Everything in the world has its own yin-yang and five-element attributes, forming an intricate and mutually restrictive relationship. Although we have hundreds of ways to seek good fortune and avoid evil, they are nothing more than some human efforts to use the mutual opposition in nature to avoid the evil situations that are in opposition to our own five elements and turn to the auspicious place where our own five elements are in harmony.
The relationship between the five elements: metal and water, water produces wood, wood is fire, fire is earth, and earth is metal.
How to understand it? The metal melts and turns into water. After the water is filled, there are trees, and the trees can be burned. After the fire burns out, ashes (soil) will be left behind, and gold can be dug out of the soil.
The relationship between the Five Elements: Metal overcomes Wood, Mutu Ke, Earth overcomes Water, Water Hawke, and Fire Metal Section.
In the same way, metal can cut down trees, tree roots can be used to scrape soil, soil can be used to fill puddles, water can extinguish fire, and fire can melt metal.
Remember, conflict is always mutual. For example, although wood generates fire, if the fire is strong, it is also good for the wood; although water can defeat fire, if the fire is strong, the water will dry up. The so-called "shengke" is nothing more than which side has the upper hand.
The corresponding relationship between yin and yang, time and things:
Gold: West, White, Geng, Xin, Shen, You, Monkey, Rooster, Autumn.
Wood: East, cyan, A, B, Yin, hair, tiger, rabbit, spring.
Water: North, Black, Ren, Gui, Zi, Hai, Rat, Pig, Winter.
Fire: South, Red, Bing, Ding, Si, Wu, Snake, Horse, Xia.
Earth: center, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow , yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow
Dry: Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin, Gui.
Yang Tianqian: Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng, Ren
Yang Dizhi: Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, Xu.
Yin branches: Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, Hai.
Four-pillar formula:
A, B, Chou Haijin, Bingyin, Dingmao, the fire in the stove, Chen Wu's big forest, the roadside of Wu Geng Xinwei Road,
Ren's sword is made of gold, Jia Hai's mountain is made of fire, Bingzi Ding Chou's sword is made of water, and Wu Yin takes the city head.
Gengxin Temple white wax gold, Renwu cinnamon-flavored willow wood, Shen Jiayi Youquan water, Bingxu soil Dinghai Mansion,
Chou Lei, Geng Maomu, Gui Liushui, Wu Jiayi Weisha's Golden Bell,
The Shending Youshan is on fire, the martial virtues have flattened the ground, Gengzi is ugly on the wall, and the ghosts and ghosts are covered with gold foil.
Chen Yi has rekindled the fire, the river is not flooded in the afternoon, Wu Shen has been built in Datie, and Geng Shouxin has made the golden hairpin in Xinhai.
Guiren Chou mulberry tree, Jiayin Maoyi great stream, Chen Bing Ding Si water and earth, Wu Wu is not fire,
New pomegranate wood in the west, common people Guihai sea water.
Metaphysics
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, a trend of thought advocating for Lao and Zhuang appeared, which generally refers to the metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The concept of "Xuan" was first seen in "Laozi": "Xuan is Xuan, the door of all wonders." Wang Bi's "Laozi Lue" said: "The deep is the deep." Metaphysics is the theory that studies profound and esoteric issues. The Wei people attached great importance to Laozi, Zhuangzi and the Yi Jing, calling them the "Three Mysteries". The main representatives of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties include Yan He, Wang Bi, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Xiang Xiu and Guo Xiang. The emergence of metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties has its profound social background and ideological and cultural background. In short, it was created on the basis of the decline of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty to make up for the shortcomings of Confucianism. It evolved from Taoism in the Han Dynasty and Huang-Lao School. It is the product of the direct evolution of dialects in the late Han and early Wei dynasties. Throughout the Wei and Jin metaphysics, its basic characteristics are:
① Take the Three Mysteries as the main research object, and use Lao and Zhuang to interpret the "Book of Changes".
② Pay attention to the dialectical issue of "to have or not to have". Represented by Yan He and Wang Bi, "nothing" is regarded as the foundation of the world and the basis of world unity; critic Pei believes that something is self-generated, and what is self-generated is a body with hope.
③Exploring the ontology of the world is the basic content of his philosophy.
The aristocratic faction regards "nothing" as the basis of existence of "you" and puts forward the ontological idea of ??"taking nothing as the foundation"; while Guo Xiang advocates the "exclusive" theory and believes that "you" exists alone and does not require "nothing" as a own body.
(4) The philosophical purpose is to solve the relationship between Buddhism and nature. Wang Bi used the old method of interpreting Confucianism to annotate the "Book of Changes" and "The Analects of Confucius" to reconcile Confucianism and Taoism. He believes that Mingjiao is the "end" and nature is the "origin". Mingjiao is the inevitable manifestation of nature, and the two are related to the end and the body. Guo Xiang put forward the theory that Mingjiao is nature, and believed that Taoist nature is consistent with Confucian Mingjiao. Ruan Ji and Ji Kang put forward the idea of ??"letting nature take its course", showing an anti-Confucian tendency.
⑤ Adopt the method of "forgetting the words when you are so proud". In view of the complicated interpretation methods of Han Confucianism, Wang Bi, Guo Xiang, etc. He emphasized the importance of grasping the meaning when demonstrating issues, and opposed being obsessed with words and images, and proposed the methods of "forgetting words when one is too proud" and "sending lyrical messages".
⑥ Take "identification of names and analysis of principles" as its philosophical thinking form. Emphasizing the distinction between names and principles, being good at conceptual analysis and reasoning, and distinguishing names and principles are one of the basic characteristics of metaphysicians' thinking forms.
As far as its philosophical category is concerned, metaphysics can be called "learning by doing". To put it simply, "climbing to the top" is not only an abstract meaning, but also a vivid explanation and development of some abstract content.
In terms of its popular era, metaphysics can also be called Wei and Jin metaphysics. Metaphysics originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and became popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was closely related to the society at that time. To put it bluntly, during the Romance of the Three Kingdoms of Wei and Jin, we saw the Three Kingdoms standing in opposition to one another. You hit me, and I hit you. If you lived in that era, you can imagine that people and intellectuals at that time felt insecure all the time, so it was easy for the society at that time to talk about theories as their main activity to temporarily satisfy the spiritual world and escape from such cruel reality. . There is one word that can sum up the characteristics of metaphysics: the spirit of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the character of Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The combination of these two reasons is destined to be metaphysical, with both a mysterious and profound side and the function of satisfying the spiritual world and comforting the soul.
Later, the connotation of metaphysics was continuously expanded and enriched by later alchemists. There are five major systems: mountain, medicine, life, divination, and fortune-telling. The ideas of these metaphysical systems are all borrowed from the Yin and Yang theory of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, but these ideas are not directly borrowed, mainly because of the rise of Taoism in the Han Dynasty. When improving his own ideological system, in addition to citing the Tao Te Ching as a classic, he also enriched the Yin and Yang theory and the Five Elements of Virtue. Therefore, the relationship between metaphysics and Taoism is very deep, and it can be said that they are both.
The mountains contain the secrets of nourishing the mind and keeping fit, including three parts: metaphysics practice, health preservation, and meditation. "Xuan Dian" has the deepest philosophical color. It mainly integrates the thoughts of military legalists and Taoists to form the doctrines of later generations of Huang Lao, and uses it to understand the mysteries of the universe and human body functions. And health care is Qigong and Taoist alchemy. The methods of secret cultivation include spells, suppression, praying for stars, martial arts, etc. , that is, using exercise and the unity of spirit and soul to improve the physical and mental state. There are also metaphysics sects that divide mountains into five methods: immortality, Taoism, illusion, spirit protection, and fighting. And its scope does not depart from the above three parts.