Wei Tian Zhi Ming ("This, the Mandate of Heaven") is a Zhou Song ancestral hymn from the same Decade of Qingmiao within the Shijing, praising the reigning virtue of King Wen and articulating the Mandate of Heaven, the doctrine that Heaven grants and can withdraw the right to rule based on the ruler's conduct, which the Zhou dynasty used to justify its conquest of the preceding Shang and which became foundational to later Confucian political theory.
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A Zhou Song ancestral hymn praising the reigning virtue of King Wen.
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A Zhou Song ancestral hymn from the same Decade of Qingmiao within the Shijing.
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Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds), Columbia University Press, 1999on the Zhou Song and the Mandate of Heaven doctrineView the Source Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
P. J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds), Hackett, 2005on the Mandate of Heaven in Zhou political theoryView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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