to be sure, in the late Warring States period, the idea that the five elements are mutually victorious (gram) was put forward, and the order of victory (gram) and birth was fixed, forming a contradictory and unified model between things, which reflected the internal structural relationship of things and the idea of overall grasp. Because in this period, Neijing applied the theory of five elements to medicine, which played an important role in studying and sorting out a large number of clinical experiences accumulated by ancient people and forming a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.
it is recorded in the chapter "Five Emperors": "... there are five elements in the sky, fire, water, Jin Mu and earth, and all things are cultivated in different times. Its god is called the five emperors.
so, what are the five elements and how are they interpreted in history?
The word "five elements" first appeared in Gan Shi and Hong Fan in Shangshu. In Gan Shi, it means that "there are Hu Shi who threaten the five elements, neglect the three righteousness, and use heaven to exterminate his life". In Hong Fan, it is pointed out that "the gun floods, gurgling the five elements of Chen Qi; The emperor was furious, but he didn't kill Hong Fan's nine domains ... Gun died, Yu Naisi prospered, the sky was Xi Yu Hong Fan's nine domains, and Yi Lun was reunited. Five elements: water, fire, wood, gold and earth.
The "five elements" have been clearly defined as water, fire, wood, gold and earth in Hong Fan, and they are considered as the first thing. In Zhou Youwang, the "five elements" have been identified as the five matrixes that make up everything. There are also "five elements" in Zuo Zhuan. Here, he is considered to be the "five elements of the earth", which is closely related to "five materials" and the reproduction of the earth.
The five elements are related to the presentation and continuous operation of nature. As for the so-called "walking", Zheng Xuan noted: "Monkey, you should follow the heaven and move your qi. The "five elements" mentioned in Shangshu have a certain symbolic meaning-"line". What "behavior" refers to is nothing more than a kind of natural "operation", which is a continuous movement according to a rule inherent in its own presentation, and it is a natural act. Therefore, when there is a flood, the emperor will be angry, because it is against the laws of nature, and the destiny fell to Yu because Yu guided the situation to control water, and the water-based nature is basically flow, and the water-based nature is blocked to control it, which will definitely lead to the wrath of nature and therefore will lead to people's resentment. Therefore, Xia Qi attacked Hu Shi and thought that his crusade was ". If the right does not attack the right, you will be disrespectful ... "
To sum up, we can clearly understand that the" five elements "mean material movement; It means the religion of all things. What the ancients said above is actually expressing an idea: if you don't follow the "five elements", you will be rejected by destiny like a husband and a widow! Although a little idealistic, it is not unreasonable. It will be smoother to follow nature and govern according to the situation than to blindly act recklessly.
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Five elements: Jin Mu, fire, water and soil. When the five elements are mentioned, some people dismiss them as superstition, and some people even say that they are five substances, which correspond to the metals, trees, running water, fire and soil of nature. In fact, the five elements are five qi, which are figuratively described as five substances. Of course, it makes sense to turn gas into things, saying that it is five substances, but we can't steal the column, and five gases are fundamental.
From the very beginning, the connotation of one is enough for us to study. Perhaps it is good that many people don't understand it for a long time, and foreigners don't understand it. They are divided into two parts, namely, Yin and Yang, which are two instruments. Yin and Yang are fundamental. Do foreigners understand Yin and Yang, or do we in China say it before we understand it, but we still have a little knowledge. The ancient people in China can study Yin and Yang thoroughly. Yin and Yang alone can explain everything in the world. For example, the seasons corresponding to Yin and Yang are summer and winter. Yin and yang are divided into four images, namely, the sun, shaoyang, Taiyin and Shaoyin, corresponding to 1, 3, 2 and 4. Yang is single and Yin is double. Why? I can't understand it. Sun, shaoyang corresponds to 1, 3, Taiyin, shaoyin corresponds to 2, 4. The sun is 1, the sun is 3, the sun is 2 and the sun is 4, which is also the origin of the order of 1234 numbers. The ancients invented 1234 numbers. The sun corresponds to the sun, and the lunar corresponds to the moon. The sun is pure and firm, and the moon is pure and soft. Shaoyang is wood, the sun is fire, Shaoyin is gold and Taiyin is water, corresponding to four seasons: Chun Mu, fire in summer, autumn gold and winter water. The yang in summer is bright, so the sun is summer fire and Chun Mu is shaoyang. It should be understandable here. It seems very simple to divide things into four images of Yin and Yang now, but this is the knowledge more than 3, years ago. It is even more difficult to connect the four images of Yin and Yang with numbers. Even today's people may not be able to do it. Is the thinking of the ancients jumping?
It should be understood that the anode is negative and the cathode is positive. There are many examples in reality to prove it. How did the ancients get it? Is it that observing nature leads to such a highly generalized principle that is universally applicable? The ancients in China were not simple, so we should have more awe when studying ancient culture, and don't scold the ancients. In fact, many problems now can be solved by the ancients, but we are ignorant, shallow and ugly. 1 is the beginning of yang qi, and 2 is the beginning of yin qi, so just now the sun was 1, and the lunar calendar was 2, which is wrong and needs to be corrected. Therefore, the beginning of the sun turning into yin is 2, the corresponding fire is 2, the beginning of the lunar calendar turning into yang is 1, and the corresponding water is 1. The ancients thought that it was amazing here, so water is 1, fire is 2, wood is 3, and gold is 4.
I don't know who put forward this theorem, but we can find many examples to prove it in real life, so what is the reasoning? The secret of the ancients' great achievements is to draw inferences from others and observe human beings and nature carefully. Nowadays, there are several people who know themselves, know nature, live in big cities and get lost in them. They think they are part of the city. Think of born this way. In traditional Chinese medicine, all diseases are eliminated when qi is in harmony, and all diseases are born when qi is in opposition. Of course, it is a circular argument. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the order of nature is also 1234, and the order of numbers is also in line with the laws of nature, so it is suitable for life, and if it violates the laws of nature, it will die. Therefore, it is very simple to say it, so the ancients said: the road is simple. Jin Mu fire and water, spring, summer, autumn and winter are all qi, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, the flow of qi is also the law of nature, which cannot be violated, or it will be self-destructive. It should be understandable here, too. Shun sheng, from spring to summer, so wood makes a fire, from autumn to winter, so gold makes water, from summer to autumn, is fire making gold? No, from spring to summer, the yang is rising, from autumn to winter, the yin is falling. It should also be understood that the yang dominates the rise and the yin dominates the fall, and nature has also proved it by many examples. Ascending and descending is in line with the theory of Yin and Yang, which means that Yang goes up and Yin goes down. By extension, men and women have intercourse, men go up and women go down, and they are in a natural position. Don't say that they don't even know about men and women, so it's not right for women to go up and down. Alas, formalism has been committed again. Yin and Yang are two gases, not forms, and the flow of qi is unpredictable. Only tracks can be found, and Yin and Yang are as simple as that. There are many forms. People who study this knowledge are Yin and Yang experts, ancient sexual health care experts. Alas, sexual health care experts appeared one or two thousand years ago, and their knowledge is so rich and all-encompassing, but the quality of China people's sexual life is not the best in the world. Did the ancients abandon us or did we abandon them?
from summer to autumn, because there is an anode and yin, a cathode and yang, and yin and yang are transformed, it is impossible for fire to generate gold. Instead, there is a hub for intermediate transformation, which is called earth and earth in the middle. So far, the five elements are complete. From this, it can be seen that the anode is yin and the cathode is yang, which does not mean that it changes, but has a changing process, which is easy to understand, because fire is the sun and becomes yin. Therefore, fire generates soil first, and soil regenerates gold, and it changes from Yang to Yin, and Yang leads to life, while Yin leads to death, Yang leads to advance, and Yin leads to retreat, obeying Yang and opposing Yin. Therefore, from fire to gold, fire generates soil and soil generates gold, while from water to wood, there is only aquatic wood, and there is no transfer of intermediate soil. Fire turns into gold, thanks to the work of the earth, and Yang turns into Yin, which is the reverse. Because of the earth, fire produces soil, and the soil produces gold, which is suitable, and Yin turns into Yang, which is originally suitable, so aquatic wood. This is the principle that the five elements coexist, and the five elements are the same. See for yourself whether these are deceitful. If they are, then all the ancient people in Qian Qian are deceitful. What are they cheating for? And on the basis of these false knowledge, so profound knowledge has been established. The theory of yin and yang and five elements is only the foundation of China's ancient culture, and skyscrapers have been built on the foundation. Is this skyscraper a castle in the air, and the ancients are really so boring? When you talk about the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, you shake your head, so you don't know anything about this skyscraper. These are very basic parts in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine distinguishes the five elements, that is, it distinguishes the five qi and the five qi, which is far more complicated and profound than what is said here. After all, it is a science. Here, I just tell you that the five elements are the five qi, and reasoning the five elements is to identify the flow trajectory of the five qi.
then, when it comes to numbers, the soil naturally corresponds to 5, from which the number develops to five, 12,345. The five elements are divided into yin and yang. Note that there are yin in the yang, yang in the yin, and yin can be divided into yin and yang, so Yang Mu, Yin Mu, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, Yang Jin, Yin Jin, Yang Shui, Yin Shui, Yang Tu, Yin Tu, * * * ten, and the number is 123456789, which is just the sequence number. Here, the five elements are divided into yin and yang, which is the unique thinking of China people. Do foreigners have it? Learning the ancient culture of China can only be learned with the thinking of China people. Is it easy for China people who are born and raised in or foreigners who lack soil moisture in China? In western words, China pays attention to the combination of image thinking, abstract thinking and logical thinking, focusing on image thinking, while the west is a combination of abstract thinking and logical thinking, focusing on abstract thinking. After learning western culture, your thinking ability has improved. 12345 has the connotation of qi, so in order to distinguish it, it is represented by (Yang wood, Yin wood, Yang fire, Yin fire, Yang gold, Yin gold, Yang water, Yin water, Yang soil, Yin soil) and ten qi, so ten stems are ten qi. China has spent so many years on the chronology of dry branches, so don't say that now you know that ten stems are ten qi. Pay attention to the thinking of China people, the soil is in the middle. 12345 is yang, 6789 is yin, 12345 is a number, and 6789 is a number. Only when there is a number can there be a number. This sentence should be understood, which means that 6789 is changed from 12345. 12345 corresponds to fire, water, wood and gold soil, 6789 also corresponds to fire, water, wood and gold soil, 12345 is yang, and 6789 is yin, so Jiayangmu 3, Yiyinmu 8, Bingyanghuo 2, Dingyinhuo 7, Gengyangjin 4, Xinyinjin 9, Nonyangshui 1, Guiyinshui 6, Wuyangtu 5 and Jiyintu . Now it should be clear why there are ten numbers. Why is 123456789 changed from Yin and Yang and five elements? It can be disproved. In Chinese medicine, the flow of ten qi can be identified by adding and subtracting 123456789. Doesn't this prove that 123456789, the commonly used ten numbers represent ten qi? Qi number, Qi number, gasification is the external number, the addition and subtraction of numbers is the change of Qi, and everything is condensed by gasification (this sentence may not be understood by many people, but it means that everything that lives on this earth is influenced by Yin and Yang and the five elements), that is to say, everything can be calculated, and the tone of China people is really big, but do you believe it? If I tell you the calculation method, do you think it's ok?
Take another example to show that the number can be calculated, 1+1=2, which is easy to understand. If you add another picture to a picture, two Yang will become the sun, and one Yang will be 1, and the sun will be 2, so 1+1=2. Similarly, 1+2=3, 2 is the sun, and the anode is yin, which starts from yin, and becomes moving, moving into yang, and going up. Note that learning China's culture should use China's thinking.
ten stems are ten qi, which just forms a circle (spring, summer, autumn and winter are a circle, which is produced by the earth's movement around the sun), but the circle here is not just because the earth is a circle when it rotates around the sun, but because the flow form of qi is a smooth line, it is a circle because it has to be repeated, because qi is produced by celestial bodies. Without the rotation and revolution of the earth, there would be no day and night, no spring, summer, autumn and winter, and no yin and yang. The origin of the dry, then the origin of the earthly branch.
The origin of earthly branches is relatively simple, because Yin and Yang have produced four images of Eight Diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams, which can be pushed down. Two hexagrams to the nth power is equivalent to using binary system to calculate everything in the world. Yin and Yang are divided into two categories, four images are divided into four categories, Eight trigrams are divided into eight categories, and 64 hexagrams are divided into 64 categories, resulting in infinite division. It is enough for the ancients to divide into 64 hexagrams. Because of the appearance of computers, it is not difficult to subdivide below 64 hexagrams, but it needs the wisdom of the ancients. As a China person, you should know what are the dry hexagrams and the Kun hexagrams, and you should know the innate eight diagrams. The dry represents the sky, the Kun represents the land, and the Kun represents the six changes, that is, the twelve news hexagrams. These twelve changes are just one week, that is, one day, or one year, so there is a saying that there is one day in the sky and one year on the ground.