• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • qualities of Tian and Shangdi appear to have merged in later literature and are now worshiped as one entity ("皇天上帝", Huángtiān Shàngdì) in, for example, the...
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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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