section_path: Core concepts of theology and cosmology
section_name: Core concepts of theology and cosmology
paragraph_text: Core concepts of theology and cosmology
  
  Fan and Chen summarise four spiritual, cosmological, and moral concepts: Tian (Chinese: 天), Heaven, the source of moral meaning; qi (Chinese: 氣), the breath or substance of which all things are made; the practice of jingzu (Chinese: 敬祖), the veneration of ancestors; bao ying (Chinese: 報應), moral reciprocity.