The gossip, hanging also. Is a phenomenon hanging in front of our eyes, so it is called trigrams.
"I Ching" said the trigrams, is the phenomenon of the universe, is the phenomenon of our eyes can see, the universe **** there are eight basic phenomena, and the universe, everything, everything, everything, are based on the eight phenomena and change, which is the origin of the law of gossip.
Able to observe the phenomena of the universe, will be summarized into eight categories, drawn into the gossip, this is not superhuman wisdom? Therefore, Bagua is the study of wisdom. We see Kong Ming appearing in a Peking opera wearing a yin-yang bagua robe, which is an illustration of the high degree of wisdom, which is represented by Bagua.
Drawing trigrams and lines
Gua is both the phenomenon of the universe, want to record this image should be painted, so the trigrams are painted, not written.
Gua is an abstract representation, can also be said to be the symbol of the pattern, gossip is also a logical symbol.
The trigrams are composed of "lines".
What is called "lines"? A straight line for a line, known as the "yang lines", a straight line in the middle of the separation is also a line, known as the "yin lines".
The hexagrams are composed of "yin lines" and "yang lines".
Let's look at the character "爻", which is made up of two diagonal crosses.
According to geophysical explanations, the Earth's magnetic field and latitude and longitude are oblique lines, these two oblique lines also represents a form of the universe, all things are interlaced.
And these two interlaced, just become two crosses, Yao word is also the representative of the two crosses.
Whether our ancestor, Fu Xi, really drew the trigrams in this way may still be questionable, but the origin of the Chinese writing system started with the hieroglyphs, that is to say, the phenomenon of drawing, as if drawing the trigrams.
How to draw trigrams
Writing is mostly from the top down, but drawing trigrams is from the bottom up, that is, drawing trigrams is from the inside out a line by line to draw. This is a basic knowledge of the drawing of trigrams.
While it is possible to draw hexagrams from the top down, from the outside in, the initial method of drawing hexagrams is from the inside out, from the bottom up, which has its own important reasoning.
We live on the Earth, and the function of life on Earth is generated from the center of the Earth outward.
In the case of a human being, the individual's ability to act is also from the inside out.
This is the basic idea of the I Ching, which is why the trigrams are drawn from the inside out and from the bottom up.
The following figure is the innate eight trigrams orientation map drawn by Fuxi, but this eight trigrams, before the Tang did not see the circulation of the Tang and Song Dynasty appeared only after. Whether it is drawn by Fuxi, we do not test, not discussed here, now let us look at the significance of the first heavenly eight trigrams.
Leigua--The trigram is a point in a circle, representing the sun.
Kan Gua - the upper and lower peripheries are yin,
the middle one painted yang lines symbolize light, representing the moon.
Gong Gua - broken below the front, representing the wind.
Zhen Gua - Yang below and broken above,
represents vibration, as thunder.
Gong Gua - a protruding high mountain on the ground, representing mountains.
Dui Gua - the gaping hole above, represents the lake, the ocean.
When you look at these yin lines and yang lines, it may be difficult to understand why they represent the sun, moon, heaven and earth, mountains, wind and thunder. But we have to realize that these hexagrams drawn initially, not as straight and neat as those drawn today, the original drawing, the yin lines may be just two dots, the so-called yang lines, but a piece of the whole only. Its shape is not necessarily neat, and the trigrams are three-dimensional.
So the shape of the hexagrams is just a circle with a black dot in the center, which is used to represent the sun. The other trigrams, too, evolved in the same way.
Phenomena Represented by the Eight Trigrams
Looking at the Eight Trigrams of the Ancestors, we clearly understand that the Eight Trigrams have drawn down the phenomena of the entire universe.
The eight phenomena of this universe are Heaven, Earth, Sun, Moon, Wind, Thunder, Mountain and Ze.
May I ask, what else could there be besides these eight phenomena that make up the cosmic nature? The summarization of the eight trigrams is really great.
Confucius said on the I Ching's "Saying the Trigrams,"
"Heaven and earth are positioned," and when you look in any direction, it's all heaven.
"Thunder and wind are thinned out", the friction of the atmosphere is sent out as thunder and lightning, and the vibration of the thunder and lightning becomes air currents.
"Shan Ze Tong Qi", this reasoning and the application of acupuncture, is exactly the same, this point is left to say later.
"Water and fire do not shoot", more fire is water dry, more water is fire extinguished, it is extremely difficult to achieve equilibrium.
As for the eight trigrams represent the body parts are as follows, this is the concept of the Dan Dao school:
Qian-head 1
Kun-abdomen 8
Leaving the eyes 3
Kan-ears 6
Zhen-Dantian (life energy) 4
Xun-Nose 5
Gong-Back 7
Dui-Mouth 2
The Bagua "Counting "Number"
We really find it interesting when we see (Figure 3) the numbers on the Bagua; 1, 2, 3, 4 are rotated to the left, 5, 6, 7, 8 are rotated to the right.
This is the basic principle of the I Ching: "The Way of Heaven rotates to the left and the Way of Earth rotates to the right."
We look at these numbers, the opposite side of the sum become nine, so although there is no nine in the eight trigrams of the first day, but nine really exists in them, known as the nine in which carry on!
The Western calculus is said to have been inspired by the Idea and invented.
But the I Ching "number" concept, but that there is only one number in heaven and earth, that is, "one", which is the I Ching concept of number theory, this so-called number theory, is not necessarily today's mathematical significance, we must not be confused.
This "one", if you add one is equal to two, then add one is equal to three, the highest is nine, then add one is back to one.
This way of thinking is the logic of induction, which is quite different from the logic of Western analysis.
In these numbers, one, three, five, seven, nine, to nine is the highest number, nine represents the most Yang, Yang can be up to the number of nine as the apex. Two, four, six, eight, ten is the yin number, six is in the middle and represents the most yin.
The Eight Trigrams of the Heavenly Creatures, Climate and Health Care
Tui is the zephyr, which is southeast on the Eight Trigrams, and it can be said that there is more water in the southeast, and in terms of the present time, Taiwan is in the position of the Eight Trigrams of the Heavenly Creatures, Tui Gua, which is exactly in the place of the ocean.
The Xun Gua is southwest, Xun is the wind, then southwest is a windy area. Yunnan Xiaguan's wind is the biggest, trucks passing by, you can turn off the gas, let the wind blowing and go, the wind can be imagined. Some people say: "This is the so-called Xun for the wind also.
The different climates and geographic environments in different parts of the world have resulted in deviations in medical treatment. For example, in the north, there are a lot of warm diseases, so the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" can only be applied to the south; Taiwan is an oceanic subtropical climate, the use of medicine is completely different from the mainland. Therefore, it would be absolutely incorrect to apply the same medicine, the same method, to all parts of the world, ignoring the factor of climate.
Talking about this, I recalled an incident twenty years ago, a friend suffered from a yellow swollen body, treated by another Chinese medicine friend, in his prescription, the use of ephedra six money, at that time, I was shocked, because in the mainland with ephedra is very cautious, absolutely not dare to use such a large number of. After this patient had taken one or two doses of the medicine and had not seen any results, this Chinese medicine practitioner friend increased the ephedra to one or two. At that time, I really can not help but ask him, he explained that the quality of Taiwan's medicines are not good, the composition of the problem, coupled with climate factors, one or two is equal to the mainland's two money, I do not know that according to his prescription to take soon after the disease is well, thus proving that Chinese medicine attaches the greatest importance to the climate.
The Taoist concept of mankind
We said earlier that the gossip represents the eight phenomena in the universe, we must be skeptical, we are the spirit of mankind, how not included ah!
On this point, the Taoist concept is the most interesting, they believe that the Earth is a living thing, and we, human beings, are nothing more than a parasite on the Earth.
Saying parasite is better, in fact, the Taoists call human beings "toms shoes outlet", that is, the naked insect, born naked naked insect face has been.
Can we say that the Taoist metaphor is nonsense? Try looking at the population problem on Earth! The population is increasing, and according to Taoist reasoning, the population will continue to increase, just like an apple with a worm inside, and once the worm is born, it will grow more and more until the apple is completely eaten up, and then the worm will be finished.
Since the unfortunate growth of toms shoes for men on Earth, they have continued to develop the so-called science. Mining, drilling for oil under the sea, material civilization is more and more developed and destructive, until we toms shoes for sale destroy the earth.
The Taoist study of the universe
When the astronauts landed on the moon, an American friend said that the sovereignty of the moon belongs to the U.S., but I told a joke that the sovereignty of the moon belongs to China because China's "Chang'e," which has been running to the moon for thousands of years. Although this is a joke, but it is really a bit of real meaning, because our Taoism, has long begun to study the moon and the sun. There was already a book in the Taoist Collection, the Sun-Moon Phosphorus Scripture, which envisioned landing on the moon and the sun.
In the Taoist literature "Dao Zang", in addition to the study of the moon, there is an extremely complex map, called the "Five Mountains True Shape Map", is centered on China, drawing the underground of the five mountains, that are all connected by underground tunnels, the Taoist legend, by the Shaanxi Province, under the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor began to a hole in the ground, along the tunnel in the hole, three months after the walk out of the is Nanjing.
The Taoist book also categorizes mainland China like internal organs, and the earth's lungs are in Shaanxi Province.
And in the notes of the former, it is recorded that north of the Tianshan Mountain, there is a hole, every time to the Qingming time, this hole will rise out of the atmosphere, said to be the earth's breath, in the out of the air, the desert on the people heard the sound, people and animals have long since fled far away, so as not to be blown by the gas to the small scattered without a side, and wait for twenty-four hours later, and then can be heard to inhale the sound of the air. Ji Xiaolan's notes, once mentioned to this place.
In the desert, the lakes can be affected by the influence of the earth's atmosphere and move themselves, they are like big ice cubes, move to another place and stop. Some of my Mongolian friends, still say they have experienced this scenario themselves.
What are these phenomena? They are the Shan Ze Tong Qi of the I Ching.
Shanze Tongqi and Qi
The Taoists regard heaven and earth as a big universe and the human body on earth as a small universe.
When practicing dan dao, Taoists first focus on the qi of the human body.
The earth is alive in the minds of Taoists, and of course it also has "qi", which is why the principle of "Shan Ze Tong Qi" in the I Ching has been applied by Taoists.
What is qi? In the Taoist doctrine of "qi" is a very subtle problem, in Chinese medicine "qi", is also a mysterious problem.
Burgundy on the eight trigrams is the mountain, if the burgundy is wrong, it is the Dui Gua, the ocean, which means that under the mountain is the sea, and under the sea is the mountain.
The bottom of the mountain is connected to the bottom of the sea.
But why does the mountain and the zephyr pass through the air?
The military science of Taoism is a secret, and now that we are talking about the "mountain and Ze Tong Qi", let's first look at the ancient Taoist military science of the situation of the expedition to the Seychelles.
In the Chinese society thousands of years ago, leading the 10,000 dry army out of the plug, there is no communication equipment and supplies, only the problem of water, is a very big deal.
But the Taoists have a way, in the march, carry a lot of pong ai, to the northwestern plateau or desert area, first dug a pit well about a zhang square, put the pong ai in the pit to burn, then pay attention to the distant surroundings, and soon you will see the smoke from somewhere else, from the place of the gas well, will be able to get water.
This is also the application and proof of "Shan Ze Tong Qi".
But why the use of Bunco?
According to Taoist and Chinese pharmacological research, mugwort is a qi energizer, a point left for further study by botanical experts and scientists.
But it is the same mugwort that is used in acupuncture.