L. S. Vasiliev. Ethics and ritual in traditional China (№ 451618)

The sociocultural genotype, which underlies the mechanism of reproduction of civilization, which guaranteed its adaptive and transformative power, its regenerative functions that brilliantly manifested themselves at the right time, began to form at the beginning of the first millennium BC. e. The concept of heavenly predestination that arose at that time expressed the principle of ethical determination in the management of people (the right to own the Celestial Empire was taken away from the vicious ruler and handed over to the owner of the highest virtue).