What does gossip mean?

The eight diagrams are: dry, Kun, Xun, right, root, truth, reason and look.

Dry represents the sky, Kun represents the earth, Xun represents the wind, earthquake represents the thunder, ridge represents the water, distance represents the fire, root represents the mountain, and change represents the ze.

Gossip is the foundation of the Yi-ology system. The pre-Qin Yi-ology was mainly "three changes", namely, Lianshan in Xia Dynasty, Tibet in Shang Dynasty and Zhouyi in Zhou Dynasty. Later generations are familiar with Zhouyi, which can be divided into Yijing and Yi Zhuan.

Gossip represents China's early philosophical thoughts. Besides divination and geomantic omen, their influence also involves Chinese medicine, martial arts, music and mathematics.

Extended data:

The "hexagram" of eight diagrams is a cognitive word, which comes from Gui Cong Bu. Gui, referring to Tu Gui, began to measure the shadow of the sun with mud columns. Bu, the meaning of measurement. Set up eight diagrams to measure the sun shadow, that is, summarize and record the observed sun shadow from the four corners to form the image of eight diagrams.

The most basic unit of gossip is hexagram, which is mostly a special symbol describing the change of sun shadow. There are two kinds of yin and yang. Yang represents sunshine and Yin represents moonlight. Each hexagram has three hexagrams, representing heaven, earth and people respectively. The celestial part of the three talents, including the whole celestial movement and meteorological changes, was called astronomy in ancient times.

Terrain refers to the method of calculating the annual cycle by observing the sun shadow and understanding the whole process of growth and collection by using the principle of land use. The human sector refers to the combination of astronomy, geography and personnel in order to carry out production and life according to these laws. The arrangement order of each hexagram is from bottom to top, the bottom horizontal line is called the first hexagram, the middle horizontal line is called the second hexagram, and the last horizontal line is called the third hexagram.

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