Taiji map and yin and yang five elements (3)

行 ｜ Yin and Yang Five Elements

In the traditional ideas of Chinese people, "Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" are far -reaching cultural concepts. It can be said that ancient Chinese traditional thoughts were summarized from micro to macro to "yin" and "yang". "Yin and Yang" became people. Understand the basic views of everything in the universe.

The initial meaning of yin and yang originated from the observation of the sun -direction of the sun in people's life practice, which refers to the two cases of no sunlight and sunlight in nature.

This is closely related to the lifestyle of the ancestors' "sunrise and sunset".

In "Speaking and the Words" explained "Yin": "Darkness.

In the concept of the ancients, in general, "Shanbei Shui South" is where the sun is not shining.

"Yang" is the opposite of "Yin";

"Said the text" said, "Gao Ming."

Obviously refers to the bright place that the sun can illuminate directly.

Due to the needs of heating, most of the houses in ancient China are sitting north to south, or to the east of the west to pay attention to the sun. Modern people also have such concepts when buying a house.

In the Book of Songs, the epic "Da Ya · Gong Liu", which reflects the early life of the Zhou nationality, has the poem "The yin and yang, watching its flowing spring";

It means that when the leader of the leader Liu led the people to find a settlement, the important consideration is to observe the terrain and water source, the sun is sufficient to the sun, and naturally it is more suitable for living.

There are many place names in our country with yin and yang. Hengyang, Luoyang, Huayin, and Jiangyin are all from this.

In order to observe the influence of the sun's sunlight on the earth, Gui Table is upright in the sun. The shadow of Guizhou appears under the sun, and the shadow changes with the changes in the four seasons.

The shadow of Guizhou is reciprocating, which is yin and yang.

The ancients set the longest day of shadow as the winter solstice, and the shortest day of shadow was determined to be the summer solstice.

The shadow is in the reciprocating cycle. From the winter solstice to the summer solstice, the yin and yang are long from the sun, and the yin from the summer solstice from the winter solstice is yin.

Here, the chaotic Tai Chi has turned into two instruments, which is the two rituals of yin and yang.

The middle point of the yin and yang cycle is set as spring equinox and autumnal equinox, which forms four elephants, that is, spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The formation of the four elephants, plus the five elements -gold, wood, water, fire, soil.

The so -called five elements may originate from five materials, but later generations are not said to be five substances. Yi Yue "Five Elements, the air of heaven and earth circulates at four o'clock, the cycle is constantly, so it is done."

We now say that buying things is also related to the five elements;

It is said that Zhu Xi, a scientist of the Song Dynasty, learned more about it. Once he met a friend who was proficient in the five elements in the alley, he asked, "What are you doing with the basket?" "". Zhu Xi asked puzzledly: "What does it mean to buy things? Why not buy North and South?" Sheng Wenhe did not answer directly. He said with a smile and said, "I really don't understand? For a while. If you compare the five elements and the five parties, you will suddenly become cheerful. "Zhu Xi thought alone," East "is" wood "," west "is" gold "," south "belongs to" fire "," north "is Nai "Water" ... Suddenly he woke up like a dream, and it turned out that the gentleness was to say in a humorous language, "Go to the streets to buy gold and wood, and you can put it in a basket!" If "North and South" are of course wrong, how can you install water and fire in the basket? Since then, "things" have become synonymous with items until today. Of course, this is just a saying about things.

Although people have a lot of discussions about the origin of Yin and Yang Five Elements;

However, we found from the primitive universe view of the Yi people that the ancient and primitive ancestors of the Yi people had developed "yin and yang" and "five elements" ideas. New way.

The October Local Calendar of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture October

Because the ancient people's understanding often has a natural and simple nature, the generation of various theories is mostly related to various specific things;

Therefore, the concepts of "yin and yang" and "five elements" are not mysterious. The mysterious thing is related to the specific things related to "yin and yang" and "five elements".

In the October Sun calendar, the two New Years of the size are divided into two seasons a year. The first season from the winter solstice to the summer solstice, and the second season from the summer solstice to winter solstice. This is in line with the idea of ​​"yin" and "yang".

Specifically, in the October of the Sun Calendar (Yin and Yang), the five elements (five elements) were "divided into two" in October to express the 10 "time periods" (that is, one month) and five seasons of one year, which represents The sun is a year in the five sports orientations of east, south, west, north, and middle.

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

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