Draft:Chenwei
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Chenwei Shin'i (讖緯, しんい) is a term that refers to prophecy books and "evening threads" [clarification needed] that reflect a mystical version of Confucianism. This form of literature was common in China during the Han Dynasty.
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Chinese | 讖緯 | ||||||
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"Chen" means "prophecy" or "sign", and it refers to the writings of the arts of witchcraft and alchemy of the Qin and Han dynasties. These writings refer to the secret principles of ominous and catastrophic omens, which developed over time into a popular cult of idolatry and divination that took place in ancestral temples and Daoist temples, and from there went from abstraction to reading bamboo sticks common even today.
"Wei" is a literature that evolved from giving far-reaching interpretations to the Confucian classics of the Han dynasty. After the reign of Emperor Guang Wu of the Eastern Han dynasty, the term "internal learning" stuck with them, but these writings were originally called "external learning".
It is a cryptic word made up by shamans and alchemists in the Qin and Han Dynasties to foretell good and bad fortune. Later, the folk developed in Sìmiào or Taoist temples to ask gods for divination, and gradually it was simplified to Kau chim.[1]
Chenwei studies are also used to predict a political future as in the Revolutionary Kanbun theory.