Dong Zhongshu
Interactions Between Heaven and Mankind is said to originate from "The Great Plan [of Jizi]", the 24th Scroll of the "Book of Documents". Dong Zhongshu based his doctrines on this theoretical framework, believing that heaven (天) had its own consciousness and controlled everything through the “100 Lords of Heaven” with all natural laws and variations in human affairs decided by them. Moreover, he believed that human physiological structure, thought, emotions and moral character are all modelled according to heaven’s will and thus that mankind is the incarnation of heaven.