 The views of the Taiping jing are the first important example of Chinese millenarianism, which would become a further major theme in the Daoist tradition from the 2nd until at least the 7th centuries (Mollier 2008b). Amid the social tumults and the natural calamities that marked the last part of the Han rule, expectations and prophecies of a forthcoming messiah—often predicted to be surnamed Li—grew during the 2nd century of our era (Seidel 1969–70 and 1983b).