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  2. Tui bei tu - Wikipedia

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    Tui bei tu (traditional Chinese: 推背圖; simplified Chinese: 推背图; pinyin: tuī bèi tú) is a Chinese prophecy book from the 7th-century Tang dynasty.The book is known for predicting the future of China, and is written by Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang (袁天罡), and has been compared to the works of famous western prophet Nostradamus. [1]

  3. Chen prophecy - Wikipedia

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    Chen 讖 is the Chinese term for 'prophecy'. [1] It is also written chan [2] or, in the Wade–Giles transliteration as "ch'an": [3] "The Ch'an, couched in enigmatic language, predicted luck and disaster, and constituted oracle books."

  4. Liu Bowen - Wikipedia

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    Liu is also known for his prophecies and has been described as the "Divine Chinese Nostradamus". [3] He and Jiao Yu co-edited the military treatise known as the Huolongjing ( Fire Dragon Manual ). Liu Bowen initially aided Zhu Yuanzhang in his ascent to power, but later Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong quarrelled with Liu, forcing Liu to resign.

  5. Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Four Pests Campaign in post-revolutionary China targeted rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows based on specific perceived threats to public health and agriculture. Rats, carriers of diseases with the potential to transmit illnesses to humans, were deemed a significant hazard to public health and were known to inflict damage on stored ...

  6. Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Taijitu diagram featuring the wuxing in the center (from the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China by Chen Menglei). Wuxing originally referred to the five major planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus), which were with the combination of the Sun and the Moon, conceived as creating five forces of earthly life.

  7. Jingjiao Documents - Wikipedia

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    Restored Mogao Christian painting, possibly a representation of Jesus Christ.The original work dates back to the 9th century. The Jingjiao Documents (Chinese: 景教經典; pinyin: Jǐngjiào jīngdiǎn; also known as the Nestorian Documents or the Jesus Sutras) are a collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from ...

  8. Shaobing Song - Wikipedia

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    Some believe that certain lines contain references to the future of China at the time including: Jingnan campaign (1399-1402) [4] Tumu Crisis [5] Rise of Zheng He; Political unrest of Wei Zhongxian (魏忠贤乱政) [4] Fall of the Ming dynasty and rise of the Qing dynasty; First Opium War; First Sino-Japanese War [6] Founding of the Republic ...

  9. Wufang Shangdi - Wikipedia

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    The worship of the Five Deities by both commoners and rulers of China is a very ancient practice, dating back at least to the Neolithic. [7] Already in the theology of the Shang dynasty , the supreme God of Heaven ( Shangdi or Di ) was conceived as manifesting in a fourfold form and will, the four 方 fāng ("directions" or "sides") and their ...