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Suzhou ( t=蘇州 |s=苏州 |p=Sūzhōu ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Called the cradle of Wu culture, Suzhou ...

position in the Chinese religious imagination was replaced by Tian (天), a more distant and moralistic figure. This being said, Shangdi is also the name given for God in the Standard Mandarin Union Version of the Bible ...

|hanja=天|馬|塚|金|冠 |rr=Cheonmachong geumgwan |mr=Ch'ŏnmach'ong kŭmgwan}} The Gold Crown from Cheonmachong is currently housed in Gyeongju National Museum. The crown was designated as the 188th National ...

Axel Schüssler suggests tengri as an etymology for tian (天, "sky; heaven; god"), which came into prominence with the Zhou Dynasty (1122 – 256 B.C.E.)"Because the deity Tiān came into prominence ...

despotic rule was the loss of the "mandate of heaven (天, 命 Tiānmìng)." The combined work of Confucius, the codifier and interpreter of a system of relationships based on ethical behavior, and Mencius ...

*Tian (天, or Heaven), appeared in literature probably around 700 B.C.E., or earlier (the dating of these occurrences depends on the date of the Shujing, aka "Book of History"). There are no specific "creation ...

In the religious field the reference to shangdi was overcome by the reference to Heaven dian 天 which ... Under the Zhou, another religious concept became predominant, the concept of Tian 天, Heaven. However ...

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre (referred to in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident, to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations ...

1||| (☰)111Force (乾 qián)heaven (天)northwest 2||¦ (☱)110Open (兌 duì)swamp (澤)west 3|¦| (☲)101Radiance (離 lí)fire (火)south 4|¦¦ (☳)100Shake (震 zhèn)thunder (雷)east 5¦|| (☴)011Ground ...

, which looks very similar to the existing character 天 (tiān) "sky." Another instance is 設 (shè) "designate" and 沒 (méi) "without," which are quite similar in their simplified ...