The Chinese religions of fasting () are a subgroup of the

Chinese salvationist religions Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinese religious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society.; ''passim'' They are distinguished by egalitarianism, a f ...

. Their name refers to the strict

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism m ...

fasting Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see " Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after ...

diet that believers follow. This subgroup originated as the ''Lǎoguān zhāijiào'' (老官齋教 "Venerable Officials' teaching of fasting") sect that departed from the eastern "Great Vehicle" proliferation of

Luoism Luodao (罗道 "Way of Luo") or Luoism (罗教), originally Wuweiism (无为教), refers to a Chinese folk religious tradition, a wide range of sect organisations flourishing over the last five hundred years, which trace their origins back to the ...

in the 16th century and adopted features of the

White Lotus The White Lotus () is a syncretic religious and political movement which forecasts the imminent advent of the "King of Light" (), i.e., the future Buddha Maitreya. As White Lotus sects developed, they appealed to many Han Chinese who found sola ...

tradition. The Chinese religions of fasting are the following three: * the Longhua sect (龍華教 "Dragon Flower"); * the Jintong sect (金幢教 "Golden Flag"); and * the

Xiantiandao The Xiantiandao (, or "Way of the Primordial"; Vietnamese: ', Japanese: '), also simply Tiandao (; Vietnamese: ', Japanese: ') is one of the most productive currents of Chinese folk religious sects such as the White Lotus Sect, characterised by ...

(先天道 "Way of Former Heaven") tradition. In the 1890s, a ''zhaijiao'' group assumed the functions of government in

Gutian County (; Foochow Romanized: ''Kŭ-chèng Gâing'') is a county lying in the northeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Ningde City and is located in the southwest part of the municipality. It is also ...

, leading to the

Kucheng Massacre The Kucheng massacre (; Pinyin: ''Gǔtián Jiào'àn''; Foochow Romanized: ''Kŭ-chèng Gáu-áng'') was a massacre of Western Christians that took place at Gutian (at that time known in the west as ''Kucheng'') Fujian, China on August 1, 1895. At ...

.Kimihiko Sato.
The Ku-t'ien Anti-missionary Incident (1895) : Vegetarian Sect, the shadow of Sino-Japanese War, and the conversion of the missionary diplomacy of the UK and U.S.

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* * Philip Clart. University of British Columbia.
The Phoenix and the Mother: The Interaction of Spirit Writing Cults and Popular Sects in Taiwan
'. On: ''Journal of Chinese Religions'', n. 25, Fall 1997. * Xisha Ma, Huiying Meng. ''Popular Religion and Shamanism''. Brill, 2011. Vegetarianism and religion Chinese salvationist religions Taiwanese folk religion {{Reli-org-stub

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