manuscript

Manuscript written in ink on one side of a sheet of yellow paper with a background design in red. It lists 36 vows made by the Hongmen, floodgate, group for its followers. The Hongmen group was founded probably during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi, 1654-1722, as a secret society branching off from the Tiandihui, Heaven and Earth Society. According to this manuscript, the Tiandihui Hongmen group had about 12,000 members fighting during the Gaoxi Temple Rebellion in the year of Jiayao, probably 1734. This group devoted themselves to two main goals: one was to retaliate for the destruction of the Shaolin Temple and the other was to overthrow the Qing and to restore the Ming dynasty.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn12681
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 520 mm x 988 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
paper (fibre product); Chinese ink
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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