Why did Yan Zun dare to divide the Tao Te Ching into 72 sections?

/fc 1f 4 134970 a 304 e 4929 aa 33 DAC 8 a 786 c 8 175 CEB？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 We know that Lao Zi has 81 chapters, which were divided by Wang Bi in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but not in Han Dynasty before him. In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a man named Yan Zun in Chengdu. He is a hermit who often tells fortune in Chengdu, and then he wrote a book called Lao Zi Gui Zhi. This book basically influenced people who studied Lao Zi's culture in later generations, including Wang Bi who later annotated Lao Zi.

At the beginning of this book, I wrote this passage: "The vagina is eight, the yang is nine, and the yin is the way of yang, so there are two songs in seventy, and the yang is the way of yin, so it is divided into upper and lower levels; With the five elements and eight elements, you will reach forty and start again; With four lines and eight lines, there are finally thirty classics. " What does this mean? I also said in the previous five lines that "the earth is eight and the sky is nine", the sky is yang and the earth is yin, and the meaning of yin and yang is to list the ancient determinant, the behavior is yin and the column is yang, which is divided into 72 parts. When dividing up and down, (common sense: ancient reading is from top to bottom, from right to left), so we use columns to divide up and down, while column number nine is singular and cannot be divided into integers, so we can only divide it into four and five, and because odd numbers are Yang and even numbers are Yin, so Yang is above and Yin is below. So I got five lines, eight classics and forty chapters. Virtue; Four lines and eight lines, I got 30 chapters, which is a chapter of Taoism.

/d0c 8 a 786 c 9 177 F3 e 153 ff 6 c 47 BCF 3 BC 79 e 3d 56 EB？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 If you have different opinions, you are welcome to comment, and you are also welcome to speak freely and talk about your understanding of the Tao Te Ching.

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