Shaobing Song
| Shaobing Song | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 燒餅歌 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 烧饼歌 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | shaobing song | ||||||||||
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The “Shaobing Song” or the “Pancake Poem” is a poem purported to be written by Liu Bowen during the Ming dynasty. He supposedly presented the poem to the Hongwu Emperor.[1]
Prophecy
The poem is named after the Chinese pastry shaobing. It is written in cryptic form and is difficult to understand. Some believe that certain lines contain references to the future of China at the time including:
- 1449 Mongol invasion
- Rise of Zheng He
- Founding of the Qing dynasty
- First Opium War
- First Sino-Japanese War
- 1911 founding of Republic of China[1]
Most of the predictions since 1911 have been vague and inaccurate. This led some experts to believe the work is a hoax of recent production, designed to reassure people that all would be well when there was much unrest as a consequence of the Japanese invasion and the rise of communism.[1]
See also
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Chinese classic texts
- Tui bui tu, another prophetic text
- Tung shing
- Nostradamus
References
- ^ a b c Windridge, Charles. [1999] (2003) Tong Sing The Chinese Book of Wisdom. Kyle Cathie Limited. ISBN 0-7607-4535-8. pg 124-125.