Taiji map and yin and yang five elements (2)

One ｜ Taiji map

From the beams of the Dacheng Hall of the Confucius Temple, to Laozou Lou Guantai, Sanmao Palace, and Baiyun Guan;

From the Taoist robe to the hexagrams of the fortune teller;

From the cover of Chinese medicine, qigong, martial arts, and traditional Chinese culture, to the national flag pattern, the Singapore Air Force emblem, the Bohr's medal emblem, etc., the Tai Chi map is everywhere.

This widely known Taiji map, its shape is like the yin and yang two fish, so it is known as "yin and yang fish Tai Chi".

Tai Chi is an important concept and category in the history of Chinese culture.

It was first seen in "Zhuangzi": "Avenue is not high on the Tai Chi; it is below the six poles but not deep;

After Zhuangzi, the later generations gradually deduced the mature Tai Chi concept based on the "Tai Chi" discussion of "Zhouyi · Department of Ci". Tai Chi refers to the initial strength of the universe.

"Yiwei · Dry Chisu": "Born in invisible", proposed "too easy, too early, too much, and too much."

It is too easy to not see qi, the beginning of qi is too early, the beginning of the shape is too at the beginning, and the quality of the quality is too vegetarian. The state of the gas -shaped quality is universal, and it is called chaos.

The chaos is what the ancients said.

In the state of not being divided into Tai Chi, it is given the meaning of its original matter.

This view is more common in the two men;

Such as Liu Ye: "Tai Chi Central Government";

Wang Chongyin Yixian said: "The vitality is not divided, chaos is one";

The process of clarifying the universe and even everything, the Tai Chi is the state before the heavens and the earth, before the chaos is not divided into yin and yang.

"Said": "Extreme, Dong Ye, from wood, urgent sound."

"Yi" said: Yi has Tai Chi (the big wooden, that is, the table), the two instruments (two to the line), the two instruments and four elephants (two to two points), the four elephants are gossip.

Gossip, after two quarters, plus four, a total of eight.

Tai Chi map, with the boundary of the circle in the circle, draws two equal yin and yang fish to represent the relationship between all things.

Black and white fish, white fish for white;

This is a statement of day and night.

The head of Yangyu has a yin -eyed, and the head of the yin fish has a yang eye, indicating that everything is affecting each other.

In the works of the Song people, it is basically considered "congenital map" (that is, Tai Chi map, which should include "yin and yang fish figures" or "yin and yang fish pictures").

Zhu Zhen believes: "Chen Yan passed on the first day, and spreads Mu Xiu, Mu Xiu passed on Li Zhicai, and the talents spread Shao Yong."

It is a pity that this "congenital map" has not been passed down with the above text, so that people have not been able to confirm whether it is a "yin and yang fish picture", or the "congenital gossip position map", or what other pictures. Existing literature found that the earliest Taiji map was in the "Wing Xuan" of Zhang Xingcheng in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Shaoxi (1193), Zhu Xi asked Cai Yuan to settle in Shu to find a picture. After asking three pictures from the hidden in the hidden by Shu, Zhu Xi may have seen it. Among them, there is a "congenital" picture. Essence

Zhang Xingcheng believes that "Yi" is a muddy phenomenon, and Shao Yong's ancestral picture is the Lord Hun Tian.

"The principle of Gai Hun is no different. Tang and his party can know it, and the Gaitian family learns to lose its original original, so Ziyun and Kangjie are all non -saying" ("Wing Xuan"), thinking that Shao Yong does not agree with Gai Tian Said, it shows that the Taiji map comes from astronomical observations.

There are a lot of arguments about Tai Chin. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Zhongquan works "Authentic Taoism". The book contains "Ancient Tai Chi Map". This is the first time in the existing document. In terms of the title of this picture, it is basically unified. The final name is "Tai Chi Map", which has been extended to this day.

*Note: All pictures in the article are from the Internet

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