Chinese

In the Urantia Book

Racial influences

• the difference between northern and southern races in China is due to several factors: 79:5.6 79:6.7
• * Northern Chinese assimilated much of the red stock when they lived there
• * Northern Chinese benefited from a considerable influx of Andite blood
• * Southern Chinese absorbed the green race and weakened afterwards with inferior peoples crowded out from India
• Andites brought with them certain of the cultural advances of Mesopotamia, and while their influence upon the religious culture was short-lived, they contributed much to a subsequent spiritual awakening 79:7.4-5

Cultural evolution

• The Chinese of the year 15,000 B.C. they were energetic militarists, they numbered less than 12 million, they spoke a common language and they had built a true nation 79:6.9
• chinese was an apt pupil in the art of warfare; relentless and aggressive 79:5.5
• they early manifested a marked ability to live peaceably with his compatriots; the Chinese were the first to learn that in union there is strength. (64:6.14,16) 79:5.5 79:6.8 79:8.6
• The Chinese early turned to agricultural pursuits, which contributed further to their pacific tendencies (79:8.2,5)
• The primitive Chinese tribes were the first to abandon the chase, establish settled communities, and develop a home life based on agriculture. 64:6.14
• early river settlements of Chinese were disrupted by floods 79:6.4
• By 5000 B.C. the Mesopotamian, Turkestan, and Chinese farmers had begun the raising of animals 81:2.12
• The red and the yellow races are the only human stocks that ever achieved a high degree of civilization apart from the influences of the Andites. 79:5.8
• Chinese early learned to plant seeds and to cultivate crops through observation of the sprouting of seeds accidentally moistened or which had been put in graves as food for the departed. 81:1.6
• It is almost 40,000 years since the first important advances were made in Chinese culture, and though there have been many retrogressions, the civilization of the sons of Han comes the nearest of all to presenting an unbroken picture of continual progression right on down to the times of the twentieth century. 79:8.16
• In more recent times Chinese and the white race have presented the most advanced social development on Urantia. 68:0.3
• For centuries their great civilization has rested upon the laurels of the past, but it is even now reawakening to envision anew the transcendent goals of mortal existence, once again to take up the unremitting struggle for never-ending progress. 79:8.17

Weird mores

• When the Chinese made ready to cast a bell, custom decreed the sacrifice of at least one maiden for the purpose of improving the tone of the bell; the girl chosen was thrown alive into the molten metal. 89:6.4

Achievements

• statehood among the Chinese was delayed by the thoroughness of their conquest of Asia (79:8.1,6)
• The early Chinese and the Greeks treated women better than did most surrounding peoples. 84:5.6
• chinese children require little discipline, are more docile and tractables than other races 84:7.21
• the cumbersome nature of the ideographic writing system placed a numerical limit upon the learned classes despite the early appearance of printing. 66:5.10 79:8.7
• The mechanical and religious developments of the white races have been of a high order, but they have never excelled the Chinese in family loyalty, group ethics, or personal morality. (79:8.9,16) 84:7.1

Religious beliefs

• Chinese traveled far from the influences of the spiritual headquarters of the world and drifted into great darkness following the Caligastia apostasy; but there occurred one brilliant age among this people when Singlangton, about 100,000 years ago, assumed the leadership of these tribes and proclaimed the worship of the “One Truth. 45:4.8 64:6.15
• the basis of their beliefs is ancestor worship 68:4.3 94:5.7
• During the spiritually decadent centuries the religion of the yellow race degenerated into a pitiful theology wherein swarmed devils, dragons, and evil spirits, all betokening the returning fears of the unenlightened mortal mind. 94:6.12
• The Chinese worship of the dragon is a survival of the snake cults. 85:3.3
• the Chinese used magic as protection against demons 90:2.8
• they were the first people to achieve freedom from abject fear of gods 94:5.7
• The Chinese and Mesopotamians long regarded disease as the result of the action of evil demons 90:3.8
• The Chinese and Egyptians once believed that soul and body remained together. 86:4.8
• The Chinese, however, recognized two aspects of a human being, the yang and the yin, the soul and the spirit. 111:0.4

Jesus contact with Chinese

• During his voyages Jesus had many visits with a Chinese merchant called Chang 133:4.9

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• “Foundation” human sacrifice 89:6.4 — Jos 6:26.
• One Truth 45:4.8 — Jn 14:6.
• One God 45:4.8 — 2 Ki 19:19; 1 Ch 17:20; Neh 9:6; Ps 86:10; Sir 36:5; Is 37:16; Is 44:6,8; Is 45:5-6,21; Dt 4:35,39; Dt 6:4; Mk 12:29,32; Jn 17:3; Ro 3:30; 1 Co 8:4-6; Ga 3:20; Eph 4:6; 1 Ti 2:5; Jm 2:19; 1 Sam 2:2; 2 Sam 7:22.
• Serpent worship 85:3.3 — Ex 4:2-4; Ex 7:9-12; 2 Ki 18:4; Nm 21:8-9; Nm Da 14:23 (Bel 1:23); Jn 3:14.
• Arrows of the Almighty 90:3.8 — Job 6:4; Ps 38:1-2.
• Sheol 86:4.8 — Lk 16:17-26.
• Worship only God 133:4.9 — Ex 20:3; Dt 5:7; Mt 4:10. *Many mansions*: Jn 14:2.

Where it appears

Chinese is linked in 26 paragraphs of the text.

See also

• China
• yellow race

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