There was a time when movies with the theme of Ancient Puzzle Boy were all the rage, so gang organizations such as the Triad and New Ngee Ann were gradually understood by ordinary people. It used to be misunderstood that gangs were only available in movies.
In fact, not only in the film novel, in the real world, including Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and even the world, almost as long as there are Chinese, there are various gangs and societies, and these organizations are usually not modern, basically a little large-scale gang organizations, have a certain history, and have a lot of history.
Heaven and Earth will
If you trace the history of these gangs back to the source, you will find that no matter what the name of these gangs is, or where the territory is, eighty percent of the gangs are inextricably linked to a mysterious organization in history, which is the "Heaven and Earth Society" in Jin Yong's novel with the slogan of anti-Qing and restoration.
Tiandihui is not a fictitious gang created by Jin Yong, but a non-governmental organization that has been established in the early Qing Dynasty, most of the gangs and societies in modern times are developed by the Tiandihui, as early as the Daoguang years, the Tiandihui has opened branches in the coast of southern Guangdong, and later slowly developed many gang associations, the famous Xinyi'an is one of them.
There are many different versions of the origin of the Heaven and Earth Society, the most mysterious of which is that the Heaven and Earth Society was founded by six monks during the Qianlong period, and the founder was called Zheng Hong'er, also known as Wan Yunlong. Because when joining the Heaven and Earth Society, it is necessary to "worship heaven as the father and worship the earth as the mother", so it is called the heaven and earth society.
But the Heaven and Earth Society is actually the name of the outside world, and internally, it generally calls itself "Hongmen", the Hong character, which is the "Hong" of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
Of course, there is also a saying that the Heaven and Earth Society is also called the Triad, and the name of the Triad is also derived from the Hongwu character of Zhu Yuanzhang's year name, the Hong character is "three points of water" plus a "gong" word, and the word "gong" has the meaning of combining unity, so it is also called the triad.
But whether it was called the Heaven and Earth Society, the Hongmen Or the Triad, the original purpose of this mysterious organization was to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
According to current research, it is generally believed that the Heaven and Earth Society was founded by zheng chenggong, a national hero in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and that when the Southern Ming regime was about to be overthrown, Zheng Chenggong planned to retreat to Baodao to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty.
One of his advisers, Chen Jinnan, proposed that an underground organization could be secretly created in Fujian to unite the anti-Qing and restoration civilian forces, and zheng chenggong's approval was obtained, so that the Heaven and Earth Society was born.
Since then, in the history of hundreds of years, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society have spread throughout the provinces, forming a pattern of non-subordination of each portal, so the teachings and canons of the Heaven and Earth Society in various places are different, but they all recognize the name of the Heaven and Earth Society, for example, the most active Brotherhood in Hunan and Sichuan belongs to the local gang organization developed by the Heaven and Earth Society.
During the Xinhai Revolution, the Heaven and Earth Association, which claimed to be Hongmen, vigorously supported the revolutionary cause, and Hongmen, which belonged to overseas Chinese, provided a large amount of funds, and Sun Yat-sen Huang Xing during the Republic of China period also accepted the help of Hongmen.
However, in history, some members of the Heaven and Earth Society have transformed into triad organizations, such as modern gangs such as the Triad and New Ngee Ann; while overseas, there is a Tangkou called Zhi Gong, which has evolved into the Zhi Gong Party, which continues to serve the motherland and the nation.
Chinese has had a chivalrous spirit since ancient times, and the Heaven and Earth Association is the epitome of this kind of chivalry, and with the rolling of the torrent of the times, the chivalrous spirit of flesh and blood and righteousness will still write the future history of the jianghu.