? Looking closely, I found that the dialogue with Liang Dong and Xu Wenbing in Huangdi Neijing has the same effect. However, to my shame, I only listened to the dialogue several times and didn't study the book Huangdi Neijing in depth.
The Book of Changes says, "God knows his wisdom, but man is only one." To truly understand the mystery of one thing lies in everyone's understanding. Ask yourself, what is my own understanding of Huangdi Neijing?
So at this Qingming time, I will restart reading Huangdi Neijing as an ideological dialogue with my ancestors.
? Before reading a book, I usually read the preface or preface carefully, hoping to understand the author/translator's thoughts. Often the preface condenses the essence of the author's thoughts, or the value orientation of the whole book, which is worth tasting again and again.
? Professor Yao, the translator, mentioned in the preface that modern China people don't know much about our traditional culture and way of thinking, which affects our reading and understanding of ancient works and hinders our spiritual communication with our ancestors. To read the classics of Chinese studies, we must first get rid of the interference of modern thinking and enter the thinking of the ancients in order to understand the original meaning of the classics.
I feel the same way about it. I loved ancient culture most in primary school. I used to be addicted to classical Chinese, but I turned to classical Chinese in middle school. When I'm finished, I will hold modern thinking and doubt whether many traditional classics are scientific. Therefore, before reading the classics, we must first have an empty cup mentality, just like a primary school student looking forward to the new semester-I know nothing, and maybe I can gain more.
I sorted out the three bqs in the preface:
1. What is Huangdi Neijing?
1) Content: Huangdi Neijing is the earliest existing medical literature in China, which comprehensively expounds the basic contents of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, reflects the theoretical principles and academic thoughts of traditional Chinese medicine, and is the ancestor of medicine.
? 3) Compilation time: Warring States to Qin and Han Dynasties or Han Dynasty to Eastern Han Dynasty.
? 4) Title meaning: "Warp" refers to the warp of textiles, as opposed to "weft". When weaving, the warp yarns are arranged first, and then the weft yarns are woven. After the extension of "Jing", it has a fundamental, regular and regular meaning. The title of the book has no deep meaning, but it is arranged in order, just like the book is divided into two volumes.
5) Neijing includes Su Wen and Ling Shu.
Su Wen's meaning and explanation are very inconsistent. Translators of this book tend to explain it this way, "Tai Su, the beginning of quality." Su Wen is about Tai Su. Taiyi, Shu Tai, Shu Tai and Tai Su are the four stages of the universe evolution before the formation of heaven and earth, and Tai Su is the fourth stage, which is the stage in which qi, shape and quality have existed in the process of evolution from scratch but have not yet differentiated into concrete things, that is, heaven and earth are indistinguishable and everything is chaotic.
There are also many interpretations of Lingshu. "The name of Lingshu means that feathers are flowing!" Feather is another name for a Taoist priest. Therefore, the Lingshu was probably renamed by Bing Wang according to the title of "Nine Spirits" in Sui Shu —— Annals of Classics, combined with the names of Taoist classics, such as Yushu, Shenshu and Lingzhou.
2. What is the relationship between Huangdi Neijing and a hundred schools of thought contend?
? In terms of values, Neijing is consistent with the Huang family, which is also the internal source of the name of Huangdi in Neijing. The thinking of "image number" in Zhouyi is the core method of the theoretical system of Neijing. In addition, Confucian concepts such as the doctrine of the mean, neutralization, internal necessity and emphasis on "essence" are also important concepts in Neijing medicine.
The reason why the medical theory of Neijing has such a close relationship with the contention of a hundred schools of thought is that China's ancient scholarship is a unified whole. China's ancient learning is not as obvious as the western modern learning, but there is a universal avenue that runs through all learning. Different scholars are manifestations of the same approach. In addition, judging from China's ancient worldview, the ancients regarded the whole universe, including people, as a popular development process of a big life, and all knowledge revealed the popularity of this big life. The relationship between medicine and other academics is not external, but internal unity, both of which are knowledge about life.
3. Basic philosophical concepts and propositions contained in Neijing:
? 1) the view of correspondence between man and nature. The problem of heaven and man is the basic problem of China's ancient philosophy. The basic connotation of the correspondence between heaven and man is that man is born of the qi of heaven and earth, and his life activities depend on the changing law of heaven and earth, and he should also actively adapt to the changing law of heaven and earth.
? 2) Everything in the world melts at one breath. The ancients in China believed that Qi was the origin of the universe and life. Zhuangzi's "Journey to the North" said: "People are born together, live together, and die when they are scattered. ..... so the world is in one ear. " In the universe picture of Qi's view of nature, the whole universe is a big life and a large-scale popular process driven by Qi.
3) Yin-Yang and Five Elements are the basic framework for TCM to understand the world. The whole world is a dynamic unified system with Qi as its internal essence and Yin-Yang and Five Elements as its external forms. Everything is connected into a unified whole through yin and yang and five elements. Syndrome differentiation of Yin and Yang zang-fu organs has become the basic thinking mode of TCM in understanding diseases.
4) Unity of form and spirit, emphasizing spirit over form, are the basic characteristics that distinguish TCM from Western medicine. God is the ultimate expression of the function of Qi, and God is also Qi in essence. Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are complementary medical systems and cannot replace each other.
5) Harmony between Yin and Yang is the highest value pursuit of TCM. Pursuing the harmony of all things in the universe is the eternal value of the Chinese nation. Neijing holds that "the secret of Yin and Yang" is the premise of life. The secret of Yin and Yang refers to the dynamic balance of Yin and Yang. Ping and Secret in Yin Pingyang Secret have the same meaning, balance. "Yin Ping" refers to the smoothness of Yin Qi, and "Yang Secret" refers to the persistence of yang spirit, which is the relative balance maintained by the mutual adjustment of yin and yang.
6) Comparing numbers with images is the basic thinking method of TCM. The ancients believed that everything was generated by the Qi of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and things generated by the same Qi had the same or similar functions and images, and they had special affinity. It was on this basis that the ancients classified and divided things into cognitive basis.
? Luck is to use the number of heaven and earth as a program to recognize the world. Luck thinking enables Neijing to understand the complex world and human physiological and pathological phenomena with a simple framework; The thinking of taking images enables Neijing to classify things according to the principle of combining images and to understand the interaction and connection between things.
? The translator also mentioned that when the ancients talked about learning, they should know how to trace the source, not only what it is, but also why, so as to link learning, which is true learning and living learning; Otherwise, knowing a few words and remembering one or two nouns is really not good for your body, mind and study except to show off your ability.
? I'm impressed.