The Taigu school (太谷学派 ''Tàigǔ xuépài''), also Great Perfection (大成教 ''Dàchéng jiào'') or Yellow Cliff teaching (黄崖教 ''Huángyá jiào''), is a mystical folk religious sect of

Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or ...

spread especially in

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

and

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

. It was founded by Zhou Xingyuan, a man with

shamanic Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritu ...

skills entitled ''Taigu'' (太谷 "Great Valley") by followers. The purpose of the school is to help those who practice it to develop a clear and enlightened state of mind, in which man apprehends his true nature and recovers original simplicity.

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* * Religious Confucianism Confucian schools of thought Chinese folk religion in Asia History of Chinese philosophy Religion in Qing dynasty Three teachings {{Religious Confucianism

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