Before And After The Founding Of Secret Societies And Rural Society

"Hui-dao men"is the combination of"huimen"and"daomen", which is one of the religious and fetishistic secret societies born in the end of the feudal society. In the period of liberation war, the turbulence of society, the famine and hunger in large area and the weakness of social control provided appropriated social environment for the growth and spread of Hui-dao men. In this period , Anhui Hui-dao men expanded and developed sharply.Hui-dao men have certain social function in particular history context, and frequently became the organizer and leader of mutinous struggle of farmers and other lower organization.In the period of the Northern Warlords, Hui-dao men play an important role in the aspect of preventing bandits, safeguarding village and resisting tax. In the period of Anti-Japanese War, Hui-dao men also resisted the aggression of Japan. Nevertheless, in the period of liberation war, with the supporting of Kuo Mingtang and the changing of objective environment, the Hui-dao men'characteristics of feudalism, dropping behind and destroying still further emerging and cause the out-of sequence of rural society.The new regime not only calmed down the commotion of Anhui Hui-dao men by the way of political disintegration and force, but also propagandized and arranged positively after that. After the founding of New China, the new regime have adopted sound policy and tactics, by the way of large-scale mass campaign, banned and disintegrated completely the organization of Hui-dao men.The new regime judged the social problem from the angle of politics mostly in the early period after the founding of New China, and the social problem is sometimes looked upon as political matter. A little deviation also appeared in the motion of banning Hui-dao men, and the striking face was too big and cause a little of unjust, false or wrong case.By the expanding of state authority, the new regime reinforced the local control who bans Hui-dao men simultaneous, by the land reform realized the change of rural social authority, by the founding of mass organization such as peasant association and economic entities such as mutual aid team, cooperative realized the innovation of rural social organization, by the developing of peasant education and abolishing feudalism superstition realized country society belief moulds. The reconstruction of rural society made the organization of Anhui Hui-dao men fail to revive once again large-scale and tend to die out gradually.