What is the "second instrument" in "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments"?

The word "two vessels" in classical Chinese means "two representations of the universe", which represents the vague and abstract understanding of the stars in the universe of ancient China. Originated from the ancient people's view of nature in China. The ancients observed various opposing and related natural phenomena in nature, such as heaven and earth, sun and moon, day and night, cold and heat, men and women, up and down, etc.

In the way of philosophical thinking, the concept of "Yin and Yang" is summarized, and Yin and Yang also map the understanding of opposition and related relations in this kind of nature, so it is generally recognized that "Er Yi" mainly refers to "Yin and Yang".

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Yin and Yang were mentioned in Yi Zhuan and Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching. The theory of Yin and Yang has penetrated into all aspects of China's traditional culture, including religion, philosophy, calendar, Chinese medicine, calligraphy, architecture, geomantic omen, divination and so on. Yin and Yang are the division or subdivision of "unity of opposites or contradictory relationship". These philosophical thoughts and ideas still have a wide influence today.

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"Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four images" first came from the Book of Changes. 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." Kong Ying Da said: "Tai Chi means that before the heavens and the earth are divided, the vitality is mixed into one, that is, the beginning and the beginning."

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.

The way of heaven and earth creates everything with yin and yang. Heaven and earth, sun and moon, thunder and lightning, wind and rain, four o'clock, before noon, and male, rigid and soft, dynamic and static, obvious convergence, everything, regardless of yin and yang. The truth of life is that yin and yang nourish hundreds of skeletons. Meridian, flesh and blood, abdomen and back, five internal organs, six internal organs, and even seven damages and eight benefits are incompatible with yin and yang.

This theory has been established for two or three thousand years and is still describing Vientiane for people. There is an interactive relationship between man and nature. People are related to heaven and earth, corresponding to the sun and the moon. The news of the profit and loss of one body is related to heaven and earth and should be related to things.

Infinity begets Tai Chi-the beginning of the nameless world.

Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments-the mother of all things (one dimension).

Two instruments produce four images-two dimensions.

Four images give birth to eight diagrams-three dimensions.

Taiji gives birth to the second instrument, which is the first change of the fundamental power of the universe. After this change is completed, a first-class "Yin" and a first-class "Yang" are produced. But "Yin" and "Yang" still have the function of Yin and Yang, and will continue to evolve.

Thus, the first-class "Yin" produces "Yin in Yin"-Taiyin, "Yang in Yin"-Shaoyang; The first level of "yang" produces "yin in the yang"-less yin and "yang in the yang"-the sun. Taiyin, Shaoyang, Shaoyin and Sun are the secondary combinations of Yin and Yang, collectively called "Four Elephants". This process is called "two instruments give birth to four images". Four images are the basic elements of the second level.

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