Xuanyuan teaching

Church of Xuanyuan 軒轅教會 Xuānyuánjiàohuì
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 (軒轅道), Huangdiism (黄帝教)
Official website	http://huangdi-culture.org/

Xuanyuan Temple in Huangling, Yan'an, Shaanxi, at the ideal sacred centre of China.

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Xuanyuandao (軒轅道 "Way of Xuanyuan")^{[lower-alpha 1]}, also known as Xuanyuanism (軒轅教^{[lower-alpha 2]}) or Huangdiism (黄帝教^{[lower-alpha 3]}), is a Confucian folk religion of China which was founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1952.^[1] The founder was Wang Hansheng (王寒生) (1899–1989), a legislator.^[2] The Church of Xuanyuan aims to restore the "national religion" of archaic (pre-Han dynasty) China,^[3] with Huangdi as the universal God.

Theology and practices

The Church of Xuanyuan subsumes all the ways of worship to local deities under one national god, Xuanyuan Huangdi (軒轅黄帝 "Xuanyuan the Yellow Deity"^{[lower-alpha 4]}). According to the Shiji, Xuanyuan was the name of Huangdi,^[4] and he is traditionally considered the thearch (progenitor god) of the Han Chinese race.^[5]

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.^[6]

Diffusion

As of 2013 the Xuanyuandao has 200,000 adherents in Taiwan and is active in China, where it runs temples, schools, and members take part in the sacrifices celebrated at the Xuanyuan Temple, the largest temple dedicated to Huangdi in the world.^[7] Huangdi is also worshipped in Chinese folk religion by millions of people who do not necessarily belong to the Church of Xuanyuan.

See also

• Chinese salvationist religions
• Confucian church

Footnotes

References

Sources

• 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. ISBN 0824825640), pp. 48–83.
• Goossaert, Vincent, David Palmer. The Religious Question in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 0226304167
• Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky. Journal of Chinese Religions. Fall 1997, No. 25.