According to legend, Emperor Fuxi once created a "Yao piece" with some small stones that had been ground flat. The polished side of the pebble represents the negative symbol "-or eight"; The unpolished side represents the symbol "one". One stone and two hexagrams represent interdependent things and phenomena, such as "the sun and the moon, men and women, yin and yang, existence and absence".
Emperor Fuxi once drew a circle on the ground and put two pieces of "one yin and one yang" to create a figure of "sun and moon symbol", which was later called "Yin and Yang fish" or "Taiji Yin and Yang map". Fu Xihuang also created "three symbols" representing original characters and numbers. There are eight forms of "three symbols"-* *, which is called "gossip" by later generations. Emperor Fuxi once placed eight "three hexagrams" around the "sun and moon symbol", which constituted a schematic diagram showing the development and changes of everything. Later people called it "Fuxi Taiji Eight Diagrams" or "Fuxi Yi". Fuxiyi is the earliest known graphic book of Yi Studies in China.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Yi unearthed in Yin Ruins records the graphics of Fuxi Yi. Please look at the left and right combinations of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "Yi".
Sun and Moon Symbols+Three Symbols = Yi
Three symbols+sun and moon symbols = Yi
The "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded the graphic components of Fuxi Yi:
First, the deformed word "moon" stands for "the symbol of the sun and the moon", describing the cycle of the sun and the moon, the alternation of yin and yang, and the endless situation;
Second, the word "three" stands for "three symbols" and describes eight original numbers and characters around the "sun and moon symbol". No matter whether the word "three" is placed on the left or the right, the Oracle bones and tortoise shells are the word "Yi" in the ancient culture of China.
The word "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions shows that "Yi" in ancient China is not "Jing" but "Tu". Modern archaeological discoveries: In the remains of ancient ancestors in China, small stones with smooth surfaces often appear, which should be regarded as "stubborn pieces". These unearthed "pieces" and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "Yi" prove that the image of Fuxi Yi was widely circulated in ancient times. The ancient Fuxi Yi figure is the source of China's Yi-ology, which deserves our serious study and research.
According to the word "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the unearthed cultural relics "Yi Pian", it is easy to reproduce the graphics of Fuxi Yi. People only need 26 pieces to display Fuxiyi's graphics. The Fuxiyi figure composed of these 26 tablets, like the text composed of 26 letters, is rich in content and far-reaching. Later generations have explored for more than 5,000 years, and different opinions have been expressed. So far, they are still exploring and studying. Please look at the Tai Chi Eight Diagrams made by modern people in Xihuang Temple.
Emperor Xi holds a portrait of Tai Chi gossip.
The Chinese nation has a long history of about1700 thousand years. Five thousand years ago, in the Fuxi era, the "dragon totem" symbolizing national unity and Fuxi Yi's graphics appeared. By exploring the content of Fu Xiyi, we can understand the principles of China's Yi-ology and the way of keeping in good health, the mathematics and laws of China's divination, and enter the academic gate of China's geomantic omen. The connotation of Fuxiyi is briefly described as follows:
First of all, the symbol of the sun and the moon contains philosophical principles.
"Sun and Moon Symbol" is a Taiji diagram.
(a) "Fuxi Sun and Moon Symbol", later known as "Fuxi Taiji Map", which contains "Tai Chi is infinite, Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments; Yin and Yang complement each other and transform each other; The extremes of things must be reversed, and the reciprocating is endless. It is not difficult to find that "Taiji gives birth to two instruments, and Yin and Yang complement each other" shows the law of unity of opposites; The philosophical principles of modern dialectical materialism, such as "the extremes of things must be reversed, and the reciprocating infinity", express the law of negation of negation.
(2) Taiji diagram suggests that the three states of "Taiji, Yin and Yang" exist in one thing. Everything in the universe has three manifestations: Tai Chi and Yin Yang. Modern science has found that invisible "energy" exists in invisible "field" and visible "thing" "Matter, energy and field" are three forms of expression of matter. The "dominance" and "invisibility" of these three material forms; Strong and weak; Changes such as "more and less" constitute everything in the universe. We can regard Tai Chi as energy, Yang as a tangible object and Yin as an invisible field. Magnetic field, electric field and gravitational field all have their "field source objects". Both source (Yang) and field (Yin) can carry energy (Tai Chi). Taiji diagram contains the philosophical principle that "matter constitutes the world".
(3) China's theory of keeping in good health, which developed from Fuxi's Taiji diagram, reminds people that essence (Yang), qi (Taiji) and spirit (Yin) are the three treasures of the human body. Practicing "Qigong" such as Tai Ji Chuan can strengthen the body and prolong life.
The original essence of the human body, that is, the "living body", comes from the reproductive substances in its parents, and the "essence" after birth comes from the nutrients ingested by its own digestive system and respiratory system. The "Qi" or "life energy" of the human body is the energy transformed from the "essence" of the human body. The "spirit" of human body, that is, "life field" or "character soul", needs the support of "essence".
The theoretical basis of China's health preservation is Fuxi Taiji Diagram and Huangdi Neijing. Practitioners who adopt the idea of "transforming essence into qi, and benefiting from luck" practice Qigong every day, and promote the body to absorb life objects (essence) by concentrating their thoughts, and then transform them into life energy (qi), guiding qi to penetrate the whole body and enhance life field (qi). If practitioners can be "clear-headed, energetic and energetic", their working ability and physical health can be improved.
China advocated "strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation" and created many methods of "storing essence, benefiting qi and nourishing the spirit". If the body's "spirit" is abundant, it can strengthen the body, get rid of illness and prolong life. Tai Chi map is a symbol of China's Yi-ology, which is often regarded as a symbol by Tai Chi lovers of health, medicine and Taoism in China.
Second, the "three symbols" contain binary mathematics.
The eight "three symbols" created by Emperor Fuxi are primitive Chinese characters and binary digital symbols. Later, China's ancestors invented octal, hexadecimal and decimal numbers. With the words "one, two, three, ... hundred, thousand and ten thousand", binary numbers and words were not needed. "Three hexagrams of Fuxi" was named as hexagrams by later generations and used as "hexagrams", which was called Fuxi Eight Diagrams. With the passage of time, the truth of "binary number" in Fuxi gossip was gradually buried. The principle and law of "binary number" in Fuxi Bagua were not discovered until modern times. Modern people have created digital circuits composed of "0" and "1", thus creating a new era of science and technology. The invention of digital circuit popularized the principle and law of "binary number", making it easy for modern people to understand the binary mathematics of Fuxi Bagua:
Every "three hexagrams" in Fuxi Bagua needs to be composed of three hexagrams, and each hexagram has two possible states: yin or yang. According to the multiplication principle of permutation and combination, there are only 2*2*2=8 such "three hexagrams". In order to facilitate writing, we use the number "0" to mark the symbol "-"; Mark the symbol "one" with the number "1". The number arrangement of yin and yang symbols "from bottom to top" is transformed into the number arrangement of number symbols "from left to right". In this way, the corresponding relationship between "yin and yang symbols" and "digital symbols" is clear at a glance. For example, the "Xun" hexagrams arranged by Yin and Yang from bottom to top correspond to the "Xun" hexagrams arranged by "0 1 1" from left to right. "0 1 1" means the original word "wind" and the binary number "3". Please see the picture below:
Wind, 3, sea melon.
The eight binary "number three hexagrams" in Fuxi Bagua are: 000,001,01,01,1,1. The decimal values, characters and names of the eight binary numbers "San Yao" are as follows:
Gua Symbol-Value-Text, "Gua Name"
000-0- Earth, Yin, female, "Kun";
00 1- 1- mountain, "root";
0 10-2- water, "Kan";
0 1 1-3- wind, "Xun";
100-thunder, "shocking";
10 1-fire, "go";
1 10-6- ze, "right";
1 1 1-Tian, Yang, male, "fuck".
As can be seen from the above table, the changes in the number and position of yin and yang symbols in the "three symbols" are manifested in the changes in binary numbers and the original content. For example, from "000" to "11"to "165438" to "Heaven, Yang and Male". The change from "Kun Gua" to "Gan Gua" contains the philosophical principles of modern dialectical materialism, such as "the nature of things depends on the nature of the main contradiction" and "the change of things generally follows the law of quantitative change to qualitative change".
Thirdly, "Taiji Eight Diagrams" and China Feng Shui.
From the word "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, we know that the two major parts of Fuxi Taiji Eight Diagrams, namely the "three symbols", are arranged in a ring around the "Sun and Moon symbols", which is certain. However, the details of how the "three symbols" in the original picture are arranged and how the "sun and moon symbols" are rotated are unknown to future generations.
In the existing geomantic classics of China, both the orientation map of "innate gossip" and the orientation map of "gossip the day after tomorrow" were made by later generations through speculation. Therefore, there are various opinions, most of which have no objective basis and are all "for reference only". Among them, the position that can be in line with the world geography academic is the position determined by "Thai hexagrams". The Thai hexagram "Gankun, Yin and Yang intercourse" is auspicious. Please look at the orientation map determined according to the "Tai" hexagram: facing north, upper north and lower south, left west and right east. Eight diagrams arranged in a ring, with the inner layer as the bottom and the outer layer as the top.
Starting from the top of Kuntu 000 (north), clockwise it is 00 1 Genshan, 01Kanshui (east), 01Xunfeng and reaching the bottom1kloc-0/dry day (south). Starting from the next dry day (south) of11,clockwise it is 1 10 Du Ze, 10 1 turn off the fire (west),1. Rotate clockwise from 000 Kuntu (north), pass through1dry day (south) and then return to 000 Kuntu (north) to complete the positive reaction from "000" to "1 1 65438+",and the central ".
If you change the direction several times, you will find that whether you start from the top 000 Kun hexagrams, start from the bottom11dry hexagrams, or rotate clockwise or counterclockwise, you will always see Yang hexagrams (dominant) from none (000) to the most (16544). In other words, Yang (dominance) gradually decreases from the maximum value of "1 1" to "000" and then gradually increases to the maximum value of "11",which is also a regular "periodic cycle". This "north, north, south, left west and right east" gossip map is simple and practical, which is not only popular all over the world, but also conforms to the true meaning of China Feng Shui "south, left Qinglong, right white tiger (west fire), former Suzaku, and later Xuanwu".
The true meaning of China's geomantic omen comes from the experience accumulated by China ancestors in finding a livable environment. The ancients in China believed that "mountain" had the potential of "Long Mai" and "water" had the potential of "Qinglong". Macro "Feng Shui" is a big environment composed of "mountains and rivers". For example, the livable environment with beautiful scenery and sunny leeward, and the open areas such as Pingchuan area where rivers meet or surround all belong to the "land of feng shui".
Other "Eight Diagrams Orientation" have their own opinions according to the names of hexagrams or the attributes of five elements and branches, but most of them are divorced from the true meaning of China geomantic omen and are only for entertainment. Therefore, in addition to the orientation rules such as "facing north (above the map), facing north and facing south, left west and right east" and orientation terms such as "facing south, left Qinglong (east), right white tiger (west), former Suzaku (south) and rear Xuanwu (north)" in China's geomantic rules, other geomantic remarks are for reference only, and there is no need to delve into them.
To sum up, Fu Xishi is not only the source of China's geomantic omen, China's health preservation, China's Yi-ology and three-dimensional world outlook, but also the best carrier of China's Marxist philosophy. Fuxiyi has its source position in China's traditional culture since ancient times. Therefore, Emperor Fuxi is known as the "ancestor of China's humanities" with a long history.