Emperor Shang of Han (Chinese: 漢殤帝; pinyin: Hàn Shāngdì; Wade–Giles: Han Shang-ti; late October or early November 105 – 21 September 106) was an infant...
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Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang Ti), also called simply Di (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì), is the name of the Chinese Highest Deity...
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February 13 – He of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (b. AD 79) September 21 – Han Shangdi, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (b. 105) Decebalus...
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The Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Regions' Highest Deities" or "Highest Deities of the Five Regions"), or simply Wǔdì (五帝 "Five Deities") or Wǔshén (五神 "Five...
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106 February 13 – He of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (b. AD 79) September 21 – Han Shangdi, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (b. 105) Decebalus...
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Chinese theology (redirect from Huangtian Shangdi)
Huángtiān Shàngdì); others are "Great Deity the Heavenly King" (天皇大帝 Tiānhuáng Dàdì) and "Supreme Deity of the Vast Heaven" (昊天上帝 Hàotiān Shàngdì). God is...
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Alexander of Abonoteichus, Greek mystic and oracle (d. 170) Han Shangdi, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (d. 106) Marcus Sedatius Severianus, Roman politician...
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Society (simplified Chinese: 拜上帝会; traditional Chinese: 拜上帝會; pinyin: Bài Shàngdì Huì) was a religious movement founded and led by Hong Xiuquan which drew...
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During the period of Emperor Wu of Han, worship of Taiyi was an official belief, ranked above the Wufang Shangdi and worshipped by the Emperor himself...
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Xuanwu (god) (redirect from Xuantian Shangdi)
the words "Dark (or Mysterious) Heavenly Highest Deity" (玄天上帝 Xuántiān Shàngdì) appeared before him. The woman in labor was a manifestation of the goddess...
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Wǔfāng Shàngdì). It is also one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations, which are the astral representations of the Wufang Shangdi. The Azure...
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Southern Han (Chinese: 南漢; pinyin: Nán Hàn; Jyutping: Naam4 Hon3; 917–971), officially Han (Chinese: 漢), originally Yue (Chinese: 越), was a dynastic state...
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cosmologically associated god titled Shàngdì, whose divinity was similar to that believed by the Shang. In particular, the Han-era Huainanzi, a compilation of...
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Yellow Emperor (category Wufang Shangdi)
part of the Five Regions Highest Deities (Chinese: 五方上帝; pinyin: Wǔfāng Shàngdì) in Chinese folk religion. Calculated by Jesuit missionaries, who based...
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(17th―11th century BCE), the Chinese referred to their highest god as Shangdi or Di (帝, 'Lord'). During the following Zhou dynasty, Tian became synonymous...
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concept that was influential for almost every succeeding dynasty. Like Shangdi, Heaven (tian) ruled over all the other gods, and it decided who would...
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Murals of the Dahuting Tomb (Chinese: 打虎亭汉墓; pinyin: Dahuting Han mu) of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), located in Zhengzhou, Henan province,...
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The Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) was the second imperial dynasty of China. It followed the Qin dynasty, which had unified the Warring States of China...
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were called dì (帝; 'deities'), and the utmost progenitor was Shangdi ('highest deity'). Shangdi is identified with the dragon, symbol of the unlimited power...
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White Emperor (category Wufang Shangdi)
Deity of the Western Peak") is one of the five manifestations of the deity Shangdi. He is associated with metal, the west, and autumn. As a human he was Shǎohào...
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Religion in China (section Qin and Han)
religion of the Han was focused on the idea of the incarnation of God as the Yellow Emperor, the central figure of the Wufang Shangdi. The idea of the...
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Ziying of Qin (category CS1 Simplified Chinese-language sources (zh-hans))
claimed illness to remain absent from court, conspiring with the eunuch Han Tan [zh] to assassinate [Zhao] Gao. — Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian...
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temples and monasteries associated with the Lord of the North, Xuantian Shangdi. The Wudang Mountains are renowned for the practice of tai chi and Taoism...
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Religious Confucianism (section Shangdi)
seventy-two disciples, Mencius, Zhu Xi, and Shangdi. Religious Confucianism has had state sponsorship since the Han dynasty, and in all subsequent major dynasties...
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Heidi (god) (category Wufang Shangdi)
one of the cosmological "Five Forms of the Highest Deity" (五方上帝; Wǔfāng Shàngdì). He is also identified as Zhuānxū (颛顼), today frequently worshipped as...
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Western Han (206 BC – 9 AD and 23–25 AD) and the Eastern Han (25–220 AD). The rulers of the Shu Han, one of the three successor states to the Han dynasty...
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Qin's wars of unification (section Conquest of Han)
and south on Handan, the Zhao capital. Three Qin armies embarked from Shangdi (上地; present-day Shaanxi), Jingxing (井陉; present-day Jingxing County, Hebei)...
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Chinese folk religion (redirect from Han folk religion)
popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. Vivienne Wee described it as "an...
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Chidi (god) (category Wufang Shangdi)
thought and Tu Shi, the founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang, is said to be the son of the Red Emperor; in the Han dynasty God of the Five Directions, the...
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the Jade Lord; the Highest Emperor; Great Emperor of Jade (玉皇上帝 Yu Huang Shangdi, or 玉皇大帝 Yu Huang Dadi). There are many stories in Chinese mythology involving...
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