And as well as the Mandate of Heaven, they bequeathed one other enduring concept to China.

除天命之外，周朝还留下了另一个影响深远的概念。

The Mandate of Heaven is remarkably flexible as an explanation of historical causation.

天命作为对历史因果关系的解释非常灵活。

So on this view, it followed that the defeated Shang must have lost the Mandate of Heaven, which had passed to the virtuous, victorious Zhou.

因此，战败的商朝必定是失去了上天的庇佑，神明转而庇佑德行高尚的周。

Which leads us to the Mandate of Heaven.

这将我们引向天命。

The circularity actually reminds me of the Mandate of Heaven.

循环实际上让我想起了天命。

But first, let’s see an example of the Mandate of Heaven in action.

但首先，让我们看一个天命在行动中的例子。

Moreover, numerous words and terms like han for the Han ethnicity and the tian in tianming (the Mandate of Heaven) all trace their origins to mythology.

而且，许多词语和术语，如“汉”族的“汉”和“天命”中的“天”，都可以追溯到神话。

Thus, according to the ancient Chinese version of history, Emperor Wen, by behaving as a wise Confucian, maintains the Mandate of Heaven.

因此，根据中国古代的历史版本，文帝以睿智的儒家行事， 维护天命。

So the concept of the Mandate of Heaven dates from the Zhou Dynasty, and current historians think that they created it to get rid of the Shang.

所以天命的概念可以追溯到周代，现在的历史学家认为他们创造它是为了摆脱商。

Because the scholars can tell you that one of the best ways to learn how to be a good emperor, and thereby maintain the Mandate of Heaven, is to read the Confucian Classics, which were written by scholars.

因为学者们可以告诉你， 学习如何成为一个好皇帝， 从而维护天命的最好方法之一就是阅读儒家经典，这是由学者们撰写的。