There has been a lot of talk about the French astrologer Nostradamus recently as his predictions seem to keep coming true. He predicted epidemics, WWII, and even the crazy heat waves we’ve been experiencing in 2023. But have you ever heard of Liu Bowen? According to news18, Bowen was a Taoist master, an intellectual and an honourable prime minister in his day. Not to mention a prophet.
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Bowen is known as the 'Chinese Nostradamus', and his prophecies reportedly date back to the Ming dynasty period. China is known for its obsession with literature and drama during this time. And this Liu Bowen prediction combines those two things in a poem that predicts the future.
The prophetic poem
The poem is called The Ten Worries and, according to Live Mint, it reveals when we will finally see the end of the coronavirus pandemic. This could give us some hope to hold on to as Covid cases rise and new variants continue to pop up all over the world.
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The end of Covid?
Every Chinese year is represented by a different animal. The Ten Worries details a terrible disaster for the years of the Rat and Pig. You’ve probably guessed it: these animals represent 2019 and 2020.
That was when Covid hit, masks became a thing, schools were closed, people were hospitalised and many lost loved ones without getting a chance to say goodbye. We reckon it’s fair to call that a terrible disaster.
In the poem, there is a passage that delivers good news:
All will pass in the Dragon and Snake years.
This indicates that we will finally see the end of the coronavirus pandemic, after it has continued dragging its heels for a few more years, in 2024 and 2025.
How accurate is this Chinese Nostradamus?
Some critics claim it wasn’t Bowen who wrote this poem, Live Mint reports. There are rumours it was penned by an Emperor who used it as a political tool to explain away the disasters that happened under his rule. To give the document legitimacy, he claimed it had been written by Bowen.
But this isn’t the only poem Bowen wrote. Some of his most well-known works predicted events that did indeed come true, namely, the fall of the Ming dynasty and the rise of the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty in China; the Opium Wars, fought between Britain and China; and the foundation of the Republic of China in 1912. It seems to us that Bowen is due a prediction coming true then - could this be it? Only time will tell.
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Sources used:
news18: Did an Ancient Chinese Poem 'Predict' When Covid-19 Pandemic May End?
Live Mint: Ancient poem, written by Chinese Nostradamus Liu Bowen, predicts when COVID-19 pandelic will end