1966 AD–1976 AD
Cultural Revolution and ritual destruction
Religion · Chinese traditions · Religion and conflict
The Cultural Revolution banned religious activities and brought destruction to numerous sites and monuments. This traumatic rupture did not eliminate every form of religious practice.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1966–1976
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- Horst J. Helle — China: Promise or Threat? (2017), pp. 53–55 (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.