I didn't know gossip was so simple until I read the Book of Changes!

Many friends know that the Book of Changes, as the first of the ten thousand classics, is the origin of China's ancient philosophy, and they all want to study it and explore the truth. You can open the book, but you can't understand all the hexagrams and arguments. Even a lot of words are rarely seen now, and you can't even understand them. How can you understand them?

I feel mysterious if I don't understand. In addition, in recent years, the rise of "ghost blowing lights" and "tomb-robbing notes" literature has attracted us to study the magic of "gossip" and want to know how this thin book predicts the future and whether it is good or bad!

When we return to Fuxi's life and understand the process of gossip, we find that the Book of Changes is not so difficult to understand, gossip is not so mysterious, and it is very interesting!

Gossip called by the times

Fuxi lived in the primitive stone age. The living environment was bad at that time. Humans mainly live by fishing and hunting, and depend on the sky for food. What they are most afraid of is the sudden change of weather and the bad weather on the hunting road. Don't say that they can't find food, even their lives will be threatened!

As the leader of tribal clan, Fuxi has developed a superhuman skill-weather forecast through constant observation of nature and comprehensive analysis of laws. Before each action, he will give you specific advice: "It will be sunny tomorrow, so you can hunt at will" or "There may be thunder in the southeast, so be careful"!

This magical ability made Fuxi more and more famous, and people from other tribes came to ask for advice. In this way, Fuxi can't stand it. He forecasts the weather here every day, but he has not enough to eat. what should he do ？

The clever Fuxi began to draw, one symbolizing sunny day, the other symbolizing rainy day and the other symbolizing thunder. Over time, the different images promoted by Fuxi have become the gossip we see today!

See, Fuxi gossip was not originally used for divination, but for forecasting the weather, guiding everyone to hunt and work, and finally evolved into weather and farming time!

Some people are even weirder. The wisdom and cognition of primitive people are far lower than that of modern people. Why can't they understand what they draw now? Don't worry, let's study how gossip is drawn.

Imaginative gossip

We need to use our imagination to understand gossip. Fuxi lived in an era when there were no high-rise buildings, high technology and even ancient things such as carriages and kites. How can he draw the weather forecast?

It's actually quite simple. Fuxi uses solid lines and dotted lines to correspond to natural phenomena, and uses the change of upper, middle and lower positions to explain the changing law!

Specifically, Fuxi first drew three horizontal lines. To represent the sky, the sky is continuous, so it is three horizontal solid lines, while the corresponding ground is broken, so it is three broken horizontal lines. , that is, three dotted lines!

After determining the heaven and earth, Fuxi guided everyone to think about the possible changes of the "heaven and earth", that is, changing from the top, changing from the middle and changing from the bottom. The changes of these three lines reveal the basic laws of the existence, interaction and mutual change of Yin and Yang in the universe!

First look at the changes in the sky. Imagine that in nature, when the wind blows, things under the sky will shake with the wind. That is, the solid line at the bottom becomes a dotted line. Is it? Used to represent the wind!

What changes in the middle of the day? As you can imagine, when the forests and fields between heaven and earth are on fire, the flames are soaring, smoke is rolling and the sky is filled, so the change of the sky is fire (? )!

How to explain the above in the sky? In primitive times, people feared the sky. When they worship the sky, they can see the reflection of the sky when they look down from the lake, so what changes in the sky is Ze (? )!

There are also three changes in the ground. Earthquakes are easily associated with the underground, but people at that time didn't know anything about earthquakes. They just think that when it thunders, the earth shakes, so the underground change is thunder (? )!

The middle of the earth is mainly rivers and lakes, so the change in the middle of the earth is water (? ) to express!

There are many things on the ground, the most striking of which is the towering mountains. The change of the ground uses mountains (? ) to express!

In this way, isn't it much simpler: three consecutive horizontal lines are the sky (? ), the change under the sky is the wind (? ), the change in the sky is fire (? ), the change in the sky is Ze (? ); The three dotted lines are the ground (? ), the underground change is thunder (? ), the change in the field is water (? ), the change on the ground is the mountain (? ), a set of neat and beautiful gossip symbols was born!

The hexagrams and hexagrams of yin and yang changes

Now we know eight natural phenomena represented by gossip symbols and gossip, but these things exist alone and have concrete images. How do they evolve into magical gossip to predict the future? We continue to look down.

It is not difficult to find that the elements of the gossip pattern are very simple, with only a solid horizontal line "one" and a dotted horizontal line "-". Through observing nature, Fuxi realized that there are two forces in nature, which complement and promote each other. He called them Yin and Yang, the solid line "one" was Yang, and the dotted line "-"was Yin!

It was from Yin and Yang that the Book of Changes really came into being, which should be Fuxi's most remarkable and rare contribution. Fuxi found that the place facing the sun was warm and the place facing the sun was a little cold; During the day, the temperature rises, the sunshine is abundant, and the temperature drops at night, which is cool and abundant; Men are strong and suitable for hunting and nursing homes, while women are weak and suitable for collecting wild vegetables and picking wild fruits.

Therefore, Fuxi called those facing Sun Yang and those facing away from Sun Yin "back to back". Sunny during the day and cloudy at night; Men are yang and women are yin. It is deduced that the sky is yang and the earth is yin; The thumb is yang, and the other four fingers are yin; Palm is yang, back of hand is yin!

Later, Zhou Wenwang, Confucius and other sages sublimated and refined the eight natural phenomena represented by Fuxi Eight Diagrams. Dry represents heaven, Kun represents earth, ridge represents water, far represents fire, earthquake represents thunder, Xun (xùn) represents wind, Gen (gèn) represents mountain, and exchange represents Ze. This has the hexagrams in the Book of Changes: Gan, Kun, Kan, Li, Zhen, Xun, Gen and Dui!

Doing means progress. The Book of Changes says that "Tian Xingjian" thinks that the sky is the most creative and dynamic and will never stop, so doing so in the social system represents a father who leads a family to grow up!

Kun means supple. The Book of Changes says "the terrain is Kun". The earth is generous, profound and generous, and knows how to cooperate and assist. So in the family system, Kun represents the mother who pays silently behind her back!

Naoto Kan's original intention is bumpy. The word "owe" is next to "owe" and "soil", which means that people will be in deep danger and experience ups and downs if they leave the surface of soil. So the ridge stands for water. In the social system, Kan represents the middle male in the family. Without the pressure to revitalize the family business, it will also experience ups and downs.

Separation is separation, which is closely related to the characteristics of fire. If there is nothing attached, the fire will go out. So, distance represents fire. In the family system, fire represents women in the middle of the family, who will leave family of origin for independence sooner or later.

Gen (gèn) stands for a mountain, and The Book of Changes says that "the mountain rises to the top". We should pay attention to moderation, just like climbing mountains. If you are tired, you need to have a rest, otherwise it will be difficult to climb to the top of the mountain. In the family system, the root represents the youngest son, who is well taken care of and must be honed!

The earthquake represents thunder and is very noisy. In the family system, thunder represents the eldest son of the family, so we should do things vigorously and show the elegance of the family!

Xun (xùn) represents the wind, which is pervasive and meticulous. And the wind is not eccentric, and the grass falls neatly to one side wherever it blows. In the family system, Xun represents the eldest daughter in the family, helping parents to take care of all aspects, selfless and fair!

The exchange represents Ze. Seeing the clear river pond, rippling blue waves and water and sky, the mood is naturally happy and carefree. The word "Yue" is the word "Yue" of joy. In the family system, the pile represents the girls in the family, naive and romantic, lovely and pure!

Zhu, a great scholar in the Song Dynasty, also wrote a gossip song to help you remember the shapes of gossip and hexagrams: dry three links, Kun six breaks; Shake the jar and cover the bowl; Empty in the middle and full in the middle; Change the shortage, change the shortage, and break it.

After reading these, I not only feel the wisdom of the ancients and the mystery of the Book of Changes, but also feel that gossip is as simple as that!