And because Confucianism was the official creed of the Han dynasty, many Confucianist scholars began actively searching through the Confucian classics for passages containing clues to the future, or even began to write prophecies themselves.
而由於儒學為漢朝國學，因此許多儒生們便積極從儒學經典中尋找預知未來蛛絲馬跡的詞句，甚至動手編造讖詞。