Analysis of the reasons for the prosperity and decline of Mingjiao, why did the once powerful Mingjiao suddenly disappear?
Those who have read Jin Yong**'s "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Zhang Wuji, Xiao Zhao, Xie Xun and others must have heard of this organization and must be deeply impressed. When I read it at the time, many people thought that this was made up by Jin Yong**, but in fact, this is the real Mingjiao in Chinese history.
And the famous Fang La in history is actually the ancestor of Mingjiao. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the rebel army led by Fang La dealt a positive blow to the rule of Song Huizong, and even more shook the country of Song Huizong, and the Xiao Ming King in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty was also a member of the Ming Sect, and the Red Turban Army uprising led by him was also a religious uprising, so Zhu Yuanzhang was also a member of the Ming Sect.
In this way, Fang La and Zhu Yuanzhang were both members of the Ming Sect, so why did the Ming Sect suddenly disappear?
How powerful is Mingjiao?
Mingjiao is also known as"Manichaeism"It was an ancient sect in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
The founder of Manichaeism came from a pious family and was introduced to the sect at the age of four by his father, who was a member of the Erwu sect. However, Mani was a very intelligent man, and at the age of 24, he learned new teachings from his original sect and founded his own new religion. His ideas soon influenced a group of people in the neighborhood, and he led a group of loyal followers on a missionary journey.
Under Mani's leadership, the kings of the Middle East at that time quickly became adherents of the religion under his influence, and Manichaeism took root throughout the Middle East.
However, the rapid spread of Manichaeism brought fear to others, and Manichaeism was charged and imprisoned, and Manichaeism was suppressed. But a few decades later, Manichaeism became the world religion of the time, and soon appeared in Egypt and North Africa, and even became a legal denomination in the Roman Empire.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, due to the Tang Dynasty's open frontier policy, its reputation spread far and wide, but at the same time, under the influence of the Silk Road, Chinese and Western cultures began to blend, and Manichaeism was also introduced to the Tang Dynasty at this time, because the believers at that time called the main god"Mingzun"。As the believers call the Lord God"Mingzun", hence the emergence of Manichaeism.
Initially, the Ming emperors, from Wu Zetian to the Tang Dynasty, took a position of large-scale suppression of Mingjiao. However, due to the presence of the Uighurs"Anshi Rebellion"The Tang Dynasty was pacified, and Mingjiao took root in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was also called"The land of the Buddha"！It's a pity later"Destroying the Buddha"appeared, and Mingjiao could only preach secretly in the shadows.
Why did Mingjiao disappear?
Although Mingjiao has a long history in China, it is difficult to get on the stage of history, even Mingjiao, all dynasties have been very seriously suppressed, Zhu Yuanzhang is a descendant of Mingjiao, but when he founded the Ming Dynasty, he almost ordered an all-round suppression of Mingjiao, Mingjiao is more difficult to survive than before, so Mingjiao disappeared.
Because they are also targeted by the rulers.
In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, Mingjiao is too harmful and will even threaten the rule of the ruler, so no matter which dynasty it is, it cannot sit idly by.
Although Mingjiao was suppressed by successive dynasties, it merged with the Pure Land sect and folk beliefs, and grew rapidly and became famous.
Unlike other sects, the teachings of Mingjiao are not so strict, and things such as drinking alcohol and eating meat are allowed in Buddhism, so many people join the three religions and nine streams, which is the reason for the development and growth of Mingjiao, but it is also the bane of Mingjiao's decline.
Because there are many people of the three religions and nine streams, it is easy to produce a lot of ideas, but at the same time, Mingjiao exists in the education of civil society, so it is easy to produce a very powerful force between different places and in key places, which is a great threat to the rulers.
Zhang Jiao and others once said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rebelled against the Yellow Turban Army, and now Mingjiao wants to rely on this religious force to fight against Mingjiao and repeat the mistakes of the past.
However, even under such circumstances, Mingjiao still survived tenaciously, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he fought side by side with Zhu Yuanzhang and relied on Mingjiao to seize the world.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang is also a member of the Ming Sect, and he knows how dangerous it will be if such a force becomes strong, and he himself is the best example. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he issued a decree strictly prohibiting Mingjiao and included it in the "Ming Dynasty Travel Law".
However, many scholars believe that although Mingjiao seems to have disappeared after this, it still pinned its hopes on another way of survival, and the White Lotus Sect in the late Qing Dynasty was probably one of the branches of Mingjiao, but whether this is the case or not, only history knows.