Chinese Dionysus

How come the ancient Chinese never developed the ecstatic, sexual-open fertility cults that the Mediterranean civilizations had? How could one come about, what would it look it, how popular could it become, and how long could it last?

The Shang had wine-related cults that quickly devolved into orgies and suchlike. King Zhou of Shang (the last King) was known for his orgiastic romps with court women in palace forests and suchlike. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a fertility cult, though - but it did have some elements of the spiritual in it (the Shang were pretty spiritual people in general, anyway).

The Zhou Dynasty that succeeded the Shang did its best to blacken the reputation of King Zhou, and with the 'propriety' of the early Zhou Kings emphasized in Confucianism (especially the propriety of King Wen), such behavior eventually became less acceptable.
 
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