''Ming yun'' () is a concept of the personal life and destiny in the
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration of ''Shen (Chinese folk religion), shen'' ('spirits') and Chinese ancestor worship, ances ...
. ''Ming'' means 'life', '
right
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', or 'destiny', and ''yun'' means 'circumstance' or 'individual choice'. ''Mìng'' is given and influenced by
Tian 'heaven', akin to the
Mandate of Heaven
The Mandate of Heaven ( zh, t=天命, p=Tiānmìng, w=, l=Heaven's command) is a Chinese ideology#Political ideologies, political ideology that was used in History of China#Ancient China, Ancient China and Chinese Empire, Imperial China to legit ...
of monarchs as identified by
Mencius
Mencius (孟子, ''Mèngzǐ'', ; ) was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage () to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself. He was part of Confucius's fourth generation of disciples, inheriting ...
. ''Ming yun'' is thus perceived as being both fixed, flexible, and open-ended.
[Lizhu, Na. 2013. p. 21]
See also
* ''
Bao ying
''Bàoyìng'' ( zh, c=報應) is a concept of cosmic and moral reciprocity in the Chinese folk religion. It implies that people dwell in a moral universe, a universe that is kept ordained by mores, good actions, thus moral retribution is in fac ...
''
* ''
Yuanfen''
* ''
Wu''
References
Sources
* Fan Lizhu, Chen Na.
The Revival of Indigenous Religion in China'.
Fudan University, 2013.{{China-reli-stub
Concepts in Chinese folk religion
Confucianism