Do China people have their own religion?

The religion that China people believe in now is not Buddhism, let alone Confucianism and Taoism, but "atheism". Confucianism and Taoism are considered to be religions in China, which makes sense, because they are native to China, but to be precise, Confucianism is not a religion, but should be called "Confucianism", that is, "Confucianism"; Taoism has absorbed a lot of Buddhist theological theories during its development, and it is no longer a local religion in China, or even a "cult". In fact, China has no religion of its own. Religion, known as one of the "social ideologies", was founded by some people according to some formed concepts such as cosmology, world outlook and values, from which accurate doctrines, rules, rituals and theological thoughts were derived, which had considerable philosophical significance and formed a clear view of God and afterlife. "God view" refers to what believers regard as God, and "afterlife view" refers to the attribution of human soul that believers believe in. Without the concepts of God and the afterlife, it cannot be called "religion". The reason why "Confucianism" can't be established is that Confucianism has never established a clear view of God and the afterlife, and it can only be classified as a philosophical thought. Confucianism came into being in the Spring and Autumn Period in China, and it was separated from the "outstanding schools" represented by Confucius and Mozi, including Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi and other philosophical schools. Confucian scholars in Han Dynasty interpreted Confucianism as Confucian classics, latitude and metaphysics, which was produced by absorbing the rites of Zhu, Shi and Bu in classical Confucianism. In the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu and others rejected Buddhism and merged some Taoist thoughts, thus deriving the Confucian "Daoism". After the Song and Ming Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism were absorbed in large quantities, resulting in Neo-Confucianism represented by Zhu Cheng School, but it is still a philosophical academic thought and has not been included in the religious category. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that Kang Youwei wrote The Reform of Kao Kong, calling Confucius the founder of Confucianism and Confucianism "Confucianism" that the theory of "Confucianism" came into being. Actually, this is a myth. Confucianism is still an academic thought, which has nothing to do with religion. The so-called "Confucius Temple" is actually the legendary place where Confucius gave lectures. It should be called "Confucius Forum", which has nothing to do with religion. Tao is said to have been created by Laozi (Li Er, also known as Lao Dan) in the Spring and Autumn Period, but it is not. Zhang Daoling, the founder of Taoism in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was founded around A.D. 142, and absorbed the knowledge of witchcraft, divination and divination of ancient and early Confucianism in China. Because you have to pay five dou meters, it is also called "five dou meters road". The latter disciple revered Zhang Daoling as "Zhang Tianshi", and Taoism has since been called "Stone Heaven". Taoism has absorbed the metaphysical thoughts in Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching, so it respects Lao Zi as an "old gentleman on the throne", taking Tao Te Ching, Zheng Yijing and Taiping Dongting Jing as classics. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Kou, a Taoist priest in Songshan Mountain in the Northern Wei Dynasty, formulated a new chanting method during the movement, changing Taoism into a "new way". Lu, a Taoist priest in Lushan Mountain in the south, sorted out the three-hole classics and compiled a document model, and Taoism began to be systematic. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Taoism in northern and southern Shi Tian merged with the sects of Shangqing, Lingbao and Jingming, and "orthodox" Taoism was formed in the Yuan Dynasty. 1 167, Wang Zhongyang founded the quanzhen school, which was very popular for a while, and Taoism was officially divided into the orthodox school and the quanzhen school. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taoism and Buddhism were mixed, which confused Buddhism's view of God and afterlife, but failed to establish its own complete theological theoretical system. So Taoism has evolved into a superstition, not a religion. Some people say that Taoist thought is Taoist theory, but it is not. Taoism is the general name of Laozi, Zhuangzi and other philosophical schools in the pre-Qin period, which is opposite to Confucianism, and then combined with Xue Ming and Fa to form "Huang Lao Xue". During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism gradually evolved into Taoism due to the prevalence of Confucianism, the integration of metaphysics and the infiltration of Buddhism, but it was not directly related to Taoism. Most importantly, Taoist thought has no clear view of God and afterlife. Buddhism has a complete view of God and afterlife, but like Islam, it is a foreign religion, not produced in China. The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni (about 565-486 BC), was originally a Nepalese prince. He has lived in the palace since he was a child. Out of his understanding of life and death and human nature, he was tired of the extravagant life in the palace and dissatisfied with the theocracy of Brahmanism (Hinduism), which ruled the whole Indian Peninsula at that time. At the age of 29, he abandoned his wife and children and became a monk. It is said that he failed for many years and went through six years of penance. At that time, as Sakyamuni preached in Hindu-controlled areas, his disciples combined the Hinayana teaching method and Brahmanism with the afterlife view and some theological thoughts into the Sanzang teaching method, namely Mahayana Buddhism, and set up many idol worship of gods and buddhas. His view of divinity is that all "bodhisattvas" and "deities and buddhas" are carved into idols to worship, and his view of afterlife is called "the six divisions in the wheel of karma" by later generations (the view of reincarnation has a great influence on Taoism in Song and Ming Dynasties). When the Western Han Dynasty was introduced to China, it was quickly "localized" and absorbed the superstitious ideas such as ancestor worship and witchcraft circulated in ancient China, resulting in "China Buddhism" with many bodhisattvas, many gods and many buddhas. In the Tang Dynasty, Tibetan serf owner Songzan Gampo (also known as Tubo Zambo) converted to Buddhism under the leadership of his two wives (one of whom was a famous princess Wencheng), which greatly influenced the local religion Bonism in Tibet at that time. In the 8th century AD, Master Lotus Peanut, a monk from Tianzhu (Tianzhu Kingdom, also known as Wujin Kingdom, now under the control of Islam in Swat, northern Pakistan), entered Tibet and was introduced into Xianzong Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism. Buddhism and Bonism interact and merge with each other, forming "Lamaism", also known as "Tibetan Buddhism", which is a branch of Buddhism. There is something extremely unreasonable about Buddhism's view of gods and afterlife: from the early days when Buddhists and gods were introduced to China, the total number has exceeded 30,000, and now there are more. There are temples of these Bodhisattvas everywhere to worship their idols, but these idols are either carved with gold, silver, wood and stone or covered with mud. Once the Dragon King Temple is washed away by the flood, they can not only save themselves, but also have followers to rescue them. This can be said to be an incomparable contradiction. Moreover, according to the "reincarnation" theory, people who do good deeds are reincarnated as human beings, and those who do evil deeds are reincarnated as human beings, so the global population should be in a constant balance or even decline trend. However, according to scientific facts, the global population has not decreased or even exploded, which shows the fallacy of the concept of reincarnation. Nowadays, the folk "folk culture" in China is actually a continuation of the combination of ancient witchcraft in China and the method of calculating the date of the lunar calendar in China, as well as the penetration of Taoist and Buddhist sacrificial ceremonies, and has evolved into so-called "folk activities" that should be called "superstitions" according to "Scientific Outlook on Development", such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, offering sacrifices to heaven, praying for Yue Bai, divination, fortune telling and face reading. According to the political and cultural purposes of our country, it should have been banned a long time ago, but "folk culture" has been popularized, which is really a kind of sorrow. There is also a social ideology, which we can call "religion". Although it is called philosophical thought, its fundamental definition should be religion and atheism, because it has a very clear view of God and the afterlife and a very complete theoretical system, which can also be called atheism. His view of God is "godless", that is, "people-oriented", and can also be expressed as "there is no afterlife", which can be expressed as "people die like lights go out" and "atheism" originated from the atheistic historical materialism expounded by some philosophical schools in ancient Greece and Rome from 600 to 400 BC. In China, atheism sprouted in the Spring and Autumn Period (about 700-400 BC). But they didn't form a systematic philosophy. By the18th century, French and German materialist philosophers, such as Diderot and Feuerbach, summarized atheism as a philosophical theory. Until the middle of19th century, Marx, a German Jew, summed up atheism with historical materialism and dialectical materialism and established a systematic atheism system. It can be said that Marx is the official founder of atheism. Interestingly, Marx's good friend Engels was a devout Christian. 1At the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century, "atheism" was introduced into China, which led to the subversion of China's political and cultural system at that time. The "heaven" theory of "atheism" is often called "communist society" now. In fact, the whole "atheism" is imported and authentic, not the product of China's localization. Atheism has an obvious social disadvantage, because it advocates the idea of absolute materialism, artificially prohibits the theory that good and evil will eventually be rewarded, develops the extreme concept that adults can do whatever they want, and causes social problems such as money worship and hedonism, and overlooks morality and even law, resulting in social instability. Now there are fewer and fewer atheists in many countries, because many people gradually find that atheism can't bring spiritual satisfaction and happiness to people, so they still go back to other religions to find ways to satisfy their hearts. So China has no religion of its own. A Christian missionary said that if a religion belongs to only one country and one nation, the history of the "God" that this nation and country believe in will never exceed that of this nation or country, because only this country and nation can have their "God". What should China people believe? This is a question worth thinking about.