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The Zhou dynasty oriented religion to worshipping the broader concept of heaven. A large part of Chinese culture is based in the belief in a spiritual world. Countless methods of divination have helped answer questions, even serving as an alternative to medicine. Folklores have helped fill the gap between things that cannot be explained. There ...
Weixinism (Chinese: 唯心聖教; pinyin: Wéixīn shèngjiào; lit. 'Holy Religion of the Only Heart' or 唯心教; Wéixīnjiào) is a religion primarily focused on the "orthodox lineages of Yijing and feng shui ", [168] the Hundred Schools of Thought, [169] and worship of the "three great ancestors" (Huangdi, Yandi and Chiyou). [170]
Chinese popular or folk religion, usually referred to as traditional faith (chuantong xinyang) [196]: 49 is the "background" religious tradition of the Chinese, whose practices and beliefs are shared by both the elites and the common people. This tradition includes veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a ...
The culture of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a rich and varied blend of traditional Chinese culture with communist and other international modern and post-modern influences. During the Cultural Revolution, an enormous number of cultural treasures of inestimable value were seriously damaged or destroyed, and the practice of many arts ...
Chinese spiritual world concepts are cultural practices or methods found in Chinese culture.Some fit in the realms of a particular religion, others do not. In general these concepts were uniquely evolved from the Chinese values of filial piety, tacit acknowledgment of the co-existence of the living and the deceased, and the belief in causality and reincarnation, with or without religious ...
Society and culture of the Han dynasty. 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, China, showing scenes of daily life. The Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) was a period of Imperial China divided into the Western Han (206 ...
Aligning with Chinese anthropologists' emphasis on "religious culture", [61]: 5–7 the government considers these religions as integral expressions of national "Chinese culture". [77] A turning point was reached in 2005, when folk religious cults began to be protected and promoted under the policies of intangible cultural heritage.
Divination regarding 口, which was the same as Shàngdì and Shang Jia. Conversely, the Shang believed that Shàngdì, as Dì's superior component, possessed a negative counterpart associated with 'earth'. Many character versions depict the earthly counterpart of Shàngdì 上帝, named Xiàdì 下帝, composed of adopted deities and opposing people, and represented Dì's negative actions ...