What do the two instruments and four images in gossip mean?

These two instruments refer to yin and yang.

These four images refer to: Shaoyin, Laoyin, Shaoyang and Lao Yang.

Gossip refers to: dry, Kun, true, smoked, watching, rational, root and right.

If you change from more yang and less yin to more yin and less yang, you add another yang to the yin, which is called less yang, representing spring; Finally, it changed from more yin and less yang to total yin, so on top of the yin, a yin was added, called Taiyin, representing winter.

Therefore, the four images are completely a cyclical evolution process, from the sun to Shaoyin, then to Shaoyang, then to Taiyin, and finally to Shaoyang, Shaoyin and the sun.

Extended data

Bagua is the basic philosophical concept of ancient people in China, and it is the ancient theory of Yin and Yang. The so-called gossip is the eight diagrams, and the gossip was drawn by the Fuxi family of Taihao, which is Fuxi.

Gossip is actually the earliest writing and a symbol of writing. It is a tool in China culture, which integrates Yin and Yang and five elements, and deduces the relationship between various things in world time and space.

Yi zhuan copula upload: "It is easy to have Tai Chi, that is, two instruments give birth to four images, and four images give birth to eight diagrams."

The whole passage means that all things and phenomena in the vast universe contain yin and yang, as well as inside and outside. But they are both antagonistic and interdependent, which is the general law of the material world, the procedure and origin of many things, and the fundamental reason for the emergence and destruction of things.