Who is Emperor Haotian?

Emperor Haotian is the God of Heaven, the honorific title of Zhongtian in China mythology, which officially appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. The god who dominates the universe, the highest god of Confucianism, represents or is equal to heaven.

Haotian God is the heaven with supreme status, and is the highest god of orthodox sacrifice in China. The official supreme god of China. Tiandi is called Tiandi, God, Emperor and God. He is the master of nature and the master of the next country. He is surrounded by the sun, moon, wind and rain as envoys of ministers and workers.

The mysterious concept in ancient times gradually disappeared, and the concept of "God" was gradually replaced by the natural "Heaven", which is the embodiment of moral public opinion and formed a foundation of China's cultural belief in later generations. "Worship the Heaven and worship the ancestors" is the most basic belief element in China culture.

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The ability of early human beings to understand and transform nature was low, and many aspects of production and life did not come from themselves, but from the gift of nature. The survival and development of early human beings could not be separated from natural conditions. In the long run, the sky and nature are gradually personified and deified in people's minds, and become an objective existence with thinking and emotion to serve God.

God, the supreme god of Confucianism. The idea of God does not come from Christianity in the west, but the inherent religious idea of the Chinese nation. The word "land" appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. According to the research of modern scholar Wang Guowei, "land" is the initial word of "land", that is, the pedicle of a flower, that is, the beginning of all things, so businessmen use this word to show respect for their ancestors.

In the era of the unity of god and man, the ancestor god is the supreme god, the ancestor of the nation and the Lord of the gods, so it is also called "emperor".

In the late Shang dynasty, not only ancestors, but all the dead kings were honored as "emperors", so some scholars believe that the gods of Shang nationality are actually an abstraction of the dead kings (ancestors). Whether ancestors or ancestors, this "emperor" or "god" has a strong clan color and is the supreme god of a surname or clan.

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