Huazhaidao

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Huazhaidao (华斋道 "Way of Flowers and Fasting") is a Chinese folk religious sect of Henan that as of the 1980s was a proscribed religion in China as testified by the arrest of various Communist Party members who joined the sect in those years.^[1]

History

Yang Sende (or Desen) and Yang Maicun were two members of the sect who were arrested in Linzhou, Henan, in the 1980s.^[1] According to official reports, Sende was a brigade leader and Communist Party member since 1946.^[1] The Yangs spread the teachings of the Huazhaidao sect by claiming their efficacy in healing the sick.^[1] In Linzhou they persuaded dozens of Communist Party members and local civil servants to join the Huazhaidao.^[1]

See also

• Chinese salvationist religions

References

Sources

• Munro, Robin; Mickey, Spiegel (1994). Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1564321053. 
  • List first published in: "Appendix: Sects and Societies Recently or Currently Active in the PRC". Chinese Sociology & Anthropology. 21 (4): 103–104. 1989. doi:10.2753/CSA0009-46252104102.