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  2. Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    This magical talisman was the physical manifestation of Heaven's mandate, tied up in the fortunes of ruling families, allowing the exiled southern aristocracy to retain their sense of cultural superiority and maintain the validity of Heaven's mandate in the face of counterfactual political reality. [41]

  3. Dynastic cycle - Wikipedia

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    The empire gains the Mandate of Heaven. [5] (The cycle repeats itself.) The Mandate of Heaven was the idea that the monarch was favored by Heaven to rule over China. The Mandate of Heaven explanation was championed by the Chinese philosopher Mencius during the Warring States period. [5] It has 3 main phases: The first is the beginning of the ...

  4. Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Zou Yan claims that the Mandate of Heaven sanctions the legitimacy of a dynasty by sending self-manifesting auspicious signs in the ritual color (yellow, blue, white, red, and black) that matches the element of the new dynasty (Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, and Water). From the Qin dynasty onward, most Chinese dynasties invoked the theory of the ...

  5. Religion of the Predynastic and Western Zhou - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, Heaven bestowed its Mandate upon men of worthiness, and in the Western Zhou case, King Wen of Zhou. King Wen was the sole recipient of the Mandate of Heaven acknowledged by bronze inscriptions, and no subsequent kings could establish themselves as recipients of the Mandate. Instead, they were sanctioned by divine will of Heaven to ...

  6. Yellow Turban Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The government corruption was perceived as causing plagues, natural disasters, and poor agricultural yields, reflecting that the emperor had lost his Mandate of Heaven. As flooding along the Yellow River forced farmers and military settlers south, the labor surplus incentivized exploitation.

  7. Tao - Wikipedia

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    The Tao can be roughly thought of as the "flow of the universe", or as some essence or pattern behind the natural world that keeps the Universe balanced and ordered. [8] It is related to qi, the essential energy of action and existence. The Tao is a non-dualistic principle—it is the greater whole from which all the individual elements of the ...

  8. Thuận Thiên (sword) - Wikipedia

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    Thuận Thiên (順天, lit. "to obey, to accord with, to comply with Heaven") was the mythical sword of the Vietnamese Emperor Lê Lợi, who liberated Vietnam from Ming occupation after ten years of fighting from 1418 until 1428. [1] Lê Lợi then proclaimed himself emperor of the newly established Lê dynasty.

  9. Interactions Between Heaven and Mankind - Wikipedia

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    Auspicious heaven honoured the ruler; calamitous heaven condemned his thinking with all calamity caused by political errors. If a calamity such as an earthquake or prolonged drought occurred, the Emperor was obliged to issue an edict of self-criticism (罪己詔/罪己召) admitting his lack of ability and virtue, leave the royal palace, enter ...