Religious life in China

The Chinese community did not build on science, it was based on a very powerful blend of religion, morality and philosophy. 

No people in history have ever been more superstitious than people, more skeptical, better pious, more rational, or more rational. 

There was no nation like the Chinese nation to be liberated from the control of the priests, and no people other than the Indians were as happy with their gods or as excited by them as the Chinese were. 

These contradictions can be explained only by attributing to China's philosophers unparalleled influence in history, and acknowledging China's poverty of a certain amount of unending wishful thinking. 

The religion of China's early inhabitants was not generally different from that of nature's worshipers, the most important of which was the fear of nature and the worship of spirits inherent in all its aspects, 

The veneration of terrible images of the earth and its great ability to produce and reproduce, the fear of heaven and its worship, and the glory of the vibrant sun and fertile rain which they considered an element of harmony between the earth's life and the hidden powers in heaven, 

They were worshiping wind, thunder, trees, mountains and snakes ; But their greatest holidays were held for the miracle of growth, and the young men and women in the days of spring were dancing and lying in the fields to set an example for their mother, the earth, in fertility and production. 

There was no big difference between the king and the priest in those days, and China's first kings, as historians put it, were later called political priests, who did nothing until they offered him prayers and the gods.

Religion without god.

The earth and the sky in this primitive religion were connected to each other, because they were two parts of a great cosmic unit, and their connection to each other was like the connection of the man and the woman, the connection of the master to the follower and the yang to the palin. 

And the system of heaven and the path of human beings were two very similar processes, because they were part of an indispensable global system called Do, the heavenly way ; 

They believe that good morals are the result of the cooperation between parts of this whole - like the laws that make the stars of the sky.

And the Great God was this same great heaven, this moral system, this sacred arrangement, which includes people and inanimate objects and defines the true relationships between children and their parents and wives and their husbands, between the followers and their masters, the masters, the emperor, the emperor and the god. 

This was a strange but noble thinking, which swings between the embodiment of the person when the people pray two tines, to the defrocted sky, when the philosophers talk about the combination of those forces, which are very far removed from the power of humans, individually or collectively, that control the heavens, the earth and the people. 

When the study of philosophy advanced, the idea of the “heavenly” became limited to the public, but its abstract, non-partisan idea became the doctrine of the educated classes and the official religion of the state.

From these beginnings came the two elements of China's national debt: The worship of ancestors scattered among all classes of the nation, the worship of heaven and the great men called by Confucianism. 

The Chinese were approaching each day a humble offering — usually something to eat — for the dead, and sending out the good-for-life prayers ; 

The sower or the naive worker believed that his parents or his ancestors lived after their death in an undetermined and unexplained kingdom, and that they could help or fuel him.

The educated Chinese approached his ancestors like this offering, but he did not regard the ceremony that accompanied him as a cult, but as a kind of remembrance. 

It was good for the spirits of the dead and for the Chinese people in general to magnify those dead, and to immortalize their memory, because in its immortalization of the old roads that they were walking, a barrier to the path of fads and a proclamation of peace throughout the empire.

There is no doubt that this religion has caused Chinese some trouble and harassment ; He filled the country with countless huge uninviolable graves, blocking the construction of railways and cutting off land for farming ; 

But, for the Chinese philosopher, these difficulties were weightless difficulties in the political stability and spiritual steadiness of the ancestral worship of Chinese civilization. 

This system of penetration into the Chinese nation has given it a spiritual unity of time, despite the many disunity and disconnection factors, the most important of which are the vast distances and the lack of transportation and communication. 

Thanks to this spiritual unity, generations have joined one another with a strong bond of tradition, so that individual life has an honorable share and a great danger in this timeless greatness in that domain over time.

Confucianism.

It is surprising that the religion embraced by scientists and pursued by the state has expanded these popular beliefs and narrowed their scope at the same time ; The veneration of the people as Confucius began to magnify one generation after the next, thanks to what the emperors held in second place after the sky. 

Each school honored him with a memorial plaque and each city he honored by building a temple in it. 

The chief officers would burn incense or offer sacrifices from time to time in honor of his spirit or in remembrance of him. 

This anniversary is the greatest motivation to do good among all the Chinese people's memories, which are not limited. 

It wasn't for the classy, cultured classes that many Chinese used to consider a substitute for God ; Perhaps not agnostics or atheists were among those who attended the prayers that were held in honor of him, but, if they were great and their ancestors, they were considered the community where they lived devout. 

The Confucian religion was duly recognized as the supreme force controlling the world, and each year the emperor brought the sacrificial offering a grand celebration on the altar of heaven for this deity. 

This official religion was devoid of any sign of immortality. The sky was not a place, but the will of God or the world order.

But the simple religion that applies almost to the requirements of reason never satisfied Chinese. 

Its principles do not give way to people's imaginations, do not respond to their hopes and wishes, and do not encourage the myths that bring joy to their daily lives. 

People in China, as they were in other countries of the world, were just as embellishing the ordinary realities of natural supernatural beings, and they felt that thousands of good and malicious lives were being carried around them in the air around them and in the land under their feet, and they were keen to counter the hostility of these hidden forces or to use propaganda and magic tricks. 

They hired albinos to reveal their future from the Ellie-Gng lines, or turtle shells or star movements, and hired wizards to direct their homes towards the wind and water and fortune-tellers to bring them down the sunlight and rain.

They would die when the children were born to them in the days of “bad luck,” and the burning girls were eager and jealous, sometimes killing themselves to bring good or bad to their parents.

Another belief.

The Chinese in general and in the south in particular tended to be mystical and disgusted with the rigid mindset of Confucianism and longed for a belief system in which other nations found lasting soles that saluted the dead. 

And for this reason, some popular scholars have adopted a doctrine, if he has drawn it into a mystery, and they have gradually forged it into a new religion. 

In the old professor's view, internationalism was a way of life, aimed at personal peace on Earth ; 

It seems that they did not master this method or take it as a form of worship, nor did they see it as a price to pay in this house to buy life in the afterlife. 

When it was the second century C.E., these doctrines were amended by men who claimed that they had reached them by means of a broken house that gave birth to his owner. 

The elixir was a popular drink among the Chinese, in which they carried an extravaganza that was said to have claimed the lives of a few Chinese emperors because of their addiction. 

Even stranger, a teacher of the clergy in Sichuan (around 148 AD) offered to cure people of all their diseases with a simple lace he gave them in exchange for handfuls of rice. 

Some people seemed to have recovered from their diseases because of these magical acts, and those who did not have the cure were told that their failure was the result of their weak faith. 

The people accepted the new religion in droves and solitude, and they praised it in skulls, and lavished money on its priests with great generosity, and blended it with a part of its popular, autumn-like stories, for which there is no end. 

The Naslu took Dizah as their god to worship him, and said that his mother carried a heavenly burden in him. 

The good believers thought that he was a child of full reason and old because he lived in his mother's womb for eighty years. 

Then they filled the land with devils and new gods, and they feared the first with fiery missiles exploding in the temple yard, and the explosion of those gathering around it, and awakening the second of its sleep with loud, huge bells to listen to the calls of its worshipers and their urgent demands.

Buddhism.

For a thousand years, the dogmas of millions of Chinese, many emperors believed in them, and their followers practiced many maladies, and struggled to take away from the Confucianism their sacred right to tax and to spend their goods. 

And then he did finish it, but what he had done was not the logic of Confucius and his followers, but he wiped out a new religion that was better able than she to inspire the street man and send quails into him. The new religion is Buddhism. 

The Buddhism that began to move from India to China in the first century A.D. was the unruly and depressed creed proclaimed by the Enlightened 500 years before entering China, and was not a doctrine of asceticism. 

It was a religion of faith in the joy and joy of gods who help people work, and a garden with flowers and gardens.

The image of the large vehicle, or the Mahiana, which according to the Kutschikh scholars, was based on the emotional needs of the naive Chinese population ; 

China was flooded with new gods not far from human beings, such as Amitabha the Governor of Paradise, and Kuan Yin the God of mercy and its God later, and added to the synagogue of China's gods a number of lusts and rabbits — eighteen of the first Buddha's — who are always ready to give people some of their virtues to help the tortured, bestizo.

When the Han dynasty collapsed into political chaos and its people thought that the same life had been destroyed by insecurity and wars, the torturer nation turned away from Buddhism. 

The Roman scientist also turned his face to Christianity. 

The medicine opened its arms to embrace the new religion and mixed it over time in the hearts of the Chinese completely ; 

The emperors began persecuting Buddhism and philosophers, complaining about superstitions, and politicians began to regret that a class of the good of the Chinese had slipped into the monasteries and became useless. 

But the government finally found that religion is stronger than the state ; so the emperors reconcile with the new gods ; 

The priests were allowed to collect zakat and build the structures, and I accepted both the staff and the scholars, even though Confucianism remained an aristocratic religion for her. 

The new religion seized many ancient shrines, and its monks and temples along with the international monks and structures of Tai-Shan, its sacred mountains. 

It urged people to speak to these structures many times to show their piety and piety, and it had a great effect on the flourishing of arts of photography, sculpture, architecture, literature, the advancement of printing, the advancement of many Chinese characteristics, 

Then the decay of Dhoyyeh, and corruption in the souls of the new religion Over the course of the day, many sinister lords and harmful popular superstitions have penetrated their beliefs, and their political power — once not so great — has been eliminated by Joshi. 

And now their structures have been forsaken, and their resources have dried up, and they have become, and there are no servants except their poor and destitute priests.

However, it has been implemented into Chinese self-determination, and still remains an important element of the complex informal elements of China's naive religion. Religions in China are not as specific as they are in Europe and America, and the country has never been pushed into religious wars. 

The adherents of every religion in that country are generally tolerant of the people of every other religion, and that tolerance is not limited to the affairs of the political state, but also views it as dogmas ; The average Chinese is a cult of nature, a Buddhist, a Buddhist, a Confucian at one time.

He's a humble philosopher, who knows that nothing in this world is certain, and he says to himself, perhaps the clergy are right, and there may be heaven as they say, and the best thing that a man does is to accept all these doctrines ; He rents many priests of different religions to recite prayers on his grave.

Christianity and Islam.

The Chinese don't care too much about gods as long as luck smiles at them ; He magnifies his ancestors, but he leaves the temples of medicine and Buddhism in the care of priests and a few women. 

History did not know a person more worldly than himself. 

The biggest thing that the Chinese cares about is to live well in this life. If he prays, he does not ask in his prayers for the bliss of Paradise, but rather for the goodness of himself in this earth world. 

If his God does not respond to his prayer, he may use his tongue as a curse and then throw it into the river. From Chinese proverbs: “No image-and-sculpture-worshiping, they know what material is made.” 

For this reason, the average Chinese never enthusiastically accepted Islam or Christianity ; These two religions give him a garden which Buddhism had promised him before ; But what he really wants is a religion that guarantees happiness in this earth. 

If it is said that China is Muslim, it is our answer that most of the 15 million Muslims in China are not actually Chinese, they are of foreign origin or foreign descendants. 

Christianity entered China by the hand of the warships, which was about 636 years. Emperor Nai Dzong displayed some kindness to her, protected her from persecution, 

And it was gratifying to the Chinese myth that in 781 they set up a memorial in which they recognized this enlightened tolerant and hoped that Christianity would soon spread throughout the country.

Since then, Jesuit missionaries with religious zeal and abundant knowledge have been supported by inexhaustible American funds. 

They and those who have worked hard to achieve the hopes of the soothsayers. What was the result?

 The number of Christians in China these days is only three million - that is, one percent of the population has converted to Christianity in a whole thousand years.

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