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"Five Belongings"
NOTES AND QUERIES
(a) Belonging to the Religion (皈依)
(b) Belonging to the Mean (飯中)
(c) Belonging to the Truth (皈正)
(d) Belonging to the Unity (歸一)
(e) Belonging to the Void (皈空)
"Four Tests"
(a) Test of True Self (考自)
(b) Test of Sincerity (考真)
(c) Test of Dedication (考願)
(d) Test of Sacrifice (考捨)
Also the Religion practised a rather sophisticated form of "sitting cross-legged" as a means to cure opium addicts.
(d) Yan Cheung Villa (仁昌別墅)
According to surviving elderly inmates, the Yan Cheung Villa was built by a group of persons from South China who belong to a society established about 1920—known as the Tung Sin She (同善社). It belongs to that body of the laity worshipping the 'Three Religions' of China i.e. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism*. It had followers in various parts of Kwangtung but no major centre. In the early 1930s the Society's leaders were looking for a site to build such a place, but Kwangtung was often in a disturbed state and they were of the opinion that a remote site in the New Territories of Hong Kong would be preferable, as the Colony had an enviable reputation for law and order, peace and quiet. Accordingly, a search was made for a suitable site. Tsuen Wan was then a small market town with a very quiet and beautiful hinterland and yet possessed excellent communications by sea and land with Hong Kong and Kowloon. A site with good fung shui in a locality with a propitious name was selected and agents bought land from local villagers.
* Mayers Chinese Reader's Manual p.298 describes them as the Three Systems of Doctrine (or Religion)' and states that they 'constitute the recognized systems of religion, philosophy and ethics among the Chinese'.
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"Five Belongings"
NOTES AND QUERIES
(a) Belonging to the Religion (4)
(6) Belonging to the Mean
(飯中)
(c) Belonging to the Truth
(皈正)
(d) Belonging to the Unity
(4-)
(e) Belonging to the Void
(皈空)
"Four Tests”""
(a) Test of True Self
(考自
(b) Test of Sincerity
(考真)
(考願)
(考捨)
(c) Test of Dedication
(d) Test of Sacrifice
Also the Religion practised a rather sophisticated form of "sitting cross-legged" as a means to cure opium addicts.
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(d) Yan Cheung Villa ( 4~#3)
According to surviving elderly inmates, the Yan Cheung Villa was built by a group of persons from South China who belong to a society established about 1920—known as the Tung Sin She ($ #). It belongs to that body of the laity worshipping the 'Three Religions' of China i.e. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism*. It had followers in various parts of Kwangtung but no major centre. In the early 1930s the Society's leaders were looking for a site to build such a place, but Kwangtung was often in a disturbed state and they were of the opinion that a remote site in the New Terri- tories of Hong Kong would be preferable, as the Colony had an enviable reputation for law and order, peace and quiet. Accord- ingly, a search was made for a suitable site. Tsuen Wan was then a small market town with a very quiet and beautiful hinterland and yet possessed excellent communications by sea and land with Hong Kong and Kowloon, A site with good fung shui in a locality with a propitious name was selected and agents bought land from local villagers.
* Mayers Chinese Reader's Manual p.298 describes them as the Three Systems of Doctrine (or Religion)' and states that they 'constitute the recognized systems of religion, philosophy and ethics among the Chinese'.
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