Thursday, December 6, 2007

Learn Mandarin online - Religion

Religions

     China is a multi-religious country. Buddhism, Taoism, Islam,
Catholicism and Protestantism, with the first three being more wide
spread.Various religions exert different influence on different ethnic
groups.

Islam is followed by the Hui, Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Tatar, Dongxiang,
Salar and Bonan nationalities;

Buddhism and Lamaism are followed by the Tibetan, Mongolian, Dai and
Yugur nationalities;

Christianity is followed by the Miao, Yao and Yi nationalities;

Shamanism is followed by the Oroqen, Ewenki and Daur nationalities;

the majority Han nationality believes in Buddhism, Christianity and
Taoism.

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