Zhongyongdao

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Zhongyongdao (中庸道 "Way of the Golden Mean") is a Chinese folk religious sect that as of the 1980s was a proscribed religion in China as testified by the arrest of one of its leaders, Tang Tianxu, in Sichuan in 1981.[1]

History

Tang Tianxu was a leader of Zhongyingdao who was arrested in the Kaijiang County of Sichuan in 1981. It is not known what sentence he received.[1] According to an official report, in June of that year Tang gathered a "Thunder Patriarch Assembly", a religious gathering, binding together over ten thousands sticks of incense to create one great "heavenly incense".[1] On that occasion he instructed the people about eschatology, proclaiming the end of the jiazi and a new emperor to come.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Munro & Mickey (1994), pp. 261–262.

Sources

  • Munro, Robin; Mickey, Spiegel (1994). Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1564321053. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)