Han Chinese

Buddhism, arriving over the Silk Road, became one of China's three teachings.

Chinese folk religion is the majority practice of Han communities, woven through the three teachings.

Confucianism orders family, ritual and state; whether it is religion or philosophy is itself an old argument.

Confucius made the family cult a school of virtue; his teaching orders Chinese social and ritual life to this day.

Diyu, the underworld of courts and judges, mirrors the imperial bureaucracy in the world of the dead.

Huangquan, the Yellow Springs, is the oldest Chinese name for the world of the dead.

Laozi, traditional author of the Tao Te Ching, stands at the head of the Taoist tradition.

The long, the Chinese dragon, is a benevolent bringer of rain and emblem of imperial authority.

Nuwa mending the broken sky is among the oldest recorded Chinese myths.

Pangu's separation of heaven and earth is the best known Chinese cosmogony.

Sun Wukong's rebellion against heaven, from Journey to the West, carries folk cosmology in narrative form.

Taoism is China's own organized religion of priesthood, liturgy and inner cultivation.

This source names Han Chinese directly: "dynastic transition, a large wave of Han Chinese settlers from Fujian province began arriving in Taiwan in the 1660s, bringing with them the traditional religious practice of their homeland, Taoism..."

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The migration of the northern courts and gentry to the Yangtze in the fourth century carried Buddhism into an educated southern milieu.

The river valley is the heartland of early Chinese civilisation and the setting of its founding political story.

Zhuangzi's parables gave Taoism its philosophical wit and depth.

The People's Republic of China holds the great majority of Han Chinese today.

China is the Han homeland, from the Yellow River plain outward.

Classical Chinese carried the canon of the three teachings for two millennia.

Caishen, the god of wealth, is welcomed into homes and businesses each New Year.

Chang'e is honored at the Mid Autumn Festival, when Han Chinese families gather to admire the full moon and eat mooncakes in her memory.

The City God, Chenghuang, is the tutelary deity and spiritual magistrate of a walled city or town in Han Chinese popular religion.

Erlang Shen is worshipped across Chinese mythology as a powerful and righteous god of exorcism and protection, quick to act against demons and disorder.

Guan Yu, the deified general, embodies loyalty and righteousness and is honored in temples, shops and police stations alike.

Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, is honored as a legendary sovereign and ancestor of the Chinese people, counted among the mythical founders of Han Chinese civilization.

The Jade Emperor presides over the celestial bureaucracy of Chinese folk religion.

Lei Gong, Duke of Thunder, works in the celestial bureau of weather within Han Chinese popular religion, striking down the secretly wicked with his thunderbolts.

Mazu, protector of sailors, is among the most worshipped deities of coastal China, Taiwan and the diaspora.

Emei Shan in Sichuan is Samantabhadra's mountain, and his ten great vows from the Avatamsaka Sutra are chanted daily in Han Chinese and East Asian monasteries.

Shennong, the Divine Farmer, is a founding culture hero of Han Chinese tradition, credited with the origin of agriculture and herbal medicine.

Tai Sui and the sixty Tai Sui generals of the sexagenary cycle are propitiated in Han Chinese folk religion to avert misfortune.

Taibai Jinxing, the Great White Star, is the deified spirit of Venus in Han Chinese folk belief, the Metal star of the west and the autumn.

Tudigong is the humblest and most numerous deity of Chinese folk religion, his small shrines standing at the edges of villages and fields across Han Chinese communities.

Xihe is a Chinese solar goddess and mother of the ten suns, honored as the charioteer and timekeeper who drives the sun across the sky each day.

Zhong Kui, the vanquisher of ghosts and demons, is honored in Han Chinese households with his image pasted on doors above all at the new year.

Zhuanxu is one of the legendary Five Emperors of Han Chinese tradition, credited with setting the calendar and separating heaven from earth.

Zhurong is the Chinese god of fire and of the south, a bringer of fire and light to humankind honored in Han Chinese tradition.