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December 22, 1883, the court ordered all the local officials must prohibited people from following the White Lotus or Eight Diagram Religion. White Lotus Religion has a long history in China. They arose many mass uprisings. In the Qing Dynasty, around the 1800 the religion again became a serious issue and exhausted the empire before the Opium War. Regarding the uprising you may refer to our research finding: Li Chien-min, "An Enquiry into the Causes of the 1976 Ahite-Lotus sect Uprising in Sichuan and Hubei".