Xuanyuan teaching
| Church of Xuanyuan Hiên Viên giáo hộiXuānyuánjiàohuì | |
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| Type | Confucian church |
| Classification | Chinese salvationist religion |
| Scripture | Four Books and Five Classics |
| Founder | Wang Hansheng |
| Origin | 1952 Taiwan |
| Other name(s) | Way of Xuanyuan ( Hiên Viên nói ), Huangdiism ( Huỳnh Đế giáo ) |
| Official website | http://huangdi-culture.org/ |
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| Confucianism |
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Xuanyuandao( Hiên Viên nói "Way of Xuanyuan" )[a],also known asXuanyuanism( Hiên Viên giáo[b]) orHuangdiism( Huỳnh Đế giáo[c]), is aConfucianfolk religionofChinawhich was founded inTaipei,Taiwan,in 1952.[1]The founder was Wang Hansheng ( vương hàn sinh ) (1899–1989), alegislator.[2]The Church of Xuanyuan aims to restore the "national religion" of archaic (pre-Han dynasty) China,[1]withHuangdias the universal God.
Theology and practices[edit]
The Church of Xuanyuan subsumes all the ways of worship to local deities under one national god,Xuanyuan Huangdi( Hiên Viên Huỳnh Đế "Xuanyuan the Yellow Deity"[d]). According to theShiji,Xuanyuan was the name of Huangdi,[3]and he is traditionally considered the thearch (progenitorgod) of theHan Chineserace.[3]
Xuanyuanism is based on Confucian rationalism, and therefore rejects practices it considers superstitious that are found in other sects of Chinese folk religion, such as scripture writing through god mediumship.[4]
Diffusion[edit]
As of 2013 the Xuanyuandao has 200,000 adherents in Taiwan and is also active in China, where it runs temples, schools, and members take part in the sacrifices celebrated at theXuanyuan Temple,the largest temple dedicated to Huangdi in the world.[citation needed]Huangdi is also worshipped inChinese folk religionby millions of people who do not necessarily belong to the Church of Xuanyuan.
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^Hiên Viên nóiXuānyuándào,traditional characters:Hiên Viên nói. Xuanyuan is said to have been theYellow Emperor's personal name.
- ^Hiên Viên giáoXuānyuánjiào
- ^Huỳnh Đế giáoHuángdìjiào,traditional characters:Huỳnh Đế giáo; "faith in theYellow Deity"
- ^The coloryellow[huáng hoàng ] representsearth,thedragon,and thecentre of the universe[Shangdi] inChinese cosmologies,and is used as arevelative characterfor thehomophonehuángHoàng "august, generative".
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Christian Jochim, "Carrying Confucianism into the Modern World: The Taiwan Case".In Philip Clart, Charles Brewer Jones.Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society.University of Hawaii Press, 2003.ISBN0824825640), pp. 48–83.
- Goossaert, Vincent, David Palmer.The Religious Question in Modern China.University of Chicago Press, 2011.ISBN0226304167
- Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.Journal of Chinese Religions.Fall 1997, No. 25.
