Zai-yi-si-xiang (disaster thought)

Japanese: 災異思想 - さいいしそう（英語表記）Zai-yi-si-xiang

A Chinese idea that nature brings about disasters and other abnormal events in response to the good or bad actions of humans. The Western Han scholar Dong Zhongshu provided a theoretical basis for this idea by stating that natural disasters are heaven's punishment for the tyranny and arbitrary actions of the monarch, and this idea became widespread throughout the Han dynasty. However, in the Later Han dynasty, the causal relationship between natural disasters and human affairs was reversed, and this developed into the theory of divination, which predicts human affairs from natural abnormalities. (→ Theory of the correlation between heaven and man)

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Japanese:

人間の行為の善悪に応じて，自然が災害や異変をもたらすという中国の思想。前漢の学者董仲舒が，自然界の災異を，君主の横暴，専断に対する天の譴告 (けんこく) であるとして，この思想に理論的根拠を与えてから，この思想は漢代を通じて広く流行した。ただし，後漢になると自然の災異と人事との因果関係が逆になり，自然の異変から人事を予言する讖緯 (しんい) 説に展開していった。 (→天人相関説 ) 　

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