Figurism
![According to the Figurists, Noah's son Shem (here with Ham and Japheth) would have been to the Far East and would have brought with him the knowledge of Adam.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Shem,_Ham_and_Japheth2510.jpg")
![According to Bouvet, Fu Xi was really Enoch, the biblical patriarch.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Anonymous-Fuxi_and_Nüwa2510.jpg")
![Geographic identifications of Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD; Japheth's sons shown in red, Ham's sons in blue, Shem's sons in green.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Josephustable32510.jpg")
Figurism was an intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.