Why were the ancient ancestors of China so wise?

I. Seven-day rhythm of human body rhythm

The biological clock of the human body was discovered in modern times in the west. The circadian rhythm, seven-day rhythm, four-season rhythm, annual rhythm, sixty-year rhythm and three-hundred and sixty-year rhythm of human physiology and pathology were described in detail in Huangdi Neijing written by China 2,500 years ago.

As far as the seven-day rhythm is concerned, Zhang Zhongjing wrote in Treatise on Febrile Diseases that if the exogenous wind is cold, even if it is not treated, as long as there are no complications or complications, it will generally heal itself in seven days. If seven days is not good, the course of disease will be extended to multiple of seven, 14 days or 2 1 day. This rule is called the seven-day rhythm.

The pregnancy cycle of animals and humans is a multiple of 7.

Chickens hatch eggs: 7X3=2 1 day

Cat pregnancy: 7X9=63 days

Rabbit pregnancy: 7X4=28 days.

Tiger pregnancy: 7X 15= 105 days.

Human pregnancy: 7X40=280 days.

How is the 7-day rhythm formed? It is formed by the interaction between the sun and the moon. The lunar calendar (the traditional calendar in China) has 28 days in a month and four tides in a month. 28 divided by 4 is 7 days. Because human ancestors came from the ocean, most of the human body is made up of water, so the 7-day rhythm of the human body can also be regarded as the tidal law, which is the unity of man and nature.

China's traditional calendars (lunar calendar and lunar calendar) are still very useful. Sometimes at night, I often teach my son to judge the date according to the size of the moon, which is basically not bad at all. The little guy of the 24 solar terms Song can recite it from an early age and farm according to the solar terms, which the solar calendar can't do.

Second, people are natural things and must follow the laws of nature.

Therefore, human beings need different diets in different seasons to adjust the balance of yin and yang in the body. The human body, like nature, follows the laws of spring hair, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage.

Third, how is everyone's personality formed?

A person's character is determined by the innate and acquired gains and losses of the five internal organs and meridians of the human body. The pathological changes of five zang-organs meridians will affect and change a person's personality, and the deficiency of congenital and acquired meridians will also affect the formation of a person's personality. Long-term partial eating of sweet and sour or one of the grains will also change a person's character.

The change of internal organs can change your character, and then change your appearance. Conversely, you can judge your visceral lesions by the changes in your appearance. Viscera and appearance are both inside and outside, just like the process of eggs hatching into chickens. Internal and external relations, both exterior and interior.

Therefore, Chinese medicine can judge the lesions inside your body by listening, listening and asking according to your appearance. A high-level person can judge the gains and losses of your internal organs by your appearance, and judge your character and character by the gains and losses of your internal organs. The mystery lies in fortune telling. People's personality affects visceral diseases: anger hurts the liver, likes hurting the lungs, thinking hurts the spleen, and fears hurting the kidney, and vice versa. Regulating the five internal organs can change personality, but fate and face can't.

Fourth, why should we cultivate ourselves? Why does 1 say that "the virtue of self-cultivation is true"?

Laozi said: the virtue of self-cultivation is true. Through self-cultivation, you can change your personality and regulate your internal organs, so as to achieve "physical" and "spiritual" health. Physical and mental health can regulate your internal organs, which determine your character and words and deeds. Its virtue is real. Often the brain can make up for the lack of face.

Can students nowadays be called scholars?

In ancient times, when people said "scholar", they often represented educated people. Can students nowadays be called "people who have read books"? Students who have studied for more than ten years now are more like "scholars" than those who have studied traditional culture for two years. This is a question of educational content. Now people who abandon traditional culture don't know that "self-cultivation is the foundation of education"!

Everything has a root and a destination, and cultivation is the foundation of education.

The ancients did not learn knowledge, but had a sequence and background. Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. Learn "benevolence, righteousness and propriety" first, and then "wisdom". Without virtue, just pursuing "wisdom" may be a kind of destruction to mankind. If you have "wisdom", talk about "faith", not telling everyone about "faith", but having judgment.

5. How can I cultivate myself?

There are many methods: reading classic subsets, music, labor, sports, acupuncture, Chinese medicine conditioning, diet, and ancient people's cultivation are all aspects: ceremony, music, shooting, imperial, books, and numbers. Let's talk about music.

6. Why did Confucius advocate the ritual and music system of the Zhou Dynasty? 1 Why did ancient gentlemen regard The Book of Songs as one of the required classics?

Nowadays, people don't understand the ancient way of "harmony between man and nature", and they don't know the specific methods of self-cultivation. Even when it comes to "harmony between man and nature", the understanding is very superficial, and the Book of Songs is regarded as a pediatrics.

In fact, The Book of Songs contains profound knowledge. The book of songs can regulate the five zang-fu organs, and Taoism has a "six-character formula" for health preservation, among which the "six-character formula" can regulate the five zang-fu organs:

"Hush" prescription (regulating hepatobiliary diseases)

"Ha" prescription (regulating heart and small intestine)

"Hu" prescription (regulating spleen and stomach)

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Formula of "Blowing" (Kidney and Bladder Diseases)

"Xi" formula

In fact, many modal particles in ancient poems and articles, including The Book of Songs, have this function, such as:, zhi, hu, zhe, ye, wu, hu, ai and ya. Therefore, reading the Book of Songs and Songs of the South is beneficial to physical and mental health, indirectly regulating the five internal organs, and achieving the effect of self-cultivation.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, China's music was very prosperous and popular.

More importantly, the Book of Songs can be sung, with music and tunes. Unfortunately, these songs have been lost. Music can cultivate sentiment, change personality and regulate internal organs. Music therapy is only known in the west now, and the ancients in China knew it thousands of years ago. From the Book of Songs, Chu Ci, Han Fu to Tang Poetry and Song Ci, all can be sung with music and tunes.

Music can enlighten the mind.

Music can not only regulate people's internal organs, achieve the effect of self-cultivation, but also enlighten the mind, which is also the reason why China invented and created before the ancient Song Dynasty. Although it destroyed the traditional culture of China and practiced backward nomadic culture in Qing Dynasty, the degeneration of its music was also one of the reasons for its ignorance and malaise. The same is true abroad, and the Renaissance in the West is also accompanied by the rise of classical music.

Not all music can cultivate one's morality! What is a ritual collapse?

It is a common phenomenon that music can enlighten the mind, but not all music can cultivate self-cultivation. The reason why the rites and music system of the Zhou Dynasty can cultivate one's self-cultivation lies in that it is a kind of "rites and music", not a decadent voice, but it has been lost. His loss of contact is related to the war damage of Qin Shihuang, a semi-barbarian and semi-Chinese Qin dynasty. Having said that, some people may ask whether "Rite and Music" is out-of-touch music. This is a misunderstanding. Take the Book of Songs as an example: "My fair lady, a gentleman is fond of things, but he can't get what he wants, and he turns around", which also includes the emotional pleasure of men and women, but what is important is "seeking it with courtesy" rather than "lust".

This is different from Song Ci in Song Dynasty. Although the music in the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, it was mostly a brothel minor, and the society was characterized by extravagance and corruption, unlike the righteous in Tang poetry. However, Su Shi's heroic ci style was rejected by literati, so the Song Dynasty was full of femininity and lack of masculinity, which was also reflected in its military war. However, due to the extremely developed music in the Song Dynasty, the IQ of people in that dynasty was generally high.

Now people gradually realize that music is enlightening, so prenatal education is gradually popularized. Many scientists are also inspired by music, and some serious music can also educate westerners. But many decadent voices are not good for self-cultivation, and some music makes people commit adultery and do bad things. After the Zhou dynasty, people often said that the ceremony collapsed and the music was bad, but what does this mean? Later generations basically don't understand. Look at my explanation, and you will really understand this sentence.

Confucius said, "In the prosperous times, poetry is the foundation of ceremony and joy."

Seven, self-cultivation from the fetus, with a lifetime.

Listening to good music in prenatal education can not only enlighten the mind, but also make the fetus develop healthily physically and mentally. After birth, you should "sleep in your head", sleep with your head straight and have good facial features. The five senses will not only have a good appearance, but also give children a good personality. Listening to concerts is more efficient in learning, and listening to concerts produces layers of associations, which is the best conditioning for brain cells (wearing headphones is better, but it may affect hearing).

Eight, martial arts training can also achieve the effect of self-cultivation.

Why do you say that the way of civil and military is loose? Because they can cultivate themselves, but in different ways. People who are naturally weak and timid can adjust their internal organs and increase their courage through martial arts exercise. Practicing martial arts will increase their vitality. In fact, the most important thing in treating diseases is targeted physical exercise to achieve the effect of strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits. As long as it is not an emergency, exercise should be given priority to, supplemented by drugs. However, because sports don't make money, the society has gradually formed a drug-based society, such as Yijinjing and Wuqinxi, and no one has studied it.

Nine, labor is the Taoist way of self-cultivation 1 four bodies are not diligent, regardless of grain.

Here's a little story. When Confucius traveled around the world, Luz once got lost and met a farmer. Luz asked, "Have you seen my teacher?" ? The farmer replied, how can you call a teacher if you are not diligent and don't care about food?

Now people generally explain that this is the criticism of Confucius by the working people. This is a sign of ignorance, because people nowadays don't know how to cultivate themselves.

There is actually a "dispute between Confucianism and Taoism" here. Look at the reaction of Confucius behind, and you can find the clue.

Lutz caught up with Confucius and told him that Confucius said, "This must be a cultivated hermit." Tell Luz to come back and visit him.

People nowadays don't understand why Confucius' common words are so exaggerated. Confucius is well versed in Confucianism and Taoism. He once studied Laozi and lamented that Laozi's knowledge was profound and the dragon could not see the end.

2 What is the Taoist philosophy of self-cultivation?

Taoism cultivates itself by labor, pays attention to "seeking all things from the inside and all things from the outside", and understands the way of philosophy by observing all things, which is the great wisdom of "learning by things" in University.

Taoism has an epiphany on the laws of the universe from the growth of all things. Taoism believes that the universe is circular, and saints should participate in the cycle of the universe, so the four bodies should be diligent, the five grains should supplement the five internal organs, cultivate self-cultivation through labor and eating the five grains, and adopt the spirit of heaven and earth to support the small universe of the human body. Therefore, according to Taoism, a teacher can't be called a teacher if he is not diligent in the four bodies and does not care about the whole grain, and he can't reach the real realm of self-cultivation and enlightenment. Laozi said: A gentleman strives for self-improvement.

3 farming civilization gives birth to philosophy

This is also an advanced civilization that China has no religion since ancient times, but is based on a philosophical height.

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It has been said many times in the Book of Songs that a true gentleman will not get something for nothing-he is a gentleman, and he is not a vegetarian.

X. national costume

Why do you want to restore traditional costumes? Clothing also has an impact on self-cultivation.

1 why did Confucius pay so much attention to clothes?

Different clothes will affect your psychology, which will affect your personality.

Confucius once said: Without Guan Zhong, we would be hairy barbarians. Why did Confucius pay so much attention to clothes? Because clothing will affect people's character, just as the environment will affect people's behavior. For example, if we don't throw up on the spotless marble floor, then clothes will affect people's mental outlook and people's views and attitudes towards you. Ugly and dirty clothes can make people feel inferior.

Nowadays, people regard the costumes of the Qing Dynasty as the traditional costumes of China, which is really a disgrace to the Chinese nation! Traditional Hanfu is elegant and free-spirited, elegant and restrained. It can make people elegant and give people a good mental outlook. Clothing has an influence on people's character and the attitudes of people around them. Wearing cheongsam, bikini and shorts will be lewd and not stable and dignified. Look at the women's clothes now, can you show them? This is influenced by western sexy culture, so for thousands of years.

What's so good about ancient steamed buns?

As far as men's bun is concerned, it makes people feel refreshed, refreshed, and will give up their troubles and be full of energy. It is also a massage to the head acupuncture points and meridians in the process of forced winding and twisting. It is no exaggeration to say that this kind of bun of the ancients can improve people's essence and spirit.

A person's clothing will affect a person's mental outlook, and a nation's national clothing will also affect his culture.

XI。 Why was China far ahead of the world in ancient times?

Huangdi Neijing said: "Man is related to heaven and earth and corresponds to the sun and the moon." Unfortunately, people who abandoned traditional culture don't understand it now. Harmony between man and nature is great wisdom, so we should ask the canal to be so clear, because there is flowing water at the source.

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