During the Zhou period there were several beliefs. The Mandate of Heaven, and the Yin and Yang.
The Mandate of Heaven was the gift of authority. If you were the son of heaven you had to be wise, hardworking, be good on the battle field, and perform special rituals to honor all spirits. If the son of heaven failed to do so the spirits would give natural disasters.
The Zhou believed in the Yin and Yang, the two great forces of nature. The symbol also stands for everything and how things work. The white side represents yang and the black represents yang. The Book of Changes focuses on the yin and yang. The other most important ritual was to worship the sun and the stars.
This is a good start, but feels kind of unfocused and rambling. Did the Zhou follow Daoism? Confucianism? Also, Mandate of Heaven and Yin and Yang should be capitalized. Is there any more info you can add?
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