Yang "is vigorous, uplifting, germinating, making public, extroversion, ... There is a relationship between the five elements, that is, the generation of gram is."
Two aspects of contradiction, that is, yin and yang.
Yin and Yang have no matter. What are the motives of ancient people? Why do they want to create a virtual image that has never been seen before, and make it have holographic ability to express the principle of "unity of opposites" through induction and integration? To do the basic laws of the universe? What is the basic guiding ideology for creating Yin and Yang? What's the motive? According to what principles, through what procedures and by what methods?
Motivation to create yin and yang
The inspiration that really inspires people to create Yin and Yang comes from the irresistible laws of nature. Through a large number of social production practices, people deeply realize that although everything in the universe has its own movement and changing personality, showing an ever-changing state of blooming, if we look at it from a macro perspective and ignore the specific details, we will see that everything has the same whole process of movement and change, and * * * has embarked on a three-step process of origin, change, development and final demise.
Generation-development-extinction, a universal natural law, with irresistible majesty, has become the basis for connecting all things together. It is equivalent to telling people that everything is inevitably influenced by some same factors in essence, and the interaction of these same factors is regulating things to inevitably embark on the same movement and change process. As you can imagine, if there is no such natural law in the universe, the movement and change of things will never appear in such a consistent order and show such the same law. The ancients called this law "the way of heaven and earth, the discipline of all things", which means the fundamental program for governing all things in heaven and earth. )
Create the foundation of yin and yang
The law of nature has two nature-oriented points, one is production, the other is extinction, production comes first and extinction comes later, and the process between them is development and decline. Appearance and extinction are two opposite aspects in nature, which shows that irresistible natural laws are essentially the interaction of opposing binary nature, while Yin and Yang are also the interaction of opposing binary nature, and both of them have the nature of * * *. To be sure, it is through the practice of fighting against nature that the ancients summed up some basic principles of * * * through the improvement of thinking, and finally discovered all the secrets of the movement and change of everything in the universe through the associative comparison of the principles. Yin and Yang must be the standardized expression of natural laws.
One of the revelations of nature: the periodicity of the movement and change of things.
Ancient people found out the similarity and regularity between the periodic changes of years, months and days, and found important clues to the basic laws of the universe.
1, the characteristics of monthly cycle change: the garden change of the moon is very regular, always following the cycle from nothing to existence, from lack to garden, from garden to lack, from existence to absence. The protagonist of the moon change is darkness and light, and light is the basis of the unity of darkness and light. Darkness is at the weak end of the brightness table, while brightness is at the strong end.
2. The characteristics of the day-night cycle: darkness and light create another cycle of constant mutual change in people's lives, that is, people feel the deepest day-night change every day, and the whole night, the world is dark; One day and one night make up a day, which goes round and round, becoming an eternal and stable cycle point of day and night.
From the experience of the diurnal cycle, people not only see the change of light and shade, but also experience another feature of the diurnal cycle, that is, the periodicity of cold and hot changes, and cold and hot are a sense of contact. From the perspective of modern physics, the basis of unifying the two is temperature, low-end cold and high-end heat.
3. Characteristics of annual cycle change: The cycle of hot and cold changes not only appears in the cycle change of day and night, but also appears in the seasonal change of a year, becoming a pair of protagonists in the annual change. The mutual growth and decline of the two sides has created a cycle of hot and cold changes in the four seasons. The important feature of the annual cycle is the orderly cycle of temperature change, and the direct manifestation of temperature change is the orderly cycle of cold and hot.
We can find the same characteristics by comprehensively selecting the periodic change process of year, month and day: first, it has two opposite properties: cold, hot, bright and dark; Second, the two sides have a common foundation. The basis of hot and cold is temperature, and the basis of light and shade is brightness. Third, there is a two-way change in the form of mutual growth and decline between the opposing sides, that is, quantitative change; Fourth, after the quantitative change reaches a certain limit, it will lead to qualitative change and inversion.
The second revelation of nature: the two-way movement and change of things.
Periodicity is an orderly two-way movement change. A large number of facts have proved that the movement of many things is often in a state of gradual change or mutation, with no fixed time or uncertainty, and there is no stable periodic cycle. But this kind of movement change without fixed period will eventually reflect the positive and negative two-way movement change, and so will * * *, from scratch, from weak to strong, from strong to weak, and finally from existence to nothing.
Two-way changes are common in everything, and the movement changes of everything are faced with two-way tests, such as advantages or disadvantages, movement or stop, development or decline, success or failure, gains and losses, gains and losses, etc. In other words, positive and negative two-way changes are the inevitable choice of everything.
Two-way change is characterized by two opposite points, one is positive and the other is reverse. When things change, they either develop in a positive direction or in the opposite direction, and finally they show up as two extreme points in nature. Two-way change is the most basic form of the movement and change of all things, and it is the law of change that all things must face. No matter whether the movement of things is periodic or non-periodic, it is essentially in the process of positive and negative two-way movement, and finally it develops from positive extreme or anti-extreme, reaches one extreme point and then returns to another extreme point. Because the positive and negative extremes are in different directions, they have opposite properties and performance States.
The third revelation of nature: the natural opposition of the structure of things.
After in-depth analysis and research on the two-way motion changes of things, the ancients found that because any motion changes inevitably have variable parameters such as from small to large, from low to high, from scratch, from positive to negative, quantitative changes reflect qualitative changes. Therefore, everything inevitably has two opposing aspects, so everything must have a "binary" nature structure of affirmation and negation.
From the influence of "duality" on things, we can see that the qualitative change trend determines the direction of movement, and the quantitative change state determines the external display nature. Therefore, the movement and change state of all things and their exposed essence are the external manifestations of the interaction process of internal opposites.
Combing the contents of these three aspects, we find that there is a secret between them: 1 and "binary" are the basic conditions necessary for everything, and because "binary" structure is the least discrete state, the opposite nature structure naturally becomes the simplest basic structure. 2. Although the two sides of the "dual" structure show completely different opposites in nature, they are all on the same basis, so there is an inseparable close relationship between them, which naturally combines them into a whole. 3. The mutual fluctuation of the opposite nature of "duality" will inevitably lead to the competition of different power proportions in the process of reunification, which will lead to the change of movement and the transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change. Conversely, qualitative change will also lead to quantitative change. Therefore, from quantitative change to qualitative change, from qualitative change to quantitative change, this process will be repeated repeatedly. It can be seen that the nature and performance of the whole is not static, but will change with the ups and downs of internal duality, with the focus on revealing the nature and state of the dominant party. _
If the above contents are comprehensively refined and concentrated, we will find that the laws of nature have such characteristics: the first point is to express opposition, the second point is to express unity, and the third point is to express growth and decline. The movement and change process of all "binary" opposites in unity expresses the relationship, nature, principle and growth and decline law of "unity of opposites".
Create the idea of yin and yang
As we all know, the principle of "unity of opposites" in the basic laws of the universe is generalized and has universal adaptability. Without a fixed goal, the nature of opposition is the root of opposition in the basic laws of the universe, and unity based on the nature of opposition is the principle of unity in the basic laws of the universe.
Can the state of unity of opposites with nature as the main body be used to govern the process of unity of opposites in different forms of everything? Through research, people find that although things emerge in an endless stream in this complicated world and have their own characteristics, no matter what their specific personality is, as long as they exist, they will inevitably have concrete manifestations in three aspects: nature, performance and function. On the basis of these three points, all the manifestations of things are sorted out and divided into two opposing categories from nature, performance and function, so that everything is divided.
All things are determined by their nature, and so are their functions. What kind of properties they have will inevitably have corresponding properties and functions. Therefore, the opposition of nature, performance and function in all things comes from the opposition of nature in the final analysis. Therefore, the opposition between performance and function can be summed up as the opposition of nature as the subject. Through such synthesis, everything in the universe will eventually converge into two kinds of properties with opposite properties.
The unity of opposites in nature lies in the basic laws of the universe and everything, which is the basis of connecting the basic laws of the universe and everything. What people have to do is to create an image of "unity of opposites" and find basic materials.
Reasons for choosing yin and yang
Theoretically, it is not difficult to find a prototype that can clearly express the principle of "unity of opposites", such as water and fire, cold and heat, black and white, motion and static, up and down, crying and laughing, love and hate, life and death, existence and non-existence. But it is not so easy to find a prototype that contains the following contents: First, it must be strong. Second, its opposition and mutual changes between the two sides are visible and tangible; Third, it can be demonstrated by repeated operations in a controlled way; Fourth, it has an inevitable connection with most things and has a wide range of compatible recognition; Fifth, it is the most representative thing.
It is not easy to find such a demanding prototype. After comparison, people in ancient times found that, among all things, only Yinhe met these harsh conditions to the maximum extent and had the best quality as a prototype.
First of all, Yin and Yang in natural phenomena have only concrete attributes, but no concrete materiality. Yin and Yang are strongly opposed in essence, but they are inseparable. You have me and I have you. They have distinct opposition, * * relationship and mutual roots, and have obvious connotation of "unity of opposites".
Secondly, Yin and Yang have a material basis, and Yin Qi is cold and dark, with the performance of internal contraction and downward movement, which can play a cohesive role; The yang is hot and bright, and it has the ability to expand outward and move upward, which can play a role in diffusion. Compared with the two, they express a completely opposite relationship. Yin Qi and Yang Qi regard temperature, brightness and motion as the same basic points, expressing the essential unity of the opposing sides; The quantitative changes of both yin and yang are yin eliminating yang and yang eliminating yin, which embodies a mutual changing law.
The strong contrast between Yin and Yang is manifested in cold and hot, dark and bright, moving and static, expanding and contracting, advancing and retreating. These opposites can be felt by people. Darkness and light are changes in brightness, and people can see them. Cold and heat are temperature changes that people can feel; Motion and stillness, expansion and contraction, advance and retreat are all movements, and their changes can be seen. When the temperature and brightness change, people can use the light source as an experimental tool to conduct repeated operation demonstrations.
People combine the two opposing properties of Yin and Yang into a whole, creating a virtual and abstract whole image composed of opposing properties, which is called "Yin and Yang". The juxtaposition of the words "Yin and Yang" reflects the treatment and balance between the two sides, and at the same time shows that everything starts with Yin and peaks with Yang, so Yin comes first and Yang comes last, which is collectively called "Yin and Yang".
Facts have proved that it is a wise choice to choose Yin and Yang as the basic materials to create the image of "unity of opposites". The image takes the nature with broad significance as the program, and controls the interaction process of everything and things with the unity of nature. The image does reflect the relationship of "unity of opposites" of all things, and Yin and Yang are fully qualified to represent the essence of all concrete things in the universe and the basic principle of homosexuality. The basic law of homosexuality, which represents the movement and change of things, is fully qualified to be "the way of heaven and earth, the discipline of all things, the parents of change, the beginning of life and death" and the basic law governing the emergence, existence, development and extinction of all things in the universe.
The process of creating yin and yang
Yin Qi and Yang Qi expressed the universal principle of "unity of opposites" in matter. Why can't it be used directly to make images? Why not have a ready-made physical prototype, but reinvent it and stubbornly create a brand-new image? What is the reason? In addition, what is the process of creating a prototype into an image? Shaping the prototype into an image is nothing more than improving the material into nature. The ultimate goal of this transformation is to change personality into * * * and expand the connotation of tolerance to meet the requirements of being an image.
The specific methods of creating Yin and Yang by processing Yin and Yang are as follows: First, remove the existence of things. The material "Qi" in Yin and Yang is separated from the "Yin and Yang" in nature. After separation, there is no need for shape, leaving only meaning, that is, as long as there is no need for nature, they are purified into a natural combination image. The meaning of changing from yin and yang to yin and yang has changed greatly, from concrete matter to concrete nature, effectively getting rid of the narrow limitations of concrete matter. Its properties are widely recognized, which greatly expands the content category of images.
The second is comprehensive enrichment. Divide yin and yang into two classes, and then compare the performance of things in nature, performance and function with these two classes, and merge the same kind into the attributes of yin and yang. After comprehensive concentration, the two syllables of yin and yang have captured everything, and the image formed by the combination of yin and yang has also become an overall image of things. A brand-new look has been endowed with profound and all-encompassing connotations and has the broad function of holography.
Then there is the improvement of rationality. Individual attributes, bilateral relations and change rules that originally belonged to the prototype were stripped off and became a theoretical system with nature as the main body. This rational expression of Yin-Yang theory not only makes the content of "unity of opposites" standardized, standardized and programmed, but also standardizes the attribute category, bilateral relationship and changing law for the image.
Because the theory of Yin and Yang is abstractly generated from Yin and Yang, the nature, relations, principles and laws expressed by the theory of Yin and Yang are rational expressions of the basic principles and laws of nature. Therefore, the theory of Yin and Yang is consistent with the basic principles and laws of nature, and conversely, the basic principles and laws of the movement and change of all things in nature can also reflect the principles and laws of Yin and Yang. After some abstract, rich and perfect innovations, Yin and Yang combined with the nature of both sides to create a brand-new image, and then created a great theory to explain the law of "unity of opposites" with the nature, relationship, principle and law of "unity of opposites" of both sides. Visible, a basic prototype, a set of rational norms, naturally hidden in the image of Yin and Yang.
From the close relationship between image, reason and yin and yang, a question is answered for people. Yin and Yang "name but not reality" means that when it is an image, when people say it is reason, it uses the normative theory hidden in the image, and when people say it is qi, it uses the basic prototype hidden in the image, which is the fundamental reason why Yin is both rational and angry in practice.