The Chinese religions of fasting () are a subgroup of the
Chinese salvationist religions
Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinese religious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society.; ''passim'' They are distinguished by egalitarianism, a f ...
. Their name refers to the strict
vegetarian
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the Eating, consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects as food, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slau ...
fasting
Fasting is the act of refraining from eating, and sometimes drinking. However, from a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (before "breakfast"), or to the metabolic sta ...
diet that believers follow. This subgroup originated as the ''Lǎoguān zhāijiào'' (老官齋教 "Venerable Officials' teaching of fasting") sect that departed from the eastern "Great Vehicle" proliferation of
Luoism
Luo Teaching or Luodao () or Luoism (), originally Wuweiism (), refers to a Chinese folk religion, Chinese folk religious tradition, a wide range of sect organisations flourishing over the last five hundred years, which trace their origins back t ...
in the 16th century and adopted features of the
White Lotus tradition.
The Chinese religions of fasting are the following three:
* the Longhua sect (龍華教 "Dragon Flower");
* the Jintong sect (金幢教 "Golden Flag"); and
* the
Xiantiandao
The Xiantiandao (, or "Way of the Primordial"; Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ', Japanese language, Japanese: ') or known as Blue/Green Lotus sect (), also simply Tiandao (; Vietnamese: ', Japanese: ') is one of the most productive currents of C ...
(先天道 "Way of Former Heaven") tradition.
In the 1890s, a ''zhaijiao'' group assumed the functions of government in
Gutian County
(; Foochow Romanized: ''Kŭ-chèng Gâing'') is a county lying in the northeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Ningde City and is located in the southwest part of the municipality. It is als ...
, leading to the
Kucheng Massacre.
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The Ku-t'ien Anti-missionary Incident (1895) : Vegetarian Sect, the shadow of Sino-Japanese War, and the conversion of the missionary diplomacy of the UK and U.S.
See also
*
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration of ''Shen (Chinese folk religion), shen'' ('spirits') and Chinese ancestor worship, ances ...
*
Chinese salvationist religions
Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinese religious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society.; ''passim'' They are distinguished by egalitarianism, a f ...
*
Luoism
Luo Teaching or Luodao () or Luoism (), originally Wuweiism (), refers to a Chinese folk religion, Chinese folk religious tradition, a wide range of sect organisations flourishing over the last five hundred years, which trace their origins back t ...
*
White Lotus
References
Sources
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* Philip Clart. University of British Columbia.
The Phoenix and the Mother: The Interaction of Spirit Writing Cults and Popular Sects in Taiwan'. On: ''Journal of Chinese Religions'', n. 25, Fall 1997.
* Xisha Ma, Huiying Meng. ''Popular Religion and Shamanism''. Brill, 2011.
Vegetarianism and religion
Chinese salvationist religions
Taiwanese folk religion
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