At that time China was being gradually invaded by European and American powers, and since 1860 Christian missionaries had had the right to build or rent premises, and they appropriated many temples. [391]:149 Chinese Zoroastrian temples were witnessed to be active in Hanyang, Hubei until those years. Reported in, sfnp error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFYang2007 (, sfnp error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFChau2005 (. 民族宗教 mínzú zōngjiào), or even "Chinese religion" (中華教 Zhōnghuájiào) and "Shenxianism" (神仙教 Shénxiānjiào), as single names for the local indigenous cults of China. [277] Individuals may realise their humanity and become one with Heaven through the contemplation of this order. The most famous amongst them was Matteo Ricci, an Italian mathematician who came to China in 1588 and lived in Beijing. Freedom of religion and belief. [270] Confucianism focuses on a thisworldly awareness of Tian (天 "Heaven"),[271] the search for a middle way in order to preserve social harmony and on respect through teaching and a set of ritual practices. Immer informiert sein: Der China Tours-Newsletter bietet Ihnen kompakt einmal im Monat alle Neuigkeiten rund um China! Reported in, Data from the Chinese Spiritual Life Survey (CSLS) 2010 for Chinese ancestorists, and from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2009 for Christians. Its article 36 states that:[95][96]. [305] Such interaction gave rise to uniquely Han Chinese Buddhist schools (汉传佛教 Hànchuán Fójiào). [385] During the subsequent Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), foreign religions were generally granted freedom,[385] but the following Ming dynasty (1368–1644) renewed discriminations against them. Among them, the most revered are the water god Dragon King (Zaj Laug), the Thunder God (Xob), the gods of life and death (Ntxwj Nyug and Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem), Lady Sun (Nkauj Hnub) and Lord Moon (Nraug Hli), and various deified human ancestors.[338]:60–62. [72], After the fall of the Han dynasty, a period of disunity defined as the "Six Dynasties" began. The first, "spirit", is in the sense of "human spirit" or "psyche". Religion in China (CFPS 2014)[1][2][note 1]. [297][299] Some Western scholars have described vernacular Taoist traditions as "cataphatic" (i.e. Zhuangzi was the best known of them, and it is significant that he lived in the south, where he was involved in local shamanic traditions. [301] Rather, they represent an intermediate level between the wu and the Taoists. Law enforcement and the judicial system remained largely under the control of the party. [158] 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. Initially, the new government did not suppress religious practice, but, like its dynastic ancestors, viewed popular religious movements, especially in the countryside, as possibly seditious. Bis heute werden ihr … Actualmente es la religión predominante en China y, a pesar de ello, su número de creyentes es difícil de calcular ya que las fuentes varían entre 880 millones y 390 millones; además, en las … [153], Folk religious movements of salvation have historically been more successful in the central plains and in the northeastern provinces than in southern China, and central-northern popular religion shares characteristics of some of the sects, such as the great importance given to mother goddess worship and shamanism,[154] as well as their scriptural transmission. [5]:127 Based on Gnostic teachings and able to adapt to different cultural contexts, the Manichaean religion spread rapidly both westward to the Roman Empire and eastward to China. While estimates of the number of Buddhists in China vary, the most recent surveys found an average 10–16% of the population of China claiming a Buddhist affiliation, with even higher percentages in urban agglomerations. [332] Bonpo ("believers of Bon") claim that the word bon means "truth" and "reality". Historical record and contemporary scholarly fieldwork testify certain central and northern provinces of China as hotbeds of folk religious sects and Confucian religious groups. Cultic Practices of the Bronze Age Chengdu Plain", "Decapitated Churches in China's Christian Heartland", "Counting Christians in China: A critical reading of, "Religion in China on the Eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics", "A Solo, a Duet, or an Ensemble? of positive theology) in character, while professional Taoism as "kenotic" and "apophatic" (i.e. [209] Gui may be the spirit or soul of an ancestor called back to live in the family's spirit tablet. Francis Ching-Wah Yip, in Miller, 2006. p. 186. An error occurred. The Buddhist community shew a greater balance of male and female believers. The second phase of Zoroastrianism in China was in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–960), and saw the development of an indigenous Chinese Zoroastrianism that lasted until modern times. [207] The shén 神, as explained in the Shuowen Jiezi, "are the spirits of Heaven. It may also be called "Manchu Shamanism" (满族萨满教 Mǎnzú sàmǎnjiào) by virtue of the word "shaman" being originally from Tungusic šamán ("man of knowledge"),[335]:235 later applied by Western scholars to similar religious practices in other cultures. Besides the waning Zhou ritual system, what may be defined as "wild" (野 yě) traditions, or traditions "outside of the official system", developed as attempts to access the will of Tian. [218], Understanding religion primarily as an ancestral tradition, the Chinese have a relationship with the divine that functions socially, politically as well as spiritually. They were not transcendent entities, since the universe was "by itself so", not created by a force outside of it but generated by internal rhythms and cosmic powers. The performance of rites (礼 lǐ) is the key characteristic of common Chinese religion, which scholars see as going back to Neolithic times. During the Japanese invasion of China between 1937 and 1945 many temples were used as barracks by soldiers and destroyed in warfare. During Japanese rule also many Japanese new religions, or independent Shinto sects, proselytised in Manchuria establishing hundreds of congregations. Confucians experience the sacred as existing in this world as part of everyday life, most importantly in family and social relations. [67], Between 184 and 205 CE, the Way of the Supreme Peace (太平道 Tàipíngdào) in the Central Plains, the earliest attested popular Taoist religious-military movement led by members of the Zhang lineage—prominently Zhang Jue and Zhang Liu, among leaders from other families—, organised the so-called Yellow Turban Rebellion against the Han dynasty. An additional 0.85% of the population responded that they were "Taoists". [86]:3[87], After the Xinhai Revolution, with increasing urbanisation and Western influence, the issue for the new intellectual class was no longer the worship of heterodox gods as it was the case in imperial times, but the delegitimisation of religion itself, and especially folk religion, as an obstacle to modernisation. [43], The Qin (221–206 BCE), and especially Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), inherited the philosophical developments of the Warring States period molding them into a universalistic philosophy, cosmology and religion. After the 12th century, Theravada Buddhist influence into the region began to come from Thailand. Taoism has had profound influence on Chinese culture over the course of the centuries, and Taoists (Chinese: 道士; pinyin: dàoshi, "masters of the Tao") usually take care to mark the distinction between their ritual tradition and those of vernacular orders which are not recognised as Taoist. Scholar Kenneth Dean estimates 680 million people involved in folk temples and rituals. Der Islam, der weltweit rund 1,6 Milliarden Anhä… The Qing made their laws more severely patriarchal than any previous dynasty, and Buddhism and Taoism were downgraded. A glaring example is the god Hanuman, who gave rise to the Chinese god Hóuwáng (猴王 "Monkey King"), known as Sun Wukong in the Journey to the West. This search for a precise name is meant to solve terminological confusion, since "folk religion" (民间宗教 mínjiān zōngjiào) or "folk belief" (民间信仰 mínjiān xìnyǎng) have historically defined the sectarian movements of salvation and not the local cults devoted to deities and progenitors, and it is also meant to identify a "national Chinese religion" similarly to Hinduism in India and Shinto in Japan. The religion never recovered from the persecutions, but it persisted as a distinct underground movement at least until the 14th century, particularly among southeastern Chinese, resurfacing from time to time supporting peasant rebellions. Die Kansai Region umfasst Kyoto, das beliebteste Reiseziel in Japan. [132] A 2017 study of the Christian communities of Wuhan found the same socio-economic characteristics, with the addition that Christians were more likely to suffer from physical and mental illness than the general population. [81][91], The People's Republic of China, proclaimed in 1949 under the leadership of Mao Zedong, established a policy of state atheism. Because many Han Chinese do not consider their spiritual beliefs and practices to be a "religion" and do not feel that they must practice any one of them exclusively, it is difficult to gather clear and reliable statistics. The aobaoes for worship of ancestral gods may be private shrines of an extended family or kin (people sharing the same surname), otherwise they are common to villages (dedicated to the god of a village), banners or leagues. A characteristic of the territory governed by Lu was its significant non-Chinese population. [303] However, shamanic traditions continued uninterrupted within the folk religion and found precise and functional forms within Taoism. [253], Many redemptive religions of the 20th and 21st century aspire to embody and reform Chinese tradition in the face of Western modernism and materialism. [330] Since the late 10th century, the religion then designated as "Bon" started to organise itself adopting the style of Tibetan Buddhism, including a monastic structure and a Bon Canon (Kangyur), which made it a codified religion. Zoroastrianism (琐罗亚斯德教 Suǒluōyàsīdéjiào or 祆教 Xiānjiào, "Heaven worship teaching"; also named 波斯教 Bōsījiào, "Persian teaching"; also 拜火教 Bàihuǒjiào, "fire-worshippers' transmission"; also 白頭教 Báitóujiào, "old age teaching")[390][391]:149 was first introduced in northern China in the 4th century, or even earlier, by the Sogdians, and it developed through three stages. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. The historian Arthur Waldron explains that "communism was, in effect, a religion for its early Chinese converts: more than a sociological analysis, it was a revelation and a prophecy that engaged their entire beings and was expounded in sacred texts, many imported from Moscow and often printed in English". [312] Today, this school of Buddhism is popular among the Dai people, and also the Palaung, Blang, Achang, and Jingpo ethnic groups. Yao Taoism is therefore a communal religion, not identifying just a class of priests but the entire body of the society; this contrasts with Chinese Taoism, which mostly developed as a collection of sacerdotal orders. [381]:135, Hindu texts were translated into Chinese, including a large number of Indian Tantric texts and the Vedas, which are known in Chinese as the Minglun or Zhilun, or through phonetic transliteration as the Weituo, Feituo or Pituo. [328] Since then, large temples and ceremonial complexes for Bimoist practices have been built. Als eine der wichtigsten Glaubensrichtungen ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass Einheimische zu Hause zu einer Buddha-Statue beten, die Touristen allerdings beispielsweise beim shoppen und flanieren solche Statuen zur Dekoration oder als Andenken kaufen. In unserem Nachrichtenticker können Sie live die neuesten Eilmeldungen auf Deutsch von Portalen, Zeitungen, Magazinen und Blogs lesen sowie nach älteren Meldungen suchen. [222], The cults of gods and ancestors that in recent (originally Western) literature have been classified as "Chinese popular religion", traditionally neither have a common name nor are considered zōngjiào ("doctrines"). Before the An Lushan Rebellion (756–763), Sogdians and Chinese lived as segregated ethnic groups; however, after the rebellion intermarriage became common and the Sogdians were gradually assimilated by the Chinese.[391]:150. Instead, "Chinese religion" is a term describing the complex interaction of different religious and philosophical traditions that have been influential in China. Concerning the age of believers, folk religious people and Catholics tended to be younger than the average, while Protestant and Taoist communities were composed by older people. [177], While Confucian theology emphasises the need to realise the starry order of the Heaven in human society, Taoist theology emphasises the Tao 道 ("Way"), which in one word denotes both the source and its spontaneous arising in nature. Ren is translated as "humaneness", or the essence proper of a human being, which is characterised by compassionate mind; it is the virtue endowed by Heaven and at the same time what allows man to achieve oneness with Heaven—in the Datong shu it is defined as "to form one body with all things" and "when the self and others are not separated ... compassion is aroused". The former festival is to worship the God of Heaven, while the latter is dedicated to the god of mountains. While many think of China as a homogenous culture, it may surprise you to learn that the religious scene in China is quite diverse. [368]:29–31 Yanbian Koreans' Christianity has a patriarchal character; Korean churches are usually led by men, in contrast to Chinese churches that most often have female leadership. In its interior, the temple enshrines a statue of Genghis Khan (at the center) and four of his men on each side (the total making nine, a symbolic number in Mongolian culture), there is an altar where offerings to the godly men are made, and three white suldes made with white horse hair. In the 1920s, the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia came under the control of Muslim warlords known as the Ma clique, who served as generals in the National Revolutionary Army. This secular understanding of Confucianism inspired both the Enlightenment in Europe in the 18th century, and Chinese intellectuals of the 20th century. Worshippers generally offer prayers through a jingxiang rite, with offerings of food, light incense and candles, and burning joss paper. Chr., entstand mit dem Konfuzianismus eine der drei die Kultur Chinas prägenden Lehren. Since 1978, the Constitution of the People's Republic of China guarantees "freedom of religion". [86]:9 Not only were traditions that had been interrupted for decades resumed, but ceremonies forgotten for centuries were reinvented. [223] Since the 2000s, Chinese scholars have proposed names to identify it more clearly, including "Chinese native religion" or "Chinese indigenous religion" (民俗宗教 mínsú zōngjiào), "Chinese ethnic religion" (民族宗教 mínzú zōngjiào), or simply "Chinese religion" (中華教 Zhōnghuájiào), "Shenism" (神教 Shénjiào) and "Shenxianism" (神仙教 Shénxiānjiào, "religion of deities and immortals"). [352], Christianity (基督教 Jīdūjiào, "religion of Christ") in China comprises Roman Catholicism (天主教 Tiānzhǔjiào, "religion of the Lord of Heaven"), Protestantism (基督教新教 Jīdūjiào xīnjiào, "New-Christianity"), and a small number of Orthodox Christians (正教 Zhèngjiào). [208] Shen and ancestors (祖 zǔ) are agents who generate phenomena which reveal or reproduce the order of Heaven. Prior to the formation of Chinese civilisation and the spread of world religions in the region known today as East Asia (which includes the territorial boundaries of modern-day China), local tribes shared animistic, shamanic and totemic worldviews. The Big Dipper or Great Chariot in Chinese culture (as in other traditional cultures) is a symbol of the, The White Sulde (White Spirit) is one of the two spirits of Genghis Khan (the other being the Black Sulde), represented either as his white or yellow horse or as a fierce warrior riding this horse. [160], The Han Chinese schools of Buddhism are mostly practised in the eastern part of the country. [119], Besides the surveys based on fieldwork, estimates using projections have been published by the Pew Research Center as part of its study of the Global Religious Landscape in 2010. The Tibetan tradition has also been gaining a growing influence among the Han Chinese. Chinese vernacular ritual masters, also referred to as practitioners of Faism (法教 Fǎjiào, "rites/laws' traditions"),[298] also named Folk Taoism (民间道教 Mínjiàn Dàojiào), or "Red Taoism" (in southeast China and Taiwan), are orders of priests that operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside any institution of official Taoism. These ancestors are the roots of current and future beings. This study estimated 21.9% of the population of China believed in folk religions, 18.2% were Buddhists, 5.1% were Christians, 1.8% were Muslims, 0.8% believed in other religions, while unaffiliated people constituted 52.2% of the population. Quora ist eine Plattform, auf der man Fragen stellen und sich mit anderen Menschen verbinden kann, die ihre ganz eigenen Erfahrungen und Einblicke in Form von hochqualitativen Antworten beisteuern. [345] Yao folk religion was described by a Chinese scholar of the half of the 20th century as an example of deep "Taoisation" (道教化 Dàojiàohuà). Rituals may be performed by government officials, family elders, popular ritual masters and Taoists, the latter cultivating local gods to centre the forces of the universe upon a particular locality. In earlier China, Taoists were thought of as hermits or ascetics who did not participate in political life. Although the two types of priests, daoshi and fashi, have the same roles in Chinese society—in that they may marry and they perform rituals for communities' temples or private homes—Zhengyi daoshi emphasise their Taoist tradition, distinguished from the vernacular tradition of the fashi. In each city, the respective City God is embodied by one or more historical personages, native of the city itself, who distinguished themselves by extraordinary attainments. [294], While the Chinese Taoist Association started as a Quanzhen institution, and remains based at the White Cloud Temple of Beijing, that also functions as the headquarters of the Quanzhen sects, from the 1990s onwards it started to open registration to the sanju daoshi of the Zhengyi branch, who are more numerous than the Quanzhen monks. [241] It is the force establishing responsive communication between yin and yang, and is the power of gods, masters of building and healing, rites and sages. According to the Chinese General Social Survey of 2012,[166] about 2.2% of the total population of China (around 30 million people) claims membership in the folk religious sects, which have likely maintained their historical dominance in central-northern and northeastern China.}} [328] The founding of the centre received substantial support from local authorities, especially those whose families were directly affiliated with one of the many bimo hereditary lineages. [319] Soka Gakkai members in China are organised in the form of the house church, as they "meet quietly in small groups in the homes of other members", with little interference from the government. https://www.chinarundreisen.com/china-info/religion-in-china.htm [338]:60 After his death, Siv Yis ascended to heaven, but he left behind his ritual tools that became the equipment of the shaman class. [394] As such, China has the most atheists in the world. "Nihao and welcome to China!" It is ultimately ineffable: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" says the first verse of the Tao Te Ching. [7] In the early 20th century Christian communities grew, but after 1949, foreign missionaries were expelled, and churches brought under government-controlled institutions. [391]:149, The first phase of Zoroastrianism in China started in the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Northern and Southern dynasties' period (220–589), when Sogdian Zoroastrians advanced into China. [387] In 1120, a rebellion led by Fang La was believed to have been caused by Manichaeans, and widespread crackdown of unauthorised religious assemblies took place. Klicke hier für eine Anleitung die dir zeigt, wie du JavaScript in deinem Browser aktivierst. As more people in China practice religion, the government continues to toughen oversight, increase religious persecution, and attempt to co-opt state-sanctioned religious organizations. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, religion came under the control of the new government, and the Buddhist Association of China was founded in 1953. The admiral Zheng He led seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean. Data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2012. In other words, ancestors are regarded as the equivalent of Heaven within human society,[184] and are therefore the means connecting back to Heaven as the "utmost ancestral father" (曾祖父 zēngzǔfù). Lingbao incorporated from Buddhism the ideas of "universal salvation" and ranked "heavens", and focused on communal rituals. [219] In other words, to the Chinese, the supreme principle is manifested and embodied by the chief gods of each phenomenon and of each human kin, making the worship of the highest God possible even in each ancestral temple. At the end of the Ming dynasty in the 16th century, Jesuits arrived in Beijing via Guangzhou. Hinduism (印度教 Yìndùjiào) entered China around the same time as Buddhism, generally imported by Indian merchants, from different routes. The shared sense of Yao identity is further based on tracing back Yao origins to a mythical ancestor, Panhu.[346]:48–49. Indeed, from the elites' point of view, the movement was connected to a series of abnormal cosmic phenomena seen as characteristic of an excess of 阴 yīn (femininity, sinister, reabsorption of the order of nature).
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