Have you been to China?
Have you talked to one individual, much less a group of new Chinese underground Christians?
NO TRADITIONS
AT ALL.
Very simple.
I'm sorry it's too much for you to wrap your understanding around.
Sounds like you have CPFRTS--Chronic Pharisaical Fossilized Roman Traditions Syndrome.
It tends to cloud the mind and prevent spontaneity and RELATIONSHIP directly with God Almighty and Jesus our Lord, much more so following Holy Spirit's moment by moment guidance
. . . OUTSIDE the tidy little [from God's perspective] Roman box.
I'm grieved that you really are having trouble wrapping your understanding around such a simple fact that
millions of Chinese underground Christians are growing marvelously close to God and bringing others into The Church Universal daily with many miracles confirming
WITHOUT A SINGLE TRADITION rearing it's head as authority or law--or as anything else--just not there.
Now, sadly, a year and a half from their new Christian beginnings, they'll have formed their own traditions or been burdened down with those from other 'generous pharisees.' But initially,
NO
TRADITIONS--AS IN NONE.
You are aware of the number in the middle between -1 and +1? A marvelous little number.
In this case, it quite accurately represents the number of traditions these precious Chinese saints are aware of or bother with:
NO TRADITIONS AT ALL.
Very simple.
Did their Bibles arrive by airdrop or what?
SD
If you do not hold the Traditions of the Apostles, then you are not a Christian and should be avoided.
"And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they have received of us." (2 Thes. iii.6)