Many Chinese Christians, have hoped and tried to claim the presence of God in the Chinese history. The Chinese reverence towards the metaphysics.
Sometimes to a point it would smear the line between a genuine faith and mere superstition.
I could only conclude that the knowledge of reverence towards the mysterious from His handiworks is to be categorized in what the Reformers would call: The general revelation.
The Chinese culture has suceeded where the Greeks, the Romans, the West, have failed in their religious testimony. One would question, why then was it the Greeks who got the Gospel first and not the Chinese.
In spite of God's sovereignty, I see it is crucial that the authenticity of a religion be determined also by the need of a mediator...viz. the priests. The view of priesthood of the west and the Israelites stood out quite dinstinctively from the Chinese culture. Despite priesthood corruptions, such religions have achieved certain advancement in the relational espect of the Divine, while the Chinese focused on the non-relational praise of the divine.