The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of fate in Medieval China, focusing on the Wei-Jing and Southern period. The following chapters examine Confucianist, Daosit, and Buddhist’s concept of fate respectively. In Confucian’s theory of fate, the main focus are two articles by Li Kang and Liu Xiaobiao. These two authors articles reflect after the collapse of the unified Chinese Empire, scholars began to concern about individuals fate instead of collective destiny. From the Li Kang and Liu Xiaobiao’s articles can be seen both of them on the one hand affirmed the existence of life, but in clarifying the fate of the objective restrictions on people, they pay attention to where people can play a moral subjectivity side. In Daoist tradition, Ge Hong purpose a concept of becoming Hsien and methods for achieving immortality. His book Baopuzi provides the most complete and comprehensive account on how to avoid illness, cure disease, and attain immortality. For Buddhist Hui Yuan he preach the original teachings of Buddha about origins of life, and using the law of Karma to explain new concepts of fate from Buddhist perspectives.
