谶纬的发端上溯至战国时的邹衍 ,至秦时开始影响政治。秦时的谶纬是被统治阶级反抗皇权的工具 ,汉时则成了统治阶级自己的理论。两汉诸帝不仅把谶纬作为自己掌权的合法依据 ,而且还根据谶纬制定王朝的礼乐刑罚。由于黄巾起义把谶纬当作反抗皇权的旗帜 ,故东汉之后谶纬在统治阶级内部逐渐消失 The beginning of the latitude Wei Zou Yan dating back to the Warring States Period, Qin began to influence politics. The qianwei in Qin Dynasty was a tool used by the ruling class to resist the imperial power and in the Han Dynasty it became its own theory. The two Han emperor not only to Wei as their own legal basis for power, but also according to the latitude Wei dynasty rituals and penalties. Since the Yellow Turbans Uprising used the Wei as the banner of imperialism, so the Eastern Han dynasty weft gradually disappear within the ruling class