On the five elements of yin and yang of 12 earthly branch.

I am reading the Book of Changes (nan huaijin), which contains this passage. By the way, I copied it. There should be two pictures in the middle, but they can't be mapped here. Look carefully, it doesn't matter if there is no picture. Very clear.

Five elements culture, the so-called five elements, is gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The first thing to pay attention to when studying it now is that fortune tellers think that walking is absolutely wrong. When we read the Book of Changes, we read the sentence "Tian Xing Jian", which means movement, that is, "kinetic energy". The biggest relationship between matter in the universe lies in this kinetic energy. There are five kinds of "kinetic energy", represented by gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Like hexagrams, they are traditional symbols, so don't take them too seriously. The so-called "gold" is not gold, and "water" is different from the water in a cup. Don't think that the five elements are five substances. The five elements of ancient culture: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, are modern earth culture, and the five stars outside the earth have a great relationship with us. Now explain these five words first.

Gold, which is solid and solidified, is not a classification of modern science in ancient times. At that time, all the solid attributes in the material world were represented by gold characters.

Wood represents trees, grass and the function and root of life. After the vegetation is cut down, as long as the roots are left, they will grow back the next year. Bai Juyi's poem: "the endless grass on the grassland, with the seasons coming and going, has never been completely swallowed up by wildfire, and they have grown taller in the spring breeze." This is the role of wood, especially powerful and fast. Wood represents the life function of hair growth.

Water represents the function of flow and endless flow.

Fire represents heat energy.

The earth represents the earth itself.

Therefore, it is called five elements because these five things are changing with each other, and these five physics in this material world are influencing each other and changing greatly. This change is called life and gram.

Generation of five elements

When it comes to life and grams, we study the Book of Changes and all know the comprehensive hexagrams. Comprehensive divination tells us that everything in the world has both positive and negative forces: fate and grams. In academic thought, it means that fortune depends on fortune, right and wrong, success and failure, benefit and harm, good and evil, and everything is relatively mutually beneficial. For example, in the Taoist classic "Yin Fu Jing" handed down from Jiang Taigong, there is a saying: "Good is born in harm". For example, if a father beats his son, it hurts, which is "injury", but the purpose is to educate the child into an adult, which is "kindness comes from injury". The same is true of leaders to subordinates. This sentence has far-reaching significance. There is an old saying in rural China that giving a bucket of rice is a benefactor and giving a load of rice is an enemy. Helping a friend means helping him when he is in trouble. He is always grateful, but he is never satisfied with too much help. Usually, you will give your good friends a lot of benefits, but those who accept your benefits will eventually oppose you. Therefore, leaders should pay special attention to this. A person's failure, often fails in the most trusted and closest people. There are many such examples in history. This kind of person doesn't necessarily mean to hurt people who are kind to him. Napoleon, for example, is considered unworthy to be a hero in the eyes of two people, one is his own wife and the other is his old friend. Because you are too close, stay together for too long, and have different ideas, you will unconsciously do some harmful things. This is both good and bad, and often mutually causal, so it is very important to say that "good is born of harm". And its principle, that is, the law gives birth to grams, the living also grams people, good and harm, two opposites coexist, there is no absolute side. Nowadays, young people know that when they are in love, the deeper they love, the deeper they hate. This is the truth that "good is born in harm" and it is also the law of birth and death. The causes of the five elements can be expressed in the following two modes:

The arrow in Figure A indicates that they are interrelated, that is, they were born in a clockwise direction, and became wood fire, fire earth, primary gold, golden water and aquatic wood.

The arrow in Figure B represents the phase diagram. The positions of the five elements are the same as those in figure 1, and the direction indicated by the arrow is also clockwise. The arrow in the phase diagram points to one's neighbor, while the arrow in the phase diagram jumps from one position to the next, so it becomes Muketu, Tuke Water, Shuike Fire, Huoke Gold and Jin Kemu.

Orientation of five elements

The above two circles are just for the convenience of explaining the relationship between the five elements. The orientation of the five elements is not as good as the above figure, but like the following orientation map of the five elements:

fire

Mutuquan

water

The above five-line orientation map (be sure to remember) is oriental wood (please pay special attention to the orientation in the map, which is based on the orientation of the Book of Changes, not the orientation of modern map drawing). This positioning is very reasonable. We were also mined in the Ming Dynasty, when there was no geology. How do we know where there are mines? Of course, some local residents found it, but most of them judged the center of the five elements by the truth and falsehood of the eight diagrams and the five elements. Western gold, in Tibet, the farther west, the more gold is hidden. Oriental wood, plants grow hair easily, and are heated by the sun early. Fire in the south, hot climate. There is water in the north and the most snow and ice. At first glance, it seems that the five elements are in a mess. If you look closely, you can't say it's unreasonable. How did the ancients discover this rule? Take gold as an example:

This thousand-character essay written by Jin is a wonderful text, with 1000 different words, including astronomy, geography, physics, politics and so on. When I was young, it didn't seem to matter. It was really a great work, including the phrase "Jinsheng Lishui", not Lishui County, Zhejiang Province. Lishui is a place with a lot of water. Any place where gold is hidden must be the rain belt area. Just arrived in Taiwan Province Province, I saw the Gold and Copper Bureau and asked where Jinshan Ruifang produced gold. I said there must be a lot of rain there, and sure enough it often rains in Keelung, Jinshan and Ruifang. This is "Jinsheng Lishui", where there is a lot of rain.

Jin Kemu, of course, it's not surprising that you should use an iron tool or a saw to saw wood. In ancient times, if there was a big tree in front of the door, considering the bad feng shui and the trouble of cutting it down, it would be better to let it die and hit it in the middle with a big nail, and the tree would soon wither. This is the phenomenon in Jin Kemu.

Another philosophical truth, such as gold begets water, said in ancient times: "Water is the son of gold." Water is the son of gold, so aquatic wood, wood is the son of water, wood makes a fire, fire makes soil, soil makes fire, soil makes gold, and gold makes soil.

Dick is passed down from generation to generation. Once upon a time, there was a joke that an old man slapped his grandson, and when his son saw it, he slapped himself. Grandfather who beat his grandson asked his son why he beat himself. The son said, "You can beat my son, why can't I beat your son?" This is also close to the five elements, and so is it. It is a rule that every generation changes every Wednesday. Ke sheng, grace breeds harm, and harm breeds grace. From the perspective of military philosophy, World War I can promote the progress of human civilization, so sometimes I feel that war is nothing to be afraid of, which is equivalent to a haircut. When the hair grows, it will look good after shaving. Many friends talk about military philosophy, and this five-element rule also makes sense. So do the laws of physics. At some point, it is necessary to clean up before creating something new. This is the law of the universe. The orientation of the five elements is very important for us to study material relations, so we must remember it.

Nan huaijin->; Miscellaneous sayings about the Book of Changes-> the third part

the third part

Tiangan Wuxing

In addition to the five elements, there are also branches. There is no secret to learning divination from the Book of Changes. It is nothing more than the five elements, focusing on the five elements, not gossip. It is another system to really break things with hexagrams, so strictly speaking, the five elements and gossip are separated. But for thousands of years, everyone has been mixed up.

What is introduced now is Tiangan culture, which is also very old. We study the Book of Changes and the development history of China culture, and know that Tiangan culture is much older than the Book of Changes. Heavenly stems and earthly branches, we can find it from Oracle Bone Inscriptions now, which shows that the origin of this culture is very early. Astronomy is the earliest development of China people. When it reaches the highest level, it is represented by ten symbols. These ten symbols are named Tiangan, also known as "Tianwo". But "Tiangan" is a term used after the Han Dynasty. In fact, we should use "Tianwo" instead of "Tiangan". Heavenly dryness is the law of five elements, which means: "In this solar system, the earth and the outer planets interfere with each other." In modern geophysics, it is said that the radiation between the earth and various planets is mutual absorption and interaction. For example, the radiation of solar energy has a great influence on human beings on earth, especially those who study communication, electronics and space science. We in China have long known that the movement of this celestial body and the movement of the material world are represented by wood, fire, earth, gold and water, which explains the mutual development. However, with the progress of human culture, this five-element rule is not enough, so our ancestors discovered the dual functions of the five elements. In the material world, celestial bodies use ten symbols, namely, A, B, C, D, E, Kyrgyzstan, G, letter, man and ghost, and form the following patterns:

Tian gan Wu xing Pei

When you look at the pattern on the last page and match it with the orientation pattern of the first five lines, you can know the wood in the east, the fire in the south, the gold in the west, the water in the north and the Wuji soil in the middle.

Here I would like to ask, the east and wood are both a direction or a kinetic energy. Why do you use symbols a and b to represent it? There is also a rule, which is very useful in China's fortune telling. I don't approve of learning fortune telling for the sake of fortune telling. However, I found that this set of laws of China's fortune-telling contains many scientific and philosophical truths. Unfortunately, because of ancient political thoughts, he was unwilling to develop science, so he had to develop this good law in this respect. But fortunately, there are fortune-tellers in the Jianghu who can abide by this rule. On the other hand, they are really great. So some people say that fortune-telling is superstition. I asked them if they understood it, but they didn't. How terrible and arbitrary it is to charge something they don't understand with "superstition" and "deception". This set of rules has been circulated for thousands of years, and the people who really study it are first-rate smart people. Imagine that the first-rate smart people who have studied it for 4,000 years can deceive people, and they have their reasons. If you want to criticize it, you might as well study its deception first, and then say it is superstition, and then you can draw a conclusion. I haven't studied it myself, and I don't understand it. Consider it a deceptive superstition. This is the real superstition-superstition of your own arrogance. Unfortunately, no one pays attention to it now, there is no big investment, and there are not enough experimental equipment and places. Otherwise, if we do experiments, we can find that this law has many scientific reasons. Airplanes, for example, existed as early as the Warring States period, but they were unmanned aircraft without people and made of wood. During the Jin Dynasty, someone made a bird. After it is released, it will fly in the air without human control and land in the same place at a certain time. There is evidence in history. Even China's musical instruments and some vessels that are still preserved, such as copper pots dripping water, were invented and manufactured according to this rule. At that time, there were no modern scientific formulas, but at that time, science was not developed with this set of laws. Why didn't China use this set of rules for scientific development in ancient times? This also has its reasons, because the more developed the material civilization, the higher people's desire, and the higher people's desire, the more chaotic the society, which is China's humanistic thought.

Tian gan yin yang

But this set of rules comes from science, such as Dong. Why are they represented by the words A and B? And become a tree? A wood is an element representing growth, and B wood is a representative of formation. In other words, Wood A represents the physics of hair growth, and Wood B represents the substance of formation. The same is true of C and D. C stands for the element of fire and D stands for the fire formed. Promise, Geng Xin and Nonggui are all the same. Moreover, there are yin and yang in the middle, for example, Jiamu is yang wood, Yibu is yin wood, C is yang fire, Ding is yin fire, Geng is yang gold, Xin is yin gold, Ren is yang water, decyl is yin water, E is yang soil and E is yin soil. For example, in traditional Chinese medicine, in Neijing, a woman's first menstrual period came. In ancient China, it was considered impolite to tell a woman's secret directly, so people said, "A woman is fourteen years old, and her days are ten days." Why not say "Ren Tian"? Because menstruation is watery and women are yin, it is called "Tiangui". If we integrate this set of things, we can find that it is not superstition, but science, at least in ancient China, and this kind of science has remained in human culture for many years.

When it comes to Tiangui, it involves Chinese medicine. As far as the human body is concerned, there is a book called A-B Classic, which is the most popular acupuncture at present, but many people have not made it clear. The representatives of various parts of the human body in TCM are wood liver, fire heart, golden lung, water kidney and soil spleen. Now I understand the relationship between the five elements and the internal organs, so there is something wrong with the lung, and the kidney must be deficient, so people with lung disease blush, but the kidney water is insufficient and the internal heat rises. When the lung disease is quite serious, the renal pelvis is particularly large, which is kidney deficiency. Therefore, it is difficult to learn Chinese medicine. Besides paying attention to the individual functions of the five internal organs, it also pays attention to the physiological functions and pathological factors that interact with each other, that is, the principle of generating grams. On the other hand, western medicine treats headaches and foot pains. Headache is only a symptom of the disease, not the root cause. Any viscera may have headache symptoms due to the accumulation of pathogenic factors, so smart Chinese medicine pays attention to gasification. For example, people with diabetes belong to the disease of kidney water, but it must be related to heart fire, and the heart will also be affected and problems will occur. This is the reason why the five elements can produce symptoms (especially here, each "line" is related to the other four "lines", such as ". So Chinese medicine can stand up, and so can acupuncture. In the medical theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the upper patient is treated, the lower patient is treated, the left patient is treated right, the right patient is treated left, the sick at home is treated externally, and the foreign patient is treated. For example, Chinese medicine says that the liver is born on the left, while western medicine is wrong. In fact, there is nothing wrong with TCM, because TCM is not talking about material form, but gasification. Chinese medicine says that the liver is born on the left, the liver belongs to wood, the wood is in the east, and the east is on the left. This is the gasification of five elements, so it is right that the liver is born on the left. It can be seen that people must read the Huangdi Neijing and understand it before they can know how to keep in good health and how to cultivate monasteries.

12 earthly branch

The cooperation between the five elements and the heavenly stems contains many things, and then it is different from the cooperation with the earthly branches. There are twelve branches: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Some people in the underground division write "ground skills", which means division of labor, but it is actually a "division" and a supporting division. The role of the earth itself, that is, the role of the moon and the earth in the solar system, and the relationship between solar terms will be introduced in detail later.

First of all, there were two major medical schools in ancient China. The way to preserve one's health is to emphasize one's stomach and one's kidney. Most of all diseases come from the stomach, but in my experience, doctors in the south attach importance to the stomach, especially the elderly, and doctors in the north attach importance to the kidney. Young people should also pay attention to the maintenance of kidneys. Young people have kidney deficiency. After middle age, all the symptoms came. The more open sex education is, the more diseases young people get. The reason is kidney deficiency, so you must take good care of yourself.

With regard to earthly branches, if we only study the academic thoughts and principles of Zhouyi, it is unnecessary to study the five elements and the main branches. In order to understand the relationship between the I Ching and the Eight Diagrams used in astronomy and geography in China for thousands of years, we must first understand the five elements. A science professor wrote to ask some questions abroad, because there was a book recently published abroad, which thought that there was a hole in the north and south poles of the earth, there was another world in the hole, there were people, and flying saucers also came from the center of the earth, and so on. These are all questions related to the Book of Changes. I wrote back and told him that it was not surprising. China people have long said that the earth is active. As for whether there are humans in the center of the earth, that is another story. Regarding the connection between the north and south poles of the earth, Taoism said this thousands of years ago, and said that all parts of the earth are connected. These words are proved by books, but all of us didn't notice them. It is also said that there is a hole behind the Huangdi Mausoleum, which can lead to Nanjing. However, there is another school in the west that says that all human beings are from outer space. This statement also existed in ancient China, and so did Taoism. It is said that the ancient Panwang also descended from the sky, and so did Buddhism. These Taoist theories can be found in Taoist collections.

The above story is to show that the five elements thought is absolutely related to primitive astronomy and geophysics, and it was only used in divination and fortune telling, just because our past culture did not develop scientifically.

I have introduced Tiangan before, and now I will introduce Dizhi. As mentioned above, the earthly branches are twelve earthly branches: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. What is the earthly branch? From a modern point of view, it is the earth itself, which runs in the solar system and interferes with other planets. There is a kind of power supporting it invisibly, which is called the earth branch.

We know that there are ten days of dryness, which are the two poles of the five elements, that is, the changes of yin and yang of the five elements. And the branch is six, which is twelve formed by the change of yin and yang. As for the origin of these names, they have little to do with the Book of Changes, and they are another theoretical system in China's traditional culture, as mentioned earlier. As for the definition of every word in heavenly stems and earthly branches, there are many explanations, which one is completely correct, and it is difficult to draw a conclusion. For example, zi is the phenomenon of all things happening, and the fifth is the meaning of the hub. Each has its own explanation, so we won't discuss it for the time being. In addition, based on the history of China's cultural development, from the point of view of military philosophy, we can see the top ten heavenly stems of A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and some people interpret them as the representatives of the top ten ancient weapons, such as A is a sharp weapon on a wooden pole and B is a knife. But we can't agree on which statement is correct.

Dizhi and Zodiac

There are twelve earthly branches, representing twelve months. What exactly is the earthly branch? It is the name of the zodiac in astronomy. The so-called "palace" is part of it; The so-called "ecliptic" is the circle in which the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, which is called the ecliptic plane. This ecliptic is different every month. For example, if we look at the sky at night, each constellation comes from the East, with a total of 28 stars (China has the most advanced knowledge of ancient astronomy), and each month of these 28 nights is different on the ecliptic plane; Therefore, according to this phenomenon, it is abstractly summarized into twelve parts, which are represented by twelve words. In fact, this is an astronomical phenomenon and has become an abstract knowledge, which constitutes the position and role of fortune telling in later generations. This set of knowledge seems simple now, but if we really explore it with our heart, we can see that our ancestors' cultural wisdom and philosophy of science have developed to the highest point in ancient times; Because the scientific figures are too huge and complicated, the wisdom of ordinary people is not enough for such a genius. So I simplified it and expressed it with five elements, heavenly stems and earthly branches, so that everyone could understand it. Only when culture reaches the highest point can it become the most simplified. But its disadvantage is that future generations only know how to use it, but they don't know why.

This abstract noun actually contains something and a lot of knowledge; It's a pity that our descendants only use it for fortune telling.

Sixty Flowers and Historical Textual Research

Our sixty flowers are based on branches, such as Jia Zi, Yi Chou, Bing Yin and Ding Mao. In this way, when the branches of the earth coincide, it can represent the celestial bodies in the solar system and the earth to produce various changes; Among them, the meteorological changes are the biggest, the most significant and the easiest to see. Various changes are different, so it is matched with trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches, trunk branches and trunk branches.

This 60-year cooperation is of little use to people today, but is it good or not? You can see it later. Good. It records the movement of celestial bodies, making a big turn in 60 years, regardless of precession (that is, the so-called degree in astronomy, that is, the ancient sun and the earth walked once a day for 365 degrees and a quarter of a year; Taking 360 days as a year, there is still a surplus, and the surplus accumulates into holes and months, which is the calculation of the lunar calendar. The Gregorian calendar has 7 months of 3 1 day every year, because the numbers are the same in different ways), but the numbers of the universe are not bad for hundreds of millions of years, which is a great law. Take a look at the history of China. Every dynasty has changed, the emperor has changed, and the year number has also changed. However, the age of 60-year-old flowers is fixed and will inevitably change every 60 years.

If this rule is extended, it will have more uses. For example, when Tang Yao ascended the throne, that is, the day when he became emperor, it was Chen Jianian. Later, Shao Kangjie's algorithm and general algorithm are based on this branch, which is well documented in history; When Yao was in power, there was a phenomenon of five stars linked with pearls, that is, gold, wood, fire, water and earth lined up in the sky, which had a certain astronomical phenomenon. At that time, the first 60 years were named Shangyuan Jiazi, the second 60 years were Zhongyuan Jiazi, the third 60 years were Xia Yuanjiazi, and the first * * was 180 years; Then expand, the first 180 year in Shangyuan, the second 180 year in Zhongyuan and the third 180 year in Xia Yuan, like a series of sets, neat and tight; Through the evolution of this Jiazi law and the Book of Changes, we can know how historical, social and cultural phenomena have changed over the years. Coupled with China's astronomy, it is a wonderful law discovered by China people. Calculating what words should come out can also be said to be the "harmony between man and nature" in Confucianism. According to the Book of Changes, this is bound to change, and things in the universe are bound to change at some point. As for what phenomenon? Understand this big law, and then from the hexagrams, we can know what will become a phenomenon. However, most people who know don't say it because they are afraid of revealing secrets; The ancients said, "It is unlucky to see a few fish clearly in the water, because the eyes are too strong.". Such people will suffer from cataracts even if they don't live long, because they use their eyes too much; You can't use too much wisdom. It's unlucky to be a prophet. Really high self-cultivation, foresight in everything, becoming ignorant, extremely intelligent and confused. This is something that a few cultured people can do, but ordinary people can't.

Now look at the earthly branches and arrange them in a circle:

Why is it painted round? Because the earth and celestial bodies are round.

12 Chinese zodiac signs

As for the zodiac signs of the twelve earthly branches, they are rat, ugly cow, silver tiger, hairy rabbit, Chen Long, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and porcupine. According to my research, this set of zodiac signs was handed down from India in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Twelve Indian Branches were not exactly the same as ours. They were all expressed by cultural abstract symbols and animals, and later became the interpretation of China culture. The child is a five-clawed mouse, and the odd number is yang; Ugliness belongs to cattle, because the cow's two hooves are yin, yin belongs to the tiger, and because the tiger has five claws, the hair belongs to the rabbit, because the rabbit has two lips and so on. It is said that it is so ordered, but "everything has a reason, and there is no evidence." According to the integration of ancient and modern books? The concept of "birds fly up to the sky on the 28th night, and the 12th day of the year is the beginning of the zodiac" is inferred from the bronze wares of the Western Han Dynasty and astrology of the Han tombs unearthed in recent years. It's quite possible.

Earthly branches and numerology

This set of great rules has evolved into elementary school questions, which are used for fortune telling, fortune telling, divination, and even for the investigation and judgment of murder cases. There is this knowledge in the Record of Unfair Remembrance. There is a six-red branch on the ground. From the front circle, we can see that the opposite ones are all rushing, such as zi and Wu, ugliness and no, yin and god, Mao and unitary, Chen and Xu, and division and sea. It is not necessarily bad to rush, and some have to rush. It is relatively blunt, which is also the reason why the Book of Changes is wrong. In fact, the so-called rush is to come to the angle of the sun on the ecliptic for 28 nights, which is called rush; Contrary to the direction of the sun, this is called harmony. From the point of view of the circle, equality of status means harmony (such as harmony between children and ugliness, harmony between Yin and Hai, harmony between Mao and Xu, harmony between Chen and Xi, harmony between Chen and Shen, and the afternoon is a day, not June). Among the twelve branches, there are two or three combinations, and so on). We also have an idea here. Twenty-eight nights in the position of the zodiac, against the sun. Catch up is not an ugly word, but an obstacle.