What does the legendary river map mean?

The river map and Luo Shu produced by astronomical observation became valuable things for the emperors of the three dynasties. Hetu and Luoshu are simple in structure and are one of the cultural cornerstones of ancient China. Liao Ping, a scholar of Confucian classics in Qing Dynasty, made many textual researches on The Book of Songs, The Book of Changes and The Internal Classic, and confirmed that the theory of The Internal Classic originated from The Book of Changes, and the mathematical theory of The Book of Changes was taken from Heluo.

Fuxi made an in-depth observation on the sun, moon and stars, seasonal climate and the rise and fall of vegetation. However, these observations are meaningless to him. One day, the Yellow River suddenly helped out the "Dragon Horse", that is, at this moment, he suddenly found himself in a strong spiritual shock and deeply felt that there was an inexplicable harmony between himself and the nature he worshipped. He found that the design of the dragon horse coincided with his experience of observing everything naturally. In this way, Fuxi drew "Eight Diagrams" through the dragon horse's pattern and his own observation, and the dragon horse's pattern was called "River Map". In Shan Hai Jing, it is said that "Fuxi has a river map, and Xia people call it' Lianshan'". Fuxi's "refined divination" comes from the astronomical phenomena, and its "root" is the river map;

The river map consists of five elements, five elements, yin and yang, and images of heaven and earth. The schema takes white circles as yang, sky and odd numbers; Black dots are yin, earth and even numbers. And the combination of heaven and earth and five elements, and the combination of yin and yang and five elements, so the schema structure distribution is as follows:

First, living in the north with Liuhe, because of natural water, the land is 60%; Two and seven are friends who live in the south, because the land is second only to inflammation, and the sky is 70%; Three and eight live in the east as friends, because the sky is full of trees and the land is 80%; Four or nine live in the west, and gold is born because of the land, and the sky is 90%; Five and ten are in the same place and live in the center, because they were born in five places and the land is 100%. The river map is drawn according to the five-star season. Five stars, called five latitudes in ancient times, are five planets in the sky. Wood is called the old star, fire is called the twinkling star, earth is called the town star, gold is called the white star and water is called the morning star. Five elements of operation, divided into 28 dormitories. Because its orbit is not far from the sun road, the ancients used it to mark the sun. The five stars generally appear in the Arctic sky in the order of wood, fire, earth, gold and water. Each star has a 72-day line, and the five stars circle 360 degrees. It can be seen that the river map is drawn by the five-star sky, which is also the source of the five elements. Because before the winter solstice of 1 1 month every year, Mercury can be seen in the north. When the winter weather comes, everything is dormant, and there are only ice, snow and water on the ground. This is how the concept of water travel was formed. After the summer solstice in July, Mars was seen in the south. It was summer weather and the ground was very hot, so the concept of fire line was formed. At the vernal equinox in March, Jupiter appeared in the east, and just as spring came, plants sprouted and grew. The so-called "spring comes to the world to know the vegetation", and this is how the concept of wooden walking is formed. In September and the autumnal equinox, Venus appears in the west. In ancient times, weapons were represented in many ways to show the season of autumn war, and everything was old and withered, which led to Jin Xing. See Saturn in May, which means that the wet earth is in the long summer season, and the wood, fire and gold water all take this as the midpoint. Observing the four seasons climate change caused by wood fire and gold water from the ground, the concept of soil travel is formed in this way.

An image of a river map

The river map uses ten black and white dots to represent the four images of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and its picture is square. As follows:

North: There is a white dot inside and six black dots outside, which indicate Xuanwu astrology and five elements of water.

East: There are three white spots inside and eight black spots outside, which represent Qinglong Star and Wuxing Tree.

South: There are two black spots and seven white spots outside, indicating the five behaviors of Suzaku and fire.

West: There are four black spots and nine white spots outside, representing the white tiger star and the five elements of gold.

Center: five white dots inside and ten black dots outside, representing the singularity of time and space, five elements of soil.

(Where odd numbers are white dots for Yang and even numbers are black dots for Yin. Of the four elephants, each elephant commands seven stars, for a total of twenty-eight nights. ) The above is the river map. Among them, according to the orientation of the ancient constellation facing south, the four elephants are: former Suzaku, later Xuanwu, Zuo Qinglong and right White Tiger. This is the origin of geomantic pictograms.

The number of river maps and river maps is divided into;

1, number of heaven and earth: river chart with 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Where 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 is yang, and 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 is yin. Yang adds up to 25, Yin adds up to 30, and Yin and Yang add up to 55. Therefore, the ancients said: "The number of heaven and earth is five out of fifty", that is, the number of heaven and earth is fifty-five. "Being a ghost is also a change". That is, the number of everything is just the number of heaven and earth.

2. The number of existing things: water is above the sky, and the ground is 60%; 70% of the fire days ranked second; There are three trees in the sky, 80% of the land; The land is rich in gold, and the sky is 90%; Heaven is born in five places, and the land is 100%. So one is water, the other is fire, the third is wood, the fourth is gold and the fifth is earth. Six is the quantity of water, seven is the quantity of fire, eight is the quantity of wood, nine is the quantity of gold, and ten is the quantity of soil. Everything has a number, and it can only be born when it is born; Everything has a number, and it can only be achieved if it can be achieved. Therefore, everything has its number.

3, the number of five elements: the number of five elements is the number of five elements, namely water one, fire two, wood three, gold four, soil five, also known as the number of small eyes. One, three and five are positive numbers, and its sum is nine, so nine is the number of anodes. Two or four is a negative number, and its sum is six, so six is a negative number. The number of yin and yang is 15, so it is the number of five elements of yin and yang when converted into Luo Shu, and it is 15 in both vertical and horizontal directions.

4. The number of big swallows: the number of big swallows is 50, that is, the number of five elements taking soil is10; It is also the number of heaven and earth. The number of heaven and earth is 55. Subtract the number of Xiaoyan from the number of Xiaoyan to get the number of Dayan 50, where Xiaoyan is the number of heaven and earth and Dayan is the number of heaven and earth. The so-called "the number of swallows is fifty, and it uses forty-nine" is the method of predicting divination by using the number of swallows: taking one as the body and forty-nine as the use, so it uses forty and nine.

5, dry days: dozens of river maps, but also the number of more than ten days. The number of intercourse is: one or six people belong to the same clan, two or seven people belong to the same clan, three or eight people are friends, four or nine people are friends, and five or ten people belong to the same clan. It is the number of all things that exist. Therefore, Party A and Party B are one or six cousins, Party B and Party G are two or seven cousins, Party C and Party B are three or eight friends, and Party D and Party B are four, nine, five and ten friends. After ten days of dry intercourse, it became the five elements of dry intercourse, and the body of five elements of river map became the five elements of dry intercourse.

6. The number of Yin absorption in Liujia: the number of heaven and earth is 55 plus the number of five elements, which is the number of Yin absorption in Liujiazi and five elements. The yin, yang and five elements of the ten-day dry intersect with everything, seeking common ground, and making 12 sound synchronously, regardless of silence. According to the river map, the north, east, south, west and middle elements are imaged in 60 tones. It is the sound number of the five elements of heaven and earth.