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The Heavenly Official, full title: the Heavenly Official of Higher Origin and First-Rank Who Bestows Blessings (上元一品賜福天官, shàngyuán yīpǐn cìfú tiānguān), also known as the Great Emperor of Middle Heaven North Star (紫微大帝, zǐwēi dàdì).
The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: Tiānmìng; Wade–Giles: T'ien 1-ming 4; 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
For the etymology of Tian, Schuessler links it with the Turkic and Mongolian word tengri 'sky', 'heaven', 'deity' or the Tibeto-Burman words taleŋ and tǎ-lyaŋ , both meaning 'sky' or 'God'. [12] He also suggests a likely connection between Tian, diān 巔 'summit, mountaintop', and diān 顛 'summit', 'top of the head', 'forehead', which ...
Neo-Confucian thinkers such as Zhu Xi developed the idea of li Chinese: 理, the "reason", "order" of Heaven, that is to say the pattern through which the qi develops, that is the polarity of yin and yang. [91] [92] In Taoism the Tao Chinese: 道 ("Way") denotes in one concept both the impersonal absolute Tian and its order of manifestation (li).
Li Tianyuan (李天垣; Lǐ Tiānyuán) is the leader of the Heaven Hall and Yin Tianzheng's junior. Chang Jinpeng (常金鵬; Cháng Jīnpéng) is the leader of the Vermilion Bird Altar who is slain by Xie Xun. Bai Guishou (白龜壽; Bái Guīshòu) is the leader of the Black Tortoise Altar who is slain by Ding Minjun.
The Xiantiandao (Chinese: 先天道; pinyin: Xiāntiān Dào; lit. 'Way of Former Heaven', or "Way of the Primordial"; Vietnamese: Tiên Thiên Đạo, Japanese: Sentendō) or known as Blue/Green Lotus sect (青蓮教), also simply Tiandao (天道; Tiāndào; 'Way of Heaven'; Vietnamese: Thiên Đạo, Japanese: Tendō) is one of the most productive currents of Chinese folk religious sects ...
Li Ji (Tian Xuan Star) Wang Feng (Tian Ji Star) Liu Jin (Tian Quan Star) Wang Chu (Tian Heng Star) Peng Jiuyuan (Tian Xiang Star) Li Sanyi (Tian Ji Star) The Five Elements Water Virtue Stars of the Northern Dipper [note 5] The Water Virtue Star: Lu Xiong (Leader of the four righteous gods of the water department)
Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang 4 Ti 4), also called simply Di (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì; lit. 'God'), [1] is the name of the Chinese Highest Deity or "Lord Above" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tiān ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.