EALC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Laozi, Sichuan, Northern Wei
14 Nov 2018
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Yellow turbans = peasant rebellion with religious reasons, believed that everything was going to start becoming yellow in the sense of corresponding to earth phase of qi. Yellow turbans were overturned by a combination of warlords. Most of the surviving accounts were written by negative accounts. Similar beliefs to yellow turbans, but did not rebel like the yellow turbans. Allowed to continue, had state sponsorship in the northern wei (while carving buddha statues time) Not the beliefs or practices that determine whether religion is tolerated, but would they overtly proclaim their fiety to the government. Claimed a parallel celestial bureaucracy, but they would say that these celestial masters would be the only way to contact them. Appealed originally to lowest levels of society, impressed by an all you can eat communal mess hall because they barely even had food in their own home town, desperate individuals. Different classes of people -> different strands of daoism that appealed to different classes.
