![]() Unfortunately, the Triads were unsuccessful. The Shaolin survivors vowed to avenge the temple and overthrow the Manchu rulers, and created 5 secret societies which would eventually become the Triads. It was destroyed and the monks were all slaughtered, except for 5 who survived. Fearing their abilities, either the Manchu emperor or his advisers ordered the imperial army to attack the monastery. The story of the Triads begins with the Shaolin monks of a monastery who fought for the Ching dynasty and defeated the enemies of the Manchu emperor in 1674. Two of the current Triads are centuries old, the Red Dragon Triad and the White Lotus Triad. Many new Triads were created during those same centuries. In those centuries, many of the Triads were destroyed by the imperial forces of China, revolutionaries, rival Triads, invaders, and so on. It's an organization that is almost twice as old the Sicilian Mafia, nearly 400 years. Triads (Heaven and Earth Society) is the oldest criminal organization in the world.
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