Brief introduction to Fuxi's story of painting hexagrams

Brief introduction of Fuxi's divination story;

Xihuagua is a story of ancient myths and legends in China. According to legend, gossip was painted by Fuxi. In the age of human ignorance, life was hard and difficult, and at this time, an epoch-making great figure-Fuxi was born in the clan tribe in the upper reaches of Weishui River. He led the tribe to "break bamboo, continue bamboo, fly soil and eat meat", but he was still hungry and cold.

Fuxi was at a loss and at a loss. In my spare time, I often sit on the top of Guatai Mountain, thinking hard about the mysteries of the universe, looking up at the changes of the stars, overlooking the laws of mountains and rivers, reflecting on myself from time to time, chasing the years and months, rain or shine.

Perhaps Fuxi's sincerity touched heaven and earth. One day, a beautiful dreamland appeared before his eyes. After a loud noise, Ma Longshan on the other side of the Weihe River was suddenly enlightened, but he saw Ma Longfei flying out, unhurriedly going down the river and falling straight on the water stone in the middle of the river. These hexagrams are clear and shiny. At this time, the water-dividing stone is also transformed into a plane Tai Chi, surrounded by Yin and Yang, and radiant.

This scene immediately shocked Fuxi's mind, and Tai Chi was deeply reflected in his understanding. He suddenly got a torch and thoroughly penetrated the password of the unity of man and nature. It turns out that heaven and earth are so simple and clear-only yin and yang.

In order to let people enjoy the benefits of nature from generation to generation, he turned lofty thoughts into the simplest symbols, with "one" as the yang and "-"as the yin, arranged in all corners of the country into gossip.

Fuxi's paintings opened the sky, opened the floodgates of people's rational thoughts, and sent people struggling in misery to the other side of happiness, thus winning people's eternal yearning and respect.

Extended data

The legend of "Fuxi painting hexagrams" is regarded as a lie by modern Yi scholars and is not accepted. However, through the investigation of mythology, we can find the myth prototype of primitive philosophy from Fuxi's creation myth, and specifically see the evolution track from Fuxi's creation myth to Yi Gua.

In the process of China's early philosophy, I Ching was in a transitional stage from mythical thinking to theoretical thinking and from primitive thinking to philosophical abstract thinking. Concepts such as Taiji, Yin and Yang, Four Images, Eight Diagrams, and the general understanding of the universe in the Book of Changes are all abstracted from the concrete representation of mythical thinking, which is the result of abstracting and logicizing the mythical world outlook.

Myth is the mother of philosophy. Western philosophers say that any mythical god is only an objective or real intuitive philosophical theory. The early thinking form of human beings has always been visual and emotional.

In Vico's "New Science", the historical comparison method is used to find the value of primitive myths in the process of all nationalities in the world from barbarism to civilization, and it is considered that mythical thinking mode is an inevitable initial stage of human thinking development.

It is believed that this "metaphysics of poetry" and "wisdom of poetry" are the cognitive level achieved by human beings through senses and imagination. Although it is different from the abstract rational level of philosophy and science, it is also their foundation and source.

Because of the intuition and integrity of China's traditional way of thinking and the pictographic features of language, China's early philosophy showed the characteristics of mythical thinking to a great extent. The basic categories and concepts of China's early philosophy, such as Tao, Taiji, Yin and Yang, Five Elements and Yi, are all abstracted from the concrete images of mythical thinking.

Myth is the mother of philosophy. Western philosophers say that any mythical god is only an objective or real intuitive philosophical theory. The early thinking form of human beings has always been visual and emotional.

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