CHINESEFOLKRELIGION
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion or Shenism, are labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have historically comprised the predominant belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups up to the present day. Shenism describes Chinese mythology and includes the worship of shens which can be nature deities, Taizu or clan deities, city deities, national deities, cultural heroes and demigods, dragons and ancestors. "Shenism" as a term was first published by A. J. A Elliot in 1955.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Chinese folk religion
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