In ancient times, the living conditions and living environment of human beings were bad, and daily life directly affected people's health and longevity.
The way of eating and drinking
"Food is the most important thing for people", and diet is the basis of human survival and reproduction. Only on this basis can mankind create a great civilization. Therefore; The first historical activity of mankind was to find food. Gossip's record of human diet can be expounded from the following aspects:
(1) food hygiene. There is a record of food poisoning in Biting Melon: "Biting bacon is poisonous." "Well Gua" discusses the problem of drinking water, and puts forward the hygienic requirements of drinking water such as "no food in well mud" and "no food in well pit". Well hexagrams also mentioned that "cold spring food is also right", thinking that spring water is expensive and clean, so well hexagrams also thought that "cold spring food".
(2) chew slowly. Chewing hexagrams and changing hexagrams in eight diagrams all advocate chewing, which is considered to be the way to raise oneself.
(3) diet. "Need divination" is also considered by some scholars as the way to eat and drink. "Need hexagrams and images": "Need, gentlemen eat and be happy." "Yi Gua" emphasizes that "a gentleman should be cautious in speaking and frugal in eating and drinking." Sleeping Melon also points out that you can't be "trapped in wine and food".
(4) Relevant diet records. According to the Book of Changes, Fu's birds and beasts are far from everything, including "dry as a horse, Kun as a cow, shock as a dragon, pheasant as a pheasant, pheasant as a ridge, dog as a root and sheep as a confluence", except for "dragon". Among the other 64 hexagrams, there are some common foods in life, such as dried meat, preserved meat, pheasant paste, soft-shelled turtle, fish, wine, well, cold spring and so on.
live and work in peace and contentment
Humans can only live on food, and shelters are places to ensure their safety and rest. In gossip, they sometimes see something, which is a reflection that people can "live and work in peace and contentment". In ancient times, people called "Tungua": "Pan Huan, Li Juzhen, Hou." Using stone as the courtyard wall can not only keep out wind and rain, but also prevent wild animals, so it is beneficial to "staying in the festival", "building a Hou" and "bigger divination": "East radiation, fierceness" and "East dragon, auspiciousness" illustrate the importance of the house beam, and if the house beam is bent, it will be fierce and pose a threat to life; Moreover, the pillars are towering, and it is auspicious to be able to carry loads. The "original divination" to beautify the house: "Ben Qiu Yuyuan." It's a record of the renovation of the residence. Tourism is to leave the shelter, and ancient tourism is not easy. Therefore, tourism hexagrams put forward the requirements of tourism health care, such as concentrating thoughts, preventing accidents, protecting peers and their own safety.
Clothing beauty
People compare clothes to people's second skin because clothes not only protect the body from trauma. It can also resist the invasion of cold and heat on the human body and beautify the body. When ancient humans bid farewell to the era when branches covered their bodies, the wearing of clothes became more and more important. In the gossip, although there are not many records about clothing, we can find that the ancients paid great attention to the color, shape and decoration of clothing. There is a saying "Huang Shang, Yuanji" in Kun Gua, which not only expresses the color of clothes, but also shows the obedience and collocation of the lower clothes to the upper ones. Trapping hexagrams: "Zhu Fu Fang Lai" and "Kun" are the records of the decoration on the ancient official clothes, which also shows the importance of color. Guimeigua: "Your Majesty is not as beautiful as it is." This is a record of the beauty of sleeves. "Ben Gua": "Ben's toes, leaving the car and being a disciple." It shows that the ancients beautified shoes. The ancients not only beautified costumes, but also paid attention to makeup. This hexagram records the story of ancient men dressing up and marrying women in detail, so I won't comment here.
living environment
Bagua puts people's life in the cosmic environment, and pays attention to the living environment at the same time, because people's life is not only related to natural environmental factors such as astronomy, climate and calendar, but also closely related to geographical environment. When shooting gossip: "Fuxi overlooks the geographical painting of gossip, so the Quartet, Kyushu, birds and animals belong to twelve branches, and all the beauty of the earth is unified in gossip." Gossip also takes photos and determines the location through the geographical environment. Eight diagrams: Kundi, Kanshui, Genshan, Duihue and Holly are all geographical and environmental factors, and their influence on people's lives is mainly manifested in their adaptability. People have different physiological and psychological reactions to it in different environments. For example, "Publishing is for the ground, … for the base, and … for the ground"; "The obstacle is water, the ditch is blasphemy, ... and it is also people's worry, heart disease, earache, bloody blood and redness"; "Leaving is a fire ... and a big belly"; Exchange ze ... for your breath, for destruction. All of the above can be found in Zhouyi Shuo Gua, which is an explanation of gossip, but it inadvertently connects people with their living environment.