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Tiandihui. The Tiandihui, the Heaven and Earth Society, also called Hongmen (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect in the vein of the Ming loyalist White Lotus Sect, the Tiandihui's ancestral organization. [2] As the Tiandihui spread through different counties and provinces, it ...
The Boxers, officially known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (traditional Chinese: 義和拳; simplified Chinese: 义和拳; pinyin: Yìhéquán; Wade–Giles: I4-ho2-ch'üan2) among other names, were a Chinese secret society based in Northern China that carried out the Boxer Rebellion from 1899 to 1901. The movement was made ...
Tong (organization) A tong (Chinese: 堂; pinyin: táng; Jyutping: tong4; Cantonese Yale: tòhng; lit. 'hall') [1]: 53 is a type of organization found among Chinese immigrants predominantly living in the United States, with smaller numbers in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. In Chinese, the word tong means "hall" or "gathering place".
Yellow Sand Society. Boxer movement. Categories: Secret societies by country. Political organizations based in China. Organizations based in China by subject. Chinese diaspora.
[A]ll societies calling themselves at random White Lotus, communities of the Buddha Maitreya, or the Mingtsung religion (Manichaeans), or the school of the White Cloud, etc., together with all who carry out deviant and heretical practices, or who in secret places have prints and images, gather the people by burning incense, meeting at night and ...
Tongmenghui. The Tongmenghui of China[a] was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China 's Qing dynasty. [2][3] It was formed from the merger of multiple late-Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary groups.
As a secret society, the origins and history of the Green Gang are complex. The society has its roots in the Luojiao, a Buddhist sect founded by Luo Qing (羅清) in the mid-Ming dynasty; during the early 18th century in the Qing dynasty, the sect was introduced among workers involved in the transport of grain along the Grand Canal via the efforts of three sworn brothers: Weng Yan (翁岩 ...
The Yellow Sand Society[a] (Chinese: 黃沙會; Wade–Giles: Huang Sha Hui), [4] also known as Yellow Way Society (Chinese: 黃道會; Wade–Giles: Huang Tao Hui), [5] and Yellow Gate Society (Chinese: 黃門會; Wade–Giles: Huang Men Hui), [6] was a rural secret society and folk religious sect in northern China during the 19th and 20th ...