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the eight diagrams. It means east. Therefore, Fuhsi is from the East, and he is a Tung-i (Korean). In ancient times, the East meant Tung-i and the West meant the Chinese. Without understanding the I-jing, it is impossible to interpret and understand historical accounts and characters that relate to it. Many Asian millenarian doctrines and movements, including the Tonghak and the Taiping, are related to the I-jing.
Origin of Ancient East Asian Millenarian Tradition
All East Asian history has a common point. Ancient East Asian countries had a supernatural and millenarian dream. Legendary founders of all East Asian countries were based on Heavenly or Divine myth. In East Asia, the emperor or king of each country was bestowed with divine rights by heaven for prosperity and peace of the people and country. In political struggles, the winners reported their history as great, distorted the defeated nation's history, and degraded millenarian belief as shamanistic. Good examples are cases in ancient Asian millenarian history, Tonghak and Taiping millenarianism. It has been known that East Asian millenarian tradition originated in Chinese culture. There are few scholars who recognize that in the 3rd century, the Chinese Han Dynasty distorted East Asian history for purposes of Chinese ethnocentrism, and in the 19th century, Meiji Japan distorted East Asian history under the imperial millenarian ideology for Japanese expansion. in reality, the millenarian myth of legendary Chinese and Japanese founding emperors originated in ancient Korean millenarian history.
The Ancient Founders of China and Japan Were Koreans
Ancient Korean historical records state that ancient Koreans ruled over China and other Asian countries. According to Chinese history, there were three founding emperors. They are (1) Tai-hao Fu-hsi (
), (2) Yan-di Shen-nong (
), and (3) Huang-di Xuan-yuan (
). All of them were Koreans. The five emperors after the founding emperors are (1) Shao-hao Chin-tian (
), (2)