All About Religion (Puppets Pilgrimage)

Religion:

I know and I have seen many different religion beliefs and practices. China has always been a multi-religion country for a very very long time. Chinese religion is not an organized system of beliefs and practices. It also has no leadership, no headquarters, no founder, or no denominations. One religion is buddhism and a few more are taoism, confucianism, Islam religion, Christianity and the Mongolians had their own religious practices. Most of the religions have special songs and different styles of clothing. When I visited China last year, I noticed they still had the same clothing and songs as they did when the Yuan Dynasty occurred. Confucianism is a well known and popular religion in China. Buddhism is now one of the most important religions in China, even before Confucianism. There are three different kinds of Buddhism. They are Han Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Southern Buddhism. Each of them have a different number of monks and temples. Buddhism and Taoism were the main religions in the Yuan Dynasty. Outside of the Dynasty, there were about 300 Taoist temples all around China, scattered along with 3,000 Taoist that lived in them. There were two unique religions that belong to the Mongolian minority. They were called Shamanism and Totemism. Those are some crazy names for religions. Mongolian rulers encouraged the religious culture of the Yuan Dynasty. Buddhism was the Mongolian’s own religion. Also, the religion of Taoism was their own religion. So now I know that religion was very important for the Chinese and me!    

-Karliel/Karl