Chinese traditional religion, Chinese traditional religion - Demographics, Chinese traditional religion - Western views, Chinese mythology, religion in China, Chinese folk religion
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Chinese traditional religion is a loosely-connected system of practices and beliefs that has been practiced by large segments of the Han Chinese population of China from the early period of Chinese continuing to the present. With the influx of Western cultural influences for several centuries and the complex developments and modernization of the 20th century, the prevalence of Chinese traditional beliefs has declined, but still remain strong, many or most gradually transforming into elements of culture and social b ...
As the French Wikipedia observes,
This absence of a proper name, associated with the absence of any canonical literature, have for a long time caused it to be viewed by Westerners in the same way that the cult of the saints [veneration of saints] is viewed
that is, as a popularized version of an "authentic" religion.
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