Shuang Yutu's Philosophical Thought

As we all know, "Taiji Diagram" looks very simple. A circle, a curve, two points and two black and white fish shapes make up a simple and clear pattern. From the picture of the pattern, it is an excellent composition, concise, balanced, symmetrical, harmonious, concrete and abstract. If compared with any icon in the world, it is not inferior. In fact, this seemingly simple pattern is not simple. Behind the concise and abstract composition, there are extremely rich contents and meanings. Compared with any ancient pattern in the world, its richness and profundity are unparalleled. In ancient China, Taiji Tu was illustrated, explained and extended by scholars, experts and outstanding figures such as Taoism and Confucianism, and formed a theoretical system with extremely rich meanings and profound philosophy. In China's ancient dynasties, philosophical thoughts, religious theories, folk beliefs, military affairs, politics, architecture, geomantic omen, literature, chess, etc. were all influenced in one way or another. Until now, Taiji Map is still influencing modern culture and life. Moreover, the philosophy of Tai Chi Tu not only affects people's lives in China, but also spreads abroad, which has considerable influence in some countries. For example, as we all know, there are obvious Tai Chi signs on the Korean flag and Tai Chi signs on the Mongolian flag. The influence of Tai Chi concept can also be seen on the badges of Singapore and Angola air forces, as well as on the badges of South Korea, Germany Olympic Games and South Korea Asian Games. The concept of Yin and Yang of Tai Chi can also be vaguely felt on the world's first computer trademark developed in the United States. There are many opposing factors and complementary yin and yang, all of which are influenced by "Taiji Diagram" in one way or another. By exploring the origin of "Taiji Map", we can know that it is a summary and generalization of the concept that ancient ancestors in China tried to understand natural phenomena. Perhaps it is the interaction, complementarity, correspondence, opposition and unity of nature that inspired our ancestors to explore the law of the change and development of life in the universe, and summarized it as the Yi theory of Yin and Yang, and expressed it in a concise and mysterious schema. For thousands of years, Taiji Map has expressed profound philosophical implications in a simple and profound way, and expressed mysterious thoughts with ingenious composition. If the contemporary computer is compared to a graphical interface connected with an operating system, you will admire the great pioneering work of the ancient people in China in conceiving "Taiji Diagram": the combination of graphics and numbers contains abstraction, simplicity means richness, and simplicity contains profundity. Taiji Map is the crystallization of the design wisdom of ancient Chinese people, and is praised as "a perfect pattern" by the famous western scholar Gombrich. In fact, the profound meaning behind graphics has attracted generations of scholars to trace back to the source and explore the hidden mysteries. In order to explore Tai Chi Map, later generations drew a lot of ideas about Tai Chi Map according to ancient records and related legends, such as the early map of natural rivers between heaven and earth, the map of Tai Chi by Zhou Dunyi in the Northern Song Dynasty, the map of Lai's Tai Chi by Zhide in the Ming Dynasty, the map of Jingyue Tai Chi in the Ming Dynasty and the map of Zuo Fu Tai Chi. There are all kinds of figures in Tai Chi Map, but later people agreed that there are two basic elements in ancient Tai Chi Map: the core part in the middle is the circular pattern of mutual affection between Yin and Yang fish; There are rumors outside. Of course, the octupole diagram has developed to this day, with a pure composition diagram of Yin and Yang fish, without outside gossip, which may be adapted to the trend of modern people pursuing simplification and conciseness of graphics. There have been many explorations on the origin of "Taiji Map" since ancient times, and there are different opinions, some of which are very reasonable, some are very mysterious and some are quite philosophical. Of course, these opinions are still divided, and it is difficult to draw a conclusion. The representative views are as follows: 1. There are many records in ancient books, saying that Taiji map originated from the map made by Fuxi in ancient times, and it is also said that it is a simple map based on the river map and Luoshu map. The mystery of the two books also brings a very mysterious color to Fuxi Taiji diagram; Secondly, in some books about the origin of art, it is often said that Taiji diagram originated from the wheel pattern, vortex pattern and fish pattern on Neolithic pottery, and it evolved from a concrete image to an abstract pattern. Thirdly, due to the close relationship between Taiji diagram and Zhouyi, there is a saying that Taiji diagram originated from Zhouyi Shentongqi written by Wei Boyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Yi and Taiji are shrouded in the mystery of mutual cause and effect; Fourthly, the most influential and philosophical statement is that Taiji Map was painted by Zhou Dunyi, a philosopher around the Song Dynasty, or by Chen Tuan, a Taoist celebrity in the Five Dynasties and the Early Song Dynasty, or by Shouya, a Buddhist in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.