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Lunheng | ||
*23. Chap. IV. Lei-hsü [OMITTED] (On Thunder and Lightning).
Thunder is not the expression of Heaven's anger. As a spirit
it could not give a sound, nor could it kill a man with its
breath. It does not laugh either. Very often the innocent are
struck by lightning, and monsters like the Empress Lü Hou are
spared. The pictorial representations of thunder as united drums,
or as the thunderer Lei Kung, are misleading. Thunder is fire or
hot air, the solar fluid Yang exploding in its conflict with the Yin
fluid, lightning being the shooting forth of the air. Five arguments
are given, why thunder must be fire.
Lunheng | ||