Abstract:
Quanzhen Taoism rose by the strife of the Han people in northern China when contradictions between northern ethnics became intense in the periods of the Jin and the Yuan kingdom. So it was complicatedly related with the Nuzhen and Mongolian ruling cliques. Conclusively speaking, the Nuzhen rulers mainly carried out a suppressing policy to Quanzhen Taoism but the Mongolian rulers persisted largely in preferential treatment to it. In addition to their respective realistic interests, these different relationships were concerned considerably with the two peoples’ different attitudes to religion, namely, the Nuzhen ruler’s flat attitude but the Mongolian ruler’s crazy attitude to religion. Therefore, in the course of government, the Nuzhen rulers cared much about controlling religious activity but the Mongolian rulers were much tolerant of it, which was also demonstrated by the rise anf fall of Quanzhen Taoism in those times.
