OK. This is really really cool. I looked up videos and pages explaining it away but thus far I haven’t seen anything debunking this. I will keep looking but I find this super intriguing.
Is it possible that in ancient China, at the moments of Jesus’ Crucifixion and Resurrection, the Emperor Guangwu was given supernatural signs, recorded them and interpreted them in the Royal Annals which still exist today?
“Yin and Yang have mistakenly switched, and the sun and moon were eclipsed. The sins of all the people are now on one man. Pardon is proclaimed to all under heaven.” History of Latter Han Dynasty, Volume 1, Chronicles of Emperor Guang Wu, 7th year.
“In the day of Gui Hai, the last day of the month, there was a solar eclipse. [The emperor] avoided the Throne Room, suspended all military activities and did not handle official business for five days.” History of Latter Han Dynasty, Vol. 1, Chronicles of Emperor Guang Wu, 7th year”.
Another historical record says:
“Eclipse on the day of Gui Hai, Man from Heaven died”.
May 11, 2022 at 4:36 pm
Interesting.
Of course we also have Africanus quoting the first century pagan authors Thallus and Phlegon, who record what they called a solar eclipse that happened during a full moon during the reign of Tiberius. They were quite confused by what they’d witnessed, because they must have known that solar eclipses are impossible during a full moon.
Ancient Irish legend also says the miraculous darkness at the moment of Christ’s death was seen in Ireland during the reign of Conchobhar, King of Ulster — but that account these days is dismissed as an invention of medieval Catholic monks. But there’s no reason to think it’s not an authentic tradition.
May 11, 2022 at 7:25 pm
This is very cool. Worth noting that even pagan sibyls were reported to have given prophecies of the coming of Christ…
The Erythræan Sibyl’s prophecy of the Christ
https://gloriaromanorum.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-oration-of-constantine-explaining.html
May 12, 2022 at 8:01 am
Perfect!!! More rabbit holes for me to jump into. Thanks
May 12, 2022 at 3:17 pm
So very cool! God let the entire world know!
May 15, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Christians really desperate to look for validation in Chinese history.
No, its a bogus explanation for Chinese history, told for Christians who has no understanding of Chinese history nor literature.
Educate yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/uo5zh9/comment/i8ip9cb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
May 23, 2022 at 1:20 pm
I came here from that thread precisely because there was no debunking, and the original source was a chinese man who seems convinced the ancient chinese religion was monotheistic. That thread was unhelpful because it was just a guy who said that he cant read chinese saying I can kind of read chinese and it looks like chinese alright, I hope someone else can read it
September 30, 2024 at 11:43 pm
This is actually a fulfillment of Book of Mormon prophesy. The Book of Mormon prophesied that many kings of the isles of the sea would see signs in the sky and proclaim that the God of nature suffers. Nowhere does the Bible proclaim that many of the Kings around the world would see signs and prophesy of Christ’s death. Only the Book of Mormon says this. The Book of Mormon reads:
“And the God of our fathers, who were led out of Egypt, out of bondage, and also were preserved in the wilderness by him, yea, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, yieldeth himself, according to the words of the angel, as a man, into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up, according to the words of Zenock, and to be crucified, according to the words of Neum, and to be buried in a sepulchre, according to the words of Zenos, which he spake concerning the three days of darkness, which should be a sign given of his death unto those who should inhabit the isles of the sea, more especially given unto those who are of the house of Israel. For thus spake the prophet: The Lord God surely shall visit all the house of Israel at that day, some with his voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation, and others with the thunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of darkness, and by the opening of the earth, and by mountains which shall be carried up. And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim: The God of nature suffers.” – 1st Nephi 19:10-12
The same thing actually happened with King Connor in Ireland. He saw the signs and likewise proclaimed that God of nature suffers.
May 24, 2023 at 12:02 am
https://www.chinasona.org/Thiaoouba/Jesus.html
this is from an Actual Chinese source, not just smart guys speculations who don’t even identify with the culture 👌
May 15, 2022 at 2:27 pm
Here are people giving other translations, either way appears the eclipse part stands true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/uo5zh9/christian_scholars_say_that_there_is_a_record_of/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
August 10, 2023 at 1:04 pm
Hi!
I read Chinese, and just tracked down the original text. It has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus.
Comments about the translation:
The first part ”Yin and Yang have mistakenly switched, and the sun and moon were eclipsed.” is accurate. They observed an eclipse.
The next part: “The sins of all the people are now on one man. Pardon is proclaimed to all under heaven.” is misleading. “The sins” here should say “the crimes”, as it means the bad things people did that break the law, not a fundamental sin you born with. The “now on one man” here means the emperor himself. Then “pardon is proclaimed” means that “therefore, I am issuing pardon to all”.
“All under heaven” or “天下” in Chinese doesn’t mean there’s a Christian heaven. It only means “everywhere”.
Generally you ain’t going to find anything about Jesus in ancient Chinese literature. The emperors think they themselves are basically Jesus (god’s son or the dragon’s son).
Hope this helps!
January 4, 2024 at 10:20 am
I can translate everything by the European translator, so non-native languages, including the Eastern ones, hold no secrets for me.
I have known for years that there is a Chinese explanation about the solar eclipse around Jesus dying on the cross and that it lasted 3 hours, but what I didn’t know was that there was a full moon with the Chinese while all this was happening, hence the description that there was a confusion between the Yin and Yang together!
To me this is THE proof that there is another player in the whole thing, another planet that can cause this and that is the home planet of the Father of Jesus himself, Planet X so to speak or Nibiru.
This is consistent with the year 10,800 BCE and that 3* YAR (3,600 years) is the total number that this catastrophe happened and that the gravity of Nibiru again played a role in the whole.
In short, Nibiru plays a much bigger role than many people think, the planet of our Gods (plural).
January 4, 2024 at 12:10 pm
They already changed it. I don’t know how. I used to look at this, and it’s been slightly altered every so often. You can catch them in the act, sometimes, altering history and stuff. It did say that at one time. It doesn’t anymore.
January 25, 2024 at 11:32 am
God loves all men ,pagan or not, and in their way let them know if Jesus
sacrifice.
September 30, 2024 at 11:50 pm
Absolutely right!
September 30, 2024 at 11:50 pm
This is actually a fulfillment of Book of Mormon prophesy. The Book of Mormon prophesied that many kings of the isles of the sea would see signs in the sky and proclaim that the God of nature suffers. Nowhere does the Bible proclaim that many of the Kings around the world would see signs and prophesy of Christ’s death. Only the Book of Mormon says this. The Book of Mormon reads:
“And the God of our fathers, who were led out of Egypt, out of bondage, and also were preserved in the wilderness by him, yea, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, yieldeth himself, according to the words of the angel, as a man, into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up, according to the words of Zenock, and to be crucified, according to the words of Neum, and to be buried in a sepulchre, according to the words of Zenos, which he spake concerning the three days of darkness, which should be a sign given of his death unto those who should inhabit the isles of the sea, more especially given unto those who are of the house of Israel. For thus spake the prophet: The Lord God surely shall visit all the house of Israel at that day, some with his voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation, and others with the thunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of darkness, and by the opening of the earth, and by mountains which shall be carried up. And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim: The God of nature suffers.” – 1st Nephi 19:10-12
The same thing actually happened with King Connor in Ireland. He saw the signs and likewise proclaimed that God of nature suffers.
September 30, 2024 at 11:52 pm
read this article from an Irish convert to Christianity.
https://latterdaysaintmag.com/the-irish-legend-that-led-me-to-the-gospel/