Religions of China
The Ancient Faith
About the religions of ancient China.
Religions of Ancient China - Confucianism - by Giles
Herbert A. Giles describes Confucianism in Ancient China.
Religions of China - Taoism - by Giles
"The philosophy associated with the name of Lao Tzu, who lived nobody knows when, -- probably about B.C. 600 -- which is popularly known as Taoism, from Tao, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and unthinkable principle on which it is based, operated with Confucianism, though in an opposite direction, in dislimning the old faith while putting nothing satisfactory in its place."
Maps of China
Maps of Chi'in, Han, and Shang, and the Yellow River.
Religions of China - Materialism - by Giles
"Yang Hsiung was a philosopher who flourished B.C. 53-A.D. 18. He taught that the nature of man at birth is neither good nor evil, but a mixture of both, and that development in either direction depends wholly upon environment."
Religions of China - Buddhism - by Giles
So early as the third century B.C., Buddhism seems to have appeared in China, though it was not until the latter part of the first century A.D. that a regular propaganda was established, and not until a century or two later still that this religion began to take a firm hold of the Chinese people.
Chinese Gods and Goddesses
Some of the major gods and goddesses of the Chinese.