{"id":39,"date":"2012-04-29T23:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-09-16T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:24:05","slug":"chinese-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/2012\/04\/29\/chinese-cosmology\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as mankind can recall, everyone has lived under one sky, the same sky. But, not every observer sees the sky exactly the same as the next person; rather, they see the sky differently leading to numerous ideas and philosophies being created. The ancient Chinese cosmology of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0to 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD and medieval European cosmology of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0to 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries are two forms of cosmology that greatly differed. Unlike European cosmology, which explained the position of the earth relative to the other planets, Chinese cosmology only positioned China and the Earth in the structure of the universe.\u00a0 Moreover, while European cosmology acknowledged a creator-creation relationship with God, Chinese cosmology did not believe in such a relationship. Instead, Chinese cosmology revered the emperor, known as the \u201cSon of God,\u201d who performed \u201castronomically timed rituals\u201d to maintain the balance between heaven and earth (North 137, Krupp 193). Despite the vast differences between cultures and time periods, these two ancient cultures still share similarities such as: a set of twelve symbols to represent the cycle of the year, a belief that irregularities in the sky are omens, and a theory that the universe is fashioned from certain elements. Even though medieval European cosmology came after ancient Chinese cosmology, it is interesting to note that the Chinese were more advanced when dealing with cosmological aspects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/karenhuang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Podcast Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as mankind can recall, everyone has lived under one sky, the same sky. But, not every observer sees the sky exactly the same as the next person; rather, they see the sky differently leading to numerous ideas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/2012\/04\/29\/chinese-cosmology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"bjork","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/author\/bjork\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"As far as mankind can recall, everyone has lived under one sky, the same sky. But, not every observer sees the sky exactly the same as the next person; rather, they see the sky differently leading to numerous ideas and &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cosmos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}