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Hongmen is evolved from the "Heaven and Earth Society" in the Ming and Qing dynasties, has been established for more than 400 years, has more than 900,000 people, is currently the world's largest and largest underworld organization, headquartered in the United States, with many branches around the world, Hong Kong's triad is one of them.

Hongmen Triad

The triad in Hong Kong seemed to suddenly become busy overnight, and even the Hong Kong police and the Hong Kong government were alarmed, because Emperor Guan, who they had worshiped for generations, suddenly appeared and asked them to find and help a person named Gongsun Guiyi, and at the same time to the people who came to Hong Kong during this time and related to the exhibition.

The Hongmen Triad is said to be a branch of the Hongmen Tiandi Society, a well-known anti-Qing organization in Guangdong, with the purpose of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty". Because the Ming Dynasty monarch Zhu Yuanzhang was named "Hongwu", he took the word "Hong" and named "Hongmen". The word "Hong" has three points of water, so the "brothers" of different societies are all called "brothers" of three points of water.

There are two theories about the origin of the name of the triad: one theory refers to the gang being active in the southern Liangguang area, and the three major tributaries of the Pearl River, the Beijiang, Dongjiang and Xijiang rivers converge in the Pearl River Delta and flow into the sea, hence the name triad = long = wind = literature == cfwx =. Another theory comes from the Chaozhou Gang, saying that Chen Jinnan, the founder of Hongmen, died in battle with the Qing soldiers in the Huizhou area, and the successor Tianyou Hongying led well. People and horses are very prosperous, known as the time, place, and people, so it is called the triad. Because Hongmen Hongshuntang seal letter is triangular. Hence the organization uses the triangle as its logo. The triad, the English name of the triad, was named by the British colonial government in Hong Kong according to its name and flag.

1. Historical origin

Triad Waist Card Triad (English: Triad) was originally a non-governmental organization formed in the 1830s (10th year of Daoguang) from the border of Guangxi to Guangzhou, including Wuzhou, Zhaoqing and Foshan, as well as the villagers' organizations to protect themselves. After the Opium War, the people of the Pearl River system of Liangguang (Liangguang) changed their minds, especially in the contiguous areas of Guangzhou, Foshan, Xiangshan and Zhaoqing, coupled with the rise of Xiangyong and Tuanlian, and armed associations were numerous. Because he joined the Heaven and Earth Society, which is commonly known as Hongmen, it is for Hongmen. Another theory is that Hong Xiuquan launched the Jintian Uprising in Guangxi, which evolved into an "anti-Qing and Han" organization composed of Hong Renji, Li Wenmao, Luo Gang, Chen Kai and others. Gather people to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, carry out the Jiegan Uprising, call each other the children of Hongmen, and carry out the revolutionary deeds now known as the Guangdong Hongbing Uprising. Earlier than 1845 (Daoguang 25th year). Hong Kong's colonial government responded to the Qing Dynasty's request. Blockade of triad activities. In 1854, the colonial government of Hong Kong promulgated a decree to suppress triads and other clandestine societies.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty and after World War II, triads have evolved into a collective term for Hong Kong's traditional Jianghu secret societies. In the world, the term triad is generally used to refer to Chinese triad organizations, and most of the underground secret organizations in Hong Kong can be traced back to triads. For nearly half a century, the gangs of the triad have engaged in the so-called pornography, gambling and narcotics off-the-beaten-path industries such as collecting protection money, drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal gambling, and operating sex industries. Some members may also commit crimes such as theft, fraud, ticket kidnapping and intimidation and extortion. There are more than 200,000 members of Hong Kong's large triads, and 7-10% of the triad members in most of the small street gangs are active members. It can reach more than 500,000 people, so Hong Kong often mixes triads with triads. In Hong Kong today. It is also an offence to claim to be a member or member of a triad, to be a member or member of a triad, to use the name and name of any triad organization, and to be regarded as a person claiming to be a triad, by adopting any induction ceremony (e.g. flags, symbols, verses, prohibitions, oaths, hidden words and sacrificial vessels) of triad objects, many of which contain Taoist and Buddhist religious philosophies and terminology, the use of similar Hongmen initiation rituals, and the possession of offensive weapons, weapons, and guarding any arsenal or armory, Possession of any weapons, dangerous goods, objects. is liable to contravening the Societies Ordinance and committing a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of seven years' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. In view of the fact that there are many links between secret societies in Hong Kong and overseas, the Hong Kong Police have continued to crack down on any triad activities at an early stage from time to time.

2. Historical development

The Hong Kong triad organization was born in the early forties of the nineteenth century, as a sub-social system rich in subcultural characteristics, in this one hundred and sixty years of reproduction and change, on the one hand, it continued to uphold some of the mantles of the feudal folk secret society, especially the Hongmen triad in the Qing Dynasty; On the other hand, with the development of society, it has also continuously injected modern management models and livelihood methods, and gradually transformed into a professional criminal group that does all kinds of evil. At the present stage, it not only affects and endangers the economic operation and social order of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, but also infiltrates the evil exports from the hinterland, especially the Guangdong region, or sets up its own door or colludes with internal and external forces to form a vicious force, which is increasingly seriously threatening the social order of the infiltrated areas.

Triads have become synonymous with Chinese triad organizations, rather than referring to a specific criminal gang organization, just as mafia has become a general term for triad organizations in Western countries such as Italy and the United States. According to the current Societies Ordinance in Hong Kong, a "triad" in Hong Kong refers to any association that uses the "triad" ceremony and adopts or uses the title or name of "triad". It is further stated that any person who is a member of a "triad", or acts in a capacity as a member of a "triad", or who claims or claims to be a member of a "triad", or who participates in an assembly of a "triad", or who pays or gives assistance to, custody, controls, or is found to be in possession of a book, account, note, list of members, flag, flag or insignia belonging to a "triad" society or any branch of a "triad" society, shall be guilty of a triad offence.

The triads in Hong Kong mainly seek funds and profits by controlling prostitution, extorting protection money, usury, drug trafficking, cigarette smuggling, and even making and selling pirated CDs.

The Hong Kong Triad is a group of many different groups, and although they adopt a similar organizational structure, personnel ranks, and initiation ceremonies, they are not a unified organization. For example, "Jing Yi" was originally developed from "New Ngee An", but the members of "Jing Yi" did not accept the instructions of "New Ngee An". Due to the loose organization of triads, different organizations of the same parish in different regions may not belong to each other. The more powerful leaders are not always able to dictate to other leaders, and sometimes fight each other for profit.

As Hong Kong society has become more affluent, the Hong Kong triad organization no longer has the social and economic conditions to meet the full needs of its members, so that it can devote itself wholeheartedly to the organization, and one of the results is that the modern triad organization structure has become quite flexible, and the traditional eight ranks have been generally reduced to three ranks (red stick, four nine tsai and blue lantern). The complicated initiation ceremony has also been simplified, and now the most popular is the "hanging blue lantern" (commonly known as the big man), which is only a verbal agreement and does not need to go through a formal initiation ceremony.

As one of the most notorious and long-established Chinese gang criminal organizations in the world, the Hong Kong Triad has basically completed its global criminal export. It is no exaggeration to say that in any country or region where there is a large concentration of Chinese, there may be large or small triad forces and organizations in Hong Kong. From a geographical point of view, the Hong Kong triad has a large presence in the United States and Canada in North America, Australia in Oceania, and Japan and "Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand" in Asia. From the perspective of time, the vicious export of the contemporary Hong Kong triad mainly began in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century. In 1956, the British authorities in Hong Kong deported nearly 1,000 triad elements, most of whom were at the helm of the cemetery. For example, the members who were dismissed to Macao successively established Macao branches such as '14k', 'He Shengyi', 'Xin Ngee An', and 'Shuifang', and after bloody battles with other rudders such as "Li Xu" and "Tongyi", these branches became the main body of Macao's triad forces.

But on the other hand, they play an irreplaceable role in protecting the interests of the Chinese community, safeguarding the traditional Chinese culture, cleaning up the scum of the nation, saving the nation and the country from peril, and promoting the development of the nation and the country. (To be continued......)