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If the anti-Manchu history is unsupported by evidence, what about the history linking the Hongmen to Shaolin Temple? The traditional history, in short, is that the monks of Shaolin temple aided the Emperor to repel some ill-defined Xi Lu barbarians, they refused the offered reward, are accused of plotting rebellion, their temple is destroyed by the Emperor, and only five monkssometimes named Ng Mui, Jee Shin Shim Shee, Fung Doe Duk, Miu Hin and Bak Mei survive. The temple is variously described as being in Gansu province, or Jiulian Mountain, with the events taking place in 1647, 1674, 1728 or 1732. The Xi Lu Legend appears to be a merging of at least seven different versions of the story. This legend may be considered a mythicizing of an historical event in 1641 involving monks of the real Shaolin temple located on Mount Song in Henan province, combined with messianist “Luminous King” traditions dating to the sixth century.
-http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/chinese_freemasons/Once upon a time, three Spanish knights landed on the island of Favignana, just off westernmost tip of Cicily. They were called Osso, Mastrosso and Carcagnosso and they were fugitives. One of their sisters had been raped by an arrogant nobleman, and the three knights had fled Spain after washing the crime in blood.
Somewhere among Favignana’s many caves and grottoes, Osso, Mastrosso and Carcagnosso found sanctuary. But they also found a place where they could channel their sense of injustice into creating a new code of conduct, a new form of brotherhood. Over the next twenty-nine years, they dreamed up and refined the rules of the Honoured Society. Then, at last they took their mission out into the world.
Osso dedicated himself to Saint George, and crossed into nearby Sicily where he founded the branch of the Honoured Society that would become known as the mafia.
Mastrosso chose the Madonna as his sponsor, and sailed to Naples where he founded another branch: the camorra.
Carcagnosso became a devotee of the Archangel Michael, and crossed the straits between Cicily and the Italian mainland to reach Calabria. There, he founded the ‘ndrangheta.
-JOHN DICKIE, Blood BrotherhoodsSorry for my broken English.
If role of the rituals in social sense is easy to notice and understand what about more esoteric rituals?
It clearly has to do what one actually wants to conjure.
But in my opinion, if one tries to get results quickly, most potent rituals should have blasphemy and debauchery as dominating elements.
HOWDY
For many years, media on Du and his exploits have been officially banned in China on the grounds that they encourage criminality. Many Chinese-language biographies of Du were banned, and writers and sellers of these books were arrested. Only until recently did critical studies on Du become more open, but the official ban has never been entirely lifted by the Chinese government.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_YueshengThere was a clannishness evoking Sicilian omertà, but the spirit of fraternity was by no means universal, and wherever the triad lodges formed themselves, whether in Singapore or San Francisco, they were apt to do so in rival dialect groups. Grouping by dialect was the first and most spontaneous of the characteristics of the overseas Chinese community, and the special sentiment of the emigrants for their home district was reflected in the remarkable network of native-place or dialect associations which they established in all the places in which they settled.
-LYNN PAN, Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese DiasporaYellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with Chinese immigrants as coolie slaves or laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States. It was later associated with the Japanese during the mid-20th century, due to Japanese military expansion, and eventually extended to all Asians of East and Southeast Asian descent.
The term refers to perceptions regarding the skin color of East Asians, the fear that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages and standards of living, and the fear that they would eventually take over and destroy western civilization, replacing it with their ways of life and values. The term also refers to the fear and or belief that East Asian societies would attack and wage wars with western societies and eventually wipe them out and lead to their total annihilation whether it be their societies, people, ways of life, history, and or cultural values.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_PerilTriad is an English word, first applied by Dr. William Milne in 1821, in recognition of the prevalence of the number three in the various societies’ names. There being no Chinese word for secret societies, Chinese writers historically referred to sects : jiaomen and political associations : huidang. The word Tong, meaning meeting hall or an interest/family group that meets in a hall, was also common and was similarly adopted. The various Tiandhihai or Hongmen of the nineteenth century were uncoördinated, highly independent, and certainly not keeping extensive records of their operations. Most of what is known is taken from information collected by government officialsnot a sympathetic source. How some of the groups went on to become, or inspire, organized criminal organizations; how some went on to become, or inspire, political parties or ideological movements; and how others evolved into, or maintained their identities as, mutual aid social clubs will not be detailed here.
– http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/chinese_freemasons/There would be possibilities to try to study how these quite secretive Chinese societies have been able to bring into being special kind of social, political or even criminal collective entities, but of course it’s not very importan for neidan & qigong practice.
I have very few Chinese books by myself in the moment; some physics, mathematics, some more specialized about econometrics etc.
But very nice is two-piece biography of legendary Big-Eared Du. Stories about his exploits are, at least for my taste, so called true crime at it’s best.
Problem is that rituals can be seemingly very effective in subtile brainwashing.
Or maybe it depends on whose side one’s interests are.
But as a kind of mundane illustration these certain Chinese societies are very good example how rituals can seemingly work effectively good or evil.
But these are, in their elaborate form, also becoming more and more old-fashioned like for example Freemasonry.
HOWDY
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