship
- Chinese gods and immortals
- Chinese ritual mastery traditions
- Chinese religions of fasting (Xiantiandao)
- Chinese salvationist religions
- Chinese shamanism
- Chinese spiritual world concepts
- Confucianism—Confucian church
- Ghosts in Chinese culture
- Taoism (Quanzhen Taoism & Zhengyi Taoism)
- Buddhism—Chinese Buddhism
- Mazu worship & List of Mazu temples
- Chinese theology
By place
[edit]- Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia
- Northeast China folk religion
- Four Great Mountains (Taiwan)
- Temples of Taichung in Taiwan
- Tin Hau temples in Hong Kong
- Kwan Tai temples in Hong Kong
- Hip Tin temples in Hong Kong
- Confucian Religion in Indonesia
- List of City God Temples in China
- Baishatun Mazu Pilgrimage
- Qing Shan King Sacrificial Ceremony
- Chinese temples in Kolkata
- Taiwanese chicken-beheading rituals
Other similar national traditions
[edit]Other Sino-Tibetan ethnic religions
[edit]Other non-Sino-Tibetan ethnic religions present in China
[edit]Other articles
[edit]- Religion in China
- Wang Ye worship
- Nine Emperor Gods Festival
- Birthday of the Monkey God & Monkey King Festival
- Dajiao
- Kau chim & Jiaobei
- Ancestor worship
- Ancestral halls & Ancestral tablet
- Chinese lineage associations
- Hong Kong Government Lunar New Year kau chim tradition
- Religious goods store & Papier-mache offering shops in Hong Kong
- Bell Church & Bell Church (temple)
- Feng shui
- Chinese creation myths
- Chinese mythology
- Ethnic religion
- Tiān
Notes
[edit]- ^ The graphical etymology of Tian Chinese: 天 as "Great One" (Dà yī Chinese: 大一), and the phonetical etymology as diān Chinese: 顛, were first recorded by Xu Shen.[67] John C. Didier in In and Outside the Square (2009) for the Sino-Platonic Papers discusses different etymologies which trace the character Tian Chinese: 天 to the astral square or its ellipted forms, dīng Chinese: 口, representing the north celestial pole (pole star and Big Dipper revolving around it; historically a symbol of the absolute source of the universal reality in many cultures), which is the archaic (Shang) form of dīng Chinese: 丁 ("square").[68] Gao Hongjin and other scholars trace the modern word Tian to the Shang pronunciation of Chinese: 口 dīng (that is *teeŋ).[68] This was also the origin of Shang's Dì Chinese: 帝 ("Deity"), and later words meaning something "on high" or "top", including Chinese: 頂 dǐng.[68] The modern graph for Tian Chinese: 天 would derive from a Zhou version of the Shang archaic form of Dì Chinese: 帝 (from Shang oracle bone script[69] →
, which represents a fish entering the astral square); this Zhou version represents a being with a human-like body and a head-mind informed by the astral pole (→ 
).[68] Didier further links the Chinese astral square and Tian or Di characters to other well-known symbols of God or divinity as the northern pole in key ancient cultural centres: the Harappan and Vedic–Aryan spoked wheels,[70] crosses and hooked crosses (Chinese wàn Chinese: 卍/卐),[71] and the Mesopotamian Dingir 
.[72] Jixu Zhou (2005), also in the Sino-Platonic Papers, connects the etymology of Dì Chinese: 帝, Old Chinese *Tees, to the Indo-European Deus, God.[73] - ^ Jump up to: a b Tian, besides Taidi ("Great Deity") and Shangdi ("Highest Deity"), Yudi ("Jade Deity"), Shen Chinese: 神 ("God"), and Taiyi ("Great Oneness") as identified as the ladle of the Tiānmén Chinese: 天門 ("Gate of Heaven", the Big Dipper),[76] is defined by many other names attested in the Chinese literary, philosophical and religious tradition:[77]
- Tiānshén Chinese: 天神, the "God of Heaven", interpreted in the Shuowen jiezi (Chinese: 說文解字) as "the being that gives birth to all things";
- Shénhuáng Chinese: 神皇, "God the King", attested in Taihong ("The Origin of Vital Breath");
- Tiāndì Chinese: 天帝, the "Deity of Heaven" or "Emperor of Heaven".
- A popular Chinese term is Lǎotiānyé (Chinese: 老天爺), "Old Heavenly Father".
- Tiānzhǔ 天主—the "Lord of Heaven": In "The Document of Offering Sacrifices to Heaven and Earth on the Mountain Tai" (Fengshan shu) of the Records of the Grand Historian it is used as the title of the first God from whom all the other gods derive.[78]
- Tiānhuáng 天皇—the "August Personage of Heaven": In the "Poem of Fathoming Profundity" (Si'xuan fu), transcribed in "The History of the Later Han Dynasty" (Hou Han shu), Zhang Heng ornately writes: «I ask the superintendent of the Heavenly Gate to open the door and let me visit the King of Heaven at the Jade Palace»;[79]
- Tiānwáng 天王—the "King of Heaven" or "Monarch of Heaven".
- Tiāngōng 天公—the "Duke of Heaven" or "General of Heaven";[80]
- Tiānjūn 天君—the "Prince of Heaven" or "Lord of Heaven";[80]
- Tiānzūn 天尊—the "Heavenly Venerable", also a title for high gods in Taoist theologies;[79]
- Huáng Tiān Chinese: 皇天 —"Yellow Heaven" or "Shining Heaven", when it is venerated as the lord of creation;
- Hào Tiān Chinese: 昊天—"Vast Heaven", with regard to the vastness of its vital breath (qi);
- Mín Tiān Chinese: 昊天—"Compassionate Heaven" for it hears and corresponds with justice to the all-under-heaven;
- Shàng Tiān Chinese: 上天—"Highest Heaven" or "First Heaven", for it is the primordial being supervising all-under-heaven;
- Cāng Tiān Chinese: 蒼天—"Deep-Green Heaven", for it being unfathomably deep.
- ^ Jump up to: a b The characters yu 玉 (jade), huang 皇 (emperor, sovereign, august), wang 王 (king), as well as others pertaining to the same semantic field, have a common denominator in the concept of gong 工 (work, art, craft, artisan, bladed weapon, square and compass; gnomon, "interpreter") and wu Chinese: 巫 (shaman, medium)[85] in its archaic form
, with the same meaning of wan 卍 (swastika, ten thousand things, all being, universe).[86] The character dì Chinese: 帝 is rendered as "deity" or "emperor" and describes a divine principle that exerts a fatherly dominance over what it produces.[84] A king is a man or an entity who is able to merge himself with the axis mundi, the centre of the universe, bringing its order into reality. The ancient kings or emperors of the Chinese civilisation were shamans or priests, that is to say mediators of the divine rule.[87] The same Western terms "king" and "emperor" traditionally meant an entity capable to embody the divine rule: king etymologically means "gnomon", "generator", while emperor means "interpreter", "one who makes from within". - ^ В общепринятой китайской космологии мир не создается ex nihilo из внешнего бога, а развивается из первобытного хаоса ( Хундунь ). Один из способов обычно выражать это — использовать Тайцзи символ инь и ян . Внешний круг представляет собой первобытный хаос, из которого спонтанно возникает фундаментальная полярность инь (тьма) и ян (свет), которые затем создают «бесчисленное множество вещей» или «десять тысяч вещей» ( вань по-китайски : 卍 ) путем комбинации и рекомбинации. ". [94]
- ^ Храмы обычно строятся в соответствии с методами фэн-шуй , согласно которым для процветания любая вещь должна находиться в равновесии с окружающим миром. Названия святых мест часто поэтически описывают их расположение в мире.
- ^ По — можно сравнить с психикой или тимосом греческой философии и традиции, а хун с пневмой или «бессмертной душой». [105]
- ^ Jump up to: а б По словам исследователя династии Хань Дун Чжуншу: «Небо, Земля и человечество являются основой всего живого. Небо порождает все живое, Земля питает его, а человечество дополняет его». В Даодэцзин : «Дао велико. Небеса велики. Земля велика. И царь [человечество] тоже велик». Концепция Трех Сил/Агентов/Пределов далее обсуждается в конфуцианских комментариях к Ицзин . [112]
- ^ Белый Сульде (Белый дух) — один из двух духов Чингисхана (второй — Черный Сульде), представленный либо в виде его белого или желтого коня, либо в виде свирепого воина, едущего на этом коне. Внутри храма находится статуя Чингисхана (в центре) и четырех его людей с каждой стороны (всего девять, символическое число в монгольской культуре), есть алтарь, на котором приносятся подношения благочестивым людям. и три белых сульда, сделанных из белого конского волоса. От центрального сульде идут веревочки, на которых связаны голубые куски ткани и несколько белых. Стена исписана именами всех монгольских родов. Китайцы поклоняются Чингису как прародителю династии Юань .
- ^ На главной оси даосского Храма Удачи и Долголетия ( китайский : 福壽觀 Фусхоугуан ) расположены Храм Трех Покровителей ( китайский : 三皇殿 Sānhuángdiàn ) и Храм Трех Чистот ( китайский : 三清殿 Sānqīngdiàn , ортодоксальные боги даосской теологии). Боковые часовни включают Храм Бога Богатства ( китайский : 財神殿 Cáishéndiàn ), Храм Леди ( китайский : 娘娘殿 Niángniángdiàn ), Храм Восьми Бессмертных ( китайский : 八仙殿 Bāxiāndiàn ) и Храм (Бог) процветающей культуры ( китайский : 文昌殿 Wénchāngdiàn ). Храм Фушоу принадлежит даосской церкви и был построен в 2005 году на месте бывшего буддийского храма, Храма железной плитки, который стоял там до тех пор, пока не был разрушен и разрушен в 1950 году. Часть черепицы новых храмов изготовлена из руины бывшего храма, раскопанные в 2002 году.
- ^ Овермайер (2009, стр. 73) говорит, что с конца 19 по 20 век несколько профессиональных священников (т.е. лицензированных даосов) занимались местной религией в центральных и северных провинциях Китая, и обсуждает различные типы специалистов по народным ритуалам. в том числе: юэху китайцы : 樂戶 , чжули китайцы : 主禮 (с. 74), шэньцзя китайцы : 神家 («благочестивые семьи», потомственные специалисты по богам и их обрядам; стр. 77), затем (с. 179) мастера иньян или фэншуй (как «…народные даосы Чжэнъи библейской традиции Линбао, живущие как обычные крестьяне. Они зарабатывают себе на жизнь как группой выполнением общественных ритуалов, так и индивидуально [...] занятиями геомантией и календарные консультации по фэншуй и благоприятным дням»; цитирование: С. Джонс (2007), Ритуалы и музыка Северного Китая: Шаум-банды в Шаньси ). Он также описывает шаманов или представителей СМИ, известных под разными именами: мапи по-китайски : 馬裨 , упо по-китайски : 巫婆 , шэнь момо по-китайски : 神嬤嬤 или шэнь-хан по-китайски : 神漢 (стр. 87); синдао де китаец : 香道的 («практикующие путь благовоний»; стр. 85); деревня сянтоу китайский : 香頭 («головки благовоний»; стр. 86); матонг китайский : 馬童 (то же, что и южный цзитун ), либо ушен китайский : 巫神 (одержимый богами), либо шэнгуань китайский : 神官 (одержимый бессмертными; стр. 88–89); или «благочестивые мудрецы» ( шэньшэн китайский : 神聖 ; стр. 91). Далее (стр. 76) он обсуждает, например, сай китайские : 賽 , церемонии благодарения богам в Шаньси , уходящие корнями в эпоху Сун , лидеры которых очень часто соответствовали местным политическим властям. Эта модель продолжается и сегодня, когда бывшие секретари деревенской коммунистической партии избираются руководителями храмовых ассоциаций (стр. 83). Он заключает (стр. 92): «В целом, по крайней мере с начала двадцатого века, большинство местных ритуальных лидеров в Северном Китае были продуктами своих собственных или близлежащих сообществ. Они обладают особыми навыками в организации, ритуальном исполнении или взаимодействии с боги, но ни один из них не является штатным специалистом по ритуалам; все они «сохранили свою повседневную работу»! заслуживают того, чтобы их понимали именно так».
- ^ Изображение представляет собой хороший синтез основных добродетелей китайской религии и конфуцианской этики, то есть «двигаться и действовать в соответствии с гармонией Небес». Большая Медведица или Большая Колесница в китайской культуре (как и в других традиционных культурах) — символ оси мира , источника мироздания (Бога, Тянь ) в его способе проявления, порядке творения ( ли или Дао ).Символ, также называемый Вратами Небес ( китайский : 天門 Тяньмэнь ), широко используется в эзотерической и мистической литературе. Например, отрывок из Шанцинского даосизма текстов :
- «Жизнь и смерть, разделение и сближение — все это происходит от семи звезд. Таким образом, когда Большая Медведица сталкивается с кем-то, он умирает, а когда она движется, он живет. Вот почему семь звезд — это канцлер Небес, ямэнь, где врата открыты, чтобы дать жизнь». [191]
- ^ Термин «теарх» происходит от греческого теос («божество») с архе («принцип», «происхождение»), что означает «божественный принцип», «божественное происхождение». В китаеведении оно использовалось для обозначения воплощенных богов, которые, согласно китайской традиции, поддерживают мировой порядок и породили Китай. Это один из альтернативных переводов 帝 китайского dì вместе со словами «император» и «бог». [199]
- ^ Естественный порядок, исходящий от изначального Бога (Тянь-Шанди), записывающего и проектирующего миры как тан по-китайски : 壇 , «алтарь», китайское понятие, эквивалентное индийской мандале . Традиционная китайская религиозная космология показывает Хуанди, воплощение Шанди, как центр вселенной, а Уди (четыре бога направлений и времен года) — как его эманации. Диаграмма, показанная выше, основана на Huainanzi . [204]
- ^ Китайский по - : 斗 dǒu китайски представляет собой целое семантическое поле, означающее форму «ковша», как Большой Ковш ( китайский : 北斗 Běidǒu ), или «чашу», означающую «вихрение», а также имеет боевой подтекст. означает «борьба», «борьба», «битва».
- ^ Храмы Нефритового божества, олицетворения универсального Бога в популярной религии, обычно строятся на приподнятых искусственных платформах.
- ^ Ученый Кеннет Дин оценивает, что 680 миллионов человек участвуют в народных храмах и ритуалах. Цитата: «По словам Дина, «в сельском секторе… если взять приблизительную цифру в 1000 человек на деревню, живущую в 680 000 административных деревень, и предположить, что в среднем на деревню приходится два или три храма, то получим цифру более 680 миллионов сельских жителей так или иначе участвуют в более чем миллионе храмов и их ритуалах». [241]
- ^ Однако существует значительное расхождение между тем, что китайская и западная культуры подразумевают под понятиями «вера», «существование» и «практика». Китайскую народную религию часто считают религией «принадлежности», а не «веры» (см.: Fan & Chen (2013) , стр. 5).
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- ^ Jump up to: а б с Мао, Цзэдун; Рейнольдс Шрам, Стюарт; Ходс, Нэнси Джейн (1992). Путь Мао к власти: от Цзинганшаня к созданию Советов Цзянси, июль 1927 г. - декабрь 1930 г. Я Шарп. ISBN 978-1563244391 . п. 353-354
- ^ Веб-сайт правительства провинции Фуцзянь: Общая информация провинции Фуцзянь . Архивировано 7 января 2014 года на archive.today . Цитата: « В настоящее время основные религии, исповедуемые в провинции Фуцзянь, включают буддизм, даосизм, ислам, католицизм и протестантизм. ".
- ^ Фань Личжу. Культ матери тутового шелкопряда как ядро местной общинной религии в деревне Северного Китая: полевое исследование в Чживуин, Баодин, Хэбэй . The China Quarterly № 174 (июнь 2003 г.), 360.
- ^ Чау (2005a) , с. 50. Обсуждение народной религии в Шаньбэе : «Раньше в Шаанбэе было очень мало родовых залов, и ни один из них не был возрожден в эпоху реформ, хотя есть единичные случаи переписывания генеалогий родословных. У шанбэйцев никогда не было домашних родовых алтарей. (за исключением, пожалуй, нескольких дворянских семей, которые могли принести эту традицию с Юга), хотя в прошлом, как это было принято в Северном Китае, они хранили коллективные таблички предков ( шэньчжу ) или большие тканевые свитки с рисунками табличек предков, которые они посещаются могилы непосредственных предков. используется во время особых случаев, таких как церемония поклонения предкам в честь Лунного Нового года. Несколько раз в год в определенных случаях, таких как холодная еда ( ханши ) / ясная и яркая ( цинмин ), Месяц Девятый), но люди Шаанбэй не верят, что души их предков — это активные силы, способные защищать, приносить пользу или беспокоить живых».
- ^ Jump up to: а б Ву (2014) , с. 20. Цитата: «...южный Китай относится к провинциям Фуцзянь и Гуандун и в некоторых случаях расширяется за счет включения провинций Гуанси, Чжэцзян и Цзянси. Исторически эти области имели сильные родственные организации и территориальный культ по сравнению с остальными Эти области не только первыми возродили родословную и территориальный культ в эпоху реформ, но также имеют интенсивность и масштаб возрождения, с которыми не может сравниться другая часть Китая. далее называется южной моделью, основанной на модели «юг против севера». Северная модель относится к отсутствию землевладельческих кооперативных линий, существующих на юге». Примечание 16: Сравнение моделей юга и севера было целью исторических и антропологических исследований. Статья Коэна «Линейная организация в Северном Китае (1990)» предлагает лучшее изложение контраста между северной и южной моделями. Он называет модель Северного Китая «фиксированным генеалогическим типом родства по мужской линии». Под этим он имеет в виду, что «отцовские связи определяются на основе относительного старшинства линий происхождения, так что единство линии в целом основано на ритуальном фокусе на старшей линии происхождения, восходящей к предку-основателю, его старшему сын и преемственность старших сыновей». (там же: 510) Напротив, южно-китайская модель называется «ассоциативным способом отцовского родства». В этом режиме все линии спуска равны. «Доступ к корпоративным ресурсам, принадлежащим родословной или сегменту родословной, основан на равенстве родственных связей, утверждаемом в ассоциативном режиме». Однако различие между северной и южной моделями несколько условно. Некоторые практики южной модели встречаются на севере Китая. Между тем, так называемая северная модель характерна не только для Северного Китая. Набор характеристик северной модели (особое расположение кладбищ, могил, родовых свитков, родовых табличек и корпоративных групп, связанных с характерным годовым ритуальным циклом) не является системой. На самом деле организации преемственности представляют собой смесь южной и северной моделей». [ проверять ]
- ^ Jump up to: а б Overmyer, 2009. стр. 12–13: «Что касается физической и социальной структуры деревень на этом обширном плоском пространстве, то они состоят из тесных групп домов, построенных на возвышенности, окруженных своими полями, с многофамильным населением. семей, которые владеют и обрабатывают свою землю, хотя обычно не более двадцати му или около трех акров ... Семьи разных фамилий, живущие в одной небольшой общине, означали, что роды были недостаточно сильны, чтобы поддерживать родовые святыни и перекрестные деревни. организации, поэтому в лучшем случае они владели небольшими погребальными участками и принимали участие только во внутридеревенских мероприятиях. Старое имперское правительство поощряло деревни управлять собой, а также собирать и сдавать свои собственные налоги... за урегулирование споров отвечали руководители. работа с местными властями, организация защиты урожая и планирование коллективных церемоний. Все эти факторы способствовали укреплению местных божеств-защитников и их храмов как центров деревенской идентичности и деятельности. Этот социальный контекст определяет местную религию Северного Китая и не дает нам отвлекаться на смутные дискуссии о «популярных» и «элитных» отношениях с даосизмом и буддизмом».
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- ^ « Стройте храмы в честь трех великих китайских предков, укрепляйте национальный союз и вместе молитесь за мир между двумя берегами пролива и во всем мире ». Сайт Хун Юаня. Архивировано 20 июня 2017 года .
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- ^ Овермайер, 2009. с. 10: «Подобных паломничеств к региональным и национальным храмам в Китае было и есть много, и, конечно, такие паломничества не всегда можно четко отличить от фестивалей богов или святых местных общин, потому что в таких фестивалях могут участвовать участники из окрестных деревень и родных мест. общины, празднующие дни рождения или дни смерти своих богов-покровителей или святых, независимо от того, насколько они привлекательны для жителей других мест. Люди поклоняются и подают прошения как во время паломничества, так и на местных праздниках по схожим причинам. Главные различия между ними заключаются в центральной роли путешествия. в паломничествах размер территории, из которой привлекаются участники, и роль паломнических обществ в организации длительных поездок, которые могут быть связаны... паломничество в Китае также характеризуется обширным планированием и организацией как принимающими храмами, так и со стороны принимающих храмов. те, кто их посещает».
- ^ Овермайер, 2009. с. 3: «...существуют существенные различия между аспектами местной религии на юге и севере, одним из которых являются боги, которым поклоняются»; п. 33: «...почитание на севере древних божеств, о которых свидетельствуют доханьские источники, таких божеств, как Нюва, Фуси и Шэннун, легендарного основателя земледелия и фитотерапии. В некоторых случаях этим богам поклонялись в местах, которые считались Конечно, этим богам поклонялись и в других местах Китая, хотя, возможно, и не с таким же чувством оригинальности. географическое положение».
- ^ Овермайер, 2009. с. 15: «Популярные религиозные секты со своими собственными формами организации, лидерами, божествами, ритуалами, верованиями и текстами Священных Писаний действовали на протяжении периодов Мин и Цин, особенно в северном Китае. Отдельным лицам и семьям, которые присоединились к ним, была обещана особая божественная защита в этот период. жизнь и последующую жизнь лидерами, которые действовали как мастера ритуалов, так и миссионеры. Эти секты были более активны в некоторых общинах, чем в других, но в принципе были открыты для всех, кто откликался на мнения этих лидеров и верил в их эффективность и учение, так что некоторые из них. эти группы распространились на обширные территории страны... однако для нас важными являются свидетельства остаточного влияния сектантских верований и практик на несектантскую общинную религию, где сект больше не существует, особенно феминизация божеств путем добавления к ним. их имена - иероглифы му или Лаому , Мать или Почтенная Мать, как в Гуаньинь Лаому , Пусяньму , Дизанму и т. д., основанные на имени главного сектантского божества, Ушэн Лаому , Вечная Почтенная Мать. Пусянь и Дизан — бодхисаттвы, которых обычно считают «мужчинами», хотя в буддийской теории такие гендерные категории на самом деле не применимы. Эта практика добавления му к именам божеств, встречающаяся уже в сектантских писаниях периода Мин, называемых баоцзюань «драгоценными томами» с севера, не встречается в именах южных божеств».
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