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"Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwest China. [1] FAST has a 500 m (1,640 ft) diameter dish constructed in a natural depression in the landscape.
Tian (天) is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven and a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophy, and religion. During the Shang dynasty (17th―11th century BCE), the Chinese referred to their highest god as Shangdi or Di (帝, 'Lord'). [1] During the following Zhou dynasty, Tian became synonymous with this figure.
Related religions. Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because traditional Chinese religion is polytheistic, stemming from a pantheistic view that divinity is inherent in the world. [1] The gods are energies or principles revealing ...
The Tiananmen / ˈtjɛnənmən / [ 1 ] (also Tian'anmen, [ 2 ] or the Gate of Heaven-Sent Peace, is the entrance gate to the Forbidden City palace complex and Imperial City in the center of Beijing, China. It is widely used as a national symbol.
e. The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: Tiānmìng; Wade–Giles: T'ien1-ming4; lit. 'Heaven's command') is a Chinese political ideology that was used in Ancient China and Imperial China to legitimize the rule of the king or emperor of China. [1] According to this doctrine, Heaven (天, Tian) bestows its mandate [a] on a virtuous ruler.
Diyu (traditional Chinese: 地獄; simplified Chinese: 地狱; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions.
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups. The Five Great Mountains (simplified Chinese: 五 岳; traditional Chinese: 五 嶽; pinyin: Wǔyuè) refers to five of the most renowned mountains in Chinese history, [1] which have been the subjects of imperial pilgrimage by emperors throughout ages. They are associated with the ...
The Three Great Emperor-Officials are the Heavenly Official (天官 tiānguān), the Earthly Official (地官 dìguān) and the Water Official (水官 shuǐguān). They administer all phenomena in the three spheres, [citation needed] and were thought to be able to take away sin. Chinese playwrights popularized the worship of these gods by ...