This is the final portion of my highly speculative, 3 parts PowerPoint based posting on the similarities between Chinese New Year and Passover. I am sorry that I did not write a longer article to describe the logic behind the connections that I have made between the two events. But, I will write a little bit more for this final part.
If my reading does not fail me, the study on the origins of Chinese people and how they suddenly appear in China with their high culture and technology, that is significantly different from their surrounding communities, is still subjective and debatable. Some said they migrated from elsewhere and some say they evolved from indigenous cultures. Perhaps, nowadays, it is widely accepted that the Chinese (from Xia dynasty) have evolved from the Yangshao and Lungshan culture which is consider indigenous. Nevertheless, they are those who would disagree.
What I am interested in, in this final posting of the subject, is a few cultural and historical artifacts that could point to a connection between the ancient Chinese civilization with the ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean.
Could it be that the Chinese culture has kept an ancient knowledge that closely links them to the civilizations in the Mediterranean and Middle East? My own interest started with the story of Nian and it's similarities with Passover (both are incidentally celebrated as the beginning of a new year). It has led me down the road of connecting the origins of ancient Chinese with what the Bible has recorded about the Passover and Exodus. I will end with a highly speculative verse that may show a possible connection.
Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!" Numbers 11:4-6
If my reading does not fail me, the study on the origins of Chinese people and how they suddenly appear in China with their high culture and technology, that is significantly different from their surrounding communities, is still subjective and debatable. Some said they migrated from elsewhere and some say they evolved from indigenous cultures. Perhaps, nowadays, it is widely accepted that the Chinese (from Xia dynasty) have evolved from the Yangshao and Lungshan culture which is consider indigenous. Nevertheless, they are those who would disagree.
What I am interested in, in this final posting of the subject, is a few cultural and historical artifacts that could point to a connection between the ancient Chinese civilization with the ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean.
- The identification of Fuxi and Nuwa with Isis and Serapis
- The existence of Chinese pyramids with a formation resembling pyramids at Sakara
- The story of Nuwa mending the sky with colourful stones and Noah's rainbow
- The story of Pan Gu creating the world
- The story of Fuxi marrying her sister Nuwa
- Mummies, religious vessels and burial grounds etc. (even the design of chinese temples)
Could it be that the Chinese culture has kept an ancient knowledge that closely links them to the civilizations in the Mediterranean and Middle East? My own interest started with the story of Nian and it's similarities with Passover (both are incidentally celebrated as the beginning of a new year). It has led me down the road of connecting the origins of ancient Chinese with what the Bible has recorded about the Passover and Exodus. I will end with a highly speculative verse that may show a possible connection.
Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!" Numbers 11:4-6
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