Solar terms and astrology

Time concept of China's cultural astrological calendar

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Distinguish Year, Month, Day and Time: According to the data in Shangshu, China's history and culture, starting from Tang Yao, passing through Yu Shun and arriving in Yu Xia, has long been adhering to the ancient tradition and taking the lunar calendar as the benchmark to determine the time standard. A year is divided into twelve months; Each month is divided into thirty days; Twelve o'clock every day-Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai; It was once divided into three quarters. This concept of time in the astrological calendar has a long history, and it is said that it can be traced back to the era of the Yellow Emperor. Whether it is credible or not is another matter. But they are all based on the lunar (moon), so the twelve symbols representing twelve o'clock are called "earthly branches". Expand the application of "earthly branch" symbol, and it can also be used as the code of years, such as sub-year and ugly year, and then the periodic laws of sub-year and ugly year.

The difference between the twenty-four solar terms: the ancient "astrological calendar" is also based on the movement of the sun in celestial bodies. So China used to use the lunar calendar; Actually, it's a combination of yin and yang. In addition to the benchmark of one year 12 months and January 30 days, according to the movement of the sun on celestial bodies and the change and influence of the ground weather, 12 months are ruled by four seasons. It is also equal to the four virtues of "Yuan, Heng, Reason and Truth" as stated in the Book of Changes. In addition to the twelve months of the four seasons, it is further divided into 24 solar terms, such as "Winter Solstice Day, Slight Cold (December Festival), Great Cold, Rain in beginning of spring (January Festival), Spring Equinox (February Festival), Tomb-Sweeping Day (March Festival), Xiaoman in Grain Rain, Long Summer (April Festival) and Miscanthus (May Festival). The standard of these 24 solar terms is based on the relationship between the sun and the earth's meteorology, not on the profit and loss of the lunar calendar (month).

The division of five phases and six qi: except that the four seasons are twelve months ahead, two? Admire? Hey? Loyalty? Five days is a period, "three periods are one interest" and "six periods are one section" are the benchmarks for seasonal climate division. According to this rule, by extension, we can redraw hexagrams in 30 years as a generation and 60 years as a second generation, which is in line with the Book of Changes. Reduced to a very small size, it can be used in the subtle relationship of twelve hours, minutes and seconds a day.

This ancient astronomy, meteorology and astrology, as well as the establishment of calendars, are based on the profit and loss of the lunar (moon), but they also conform to the latitude of the sun on celestial bodies and its seasonal changes with the moon and the earth. But in addition to these, China's ancient astronomical astrology extended "time" to the "space" of celestial bodies and the universe, and explored the world life theory of cosmic time, which was not only incomplete, but also really lacking. It was only after the Qin and Han Dynasties that the formula of astronomical astrology was gradually formed, and the theory of "the division of stars and stars" in China's geography was barely formed. It can be said that it is a unified concept of "time" and "space" in China ancient culture. Unfortunately, this theory of the unification of time and space is still confined to China, and the "time" and "space" beyond the four seas are still unknown. Besides, the theory of "the division of the stars" is also a far-fetched idea in China's geography, and it has no good basis. When young students are reading Chinese, they see the so-called "wings of the stars" in Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Teng-ting, which is derived from this concept of "the stars are divided into images".

Shao Zi's Development of "Time" and "Space"

During the hundreds of years from the end of Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the concepts of "time" and "emptiness" in Buddhism were introduced into China, which made the world outlook in China culture leap to a new realm. Unfortunately, the cultural tentacles of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties have been talking about metaphysical rationality in the field of "literary philosophy" or "philosophical literature", without paying attention to this exotic worldview, and further exploring the subtle relationship between the change of cosmic physics and the evolution of personnel. What's more, people at that time were limited to the scope of knowledge and regarded it as absurd and illusory. (About the Buddhist world outlook and world outlook, we must make supplementary explanations in another monograph to be more detailed. It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the Buddhist concept of "success, living, evil and emptiness" was summed up in the beginning, and the ideas of "surplus, emptiness, elimination, growth" and "poverty, communication, change and transformation" in the Book of Changes were integrated, which constituted the "historical philosophy" and "change" in the Book of Changes. In fact, Shao Zi created the method of "Yi-ology of history" in Huang Shi. I think his original intention is to combine complexity with simplicity. I hope everyone can understand it and see it at a glance. Therefore, "knowing heaven", "know life" and "reflexive sincerity" are in line with the benevolence of heavenly heart. This is not a mystery. I hope that people in thousands of years will not be able to pass. However, after the comments of later scholars, Shao Zixue became more and more confused.

In Shao Kangjie's masterpiece A Quiet History of Huang Ji, the most basic concept is that he built the historical life of the human world on the principle of Li Yi's image number. Specify a simple and memorable formula. His naming of this formula. It is called "Yuan, Hui, Yun and Shi". Simply put, it is based on the year, month, day and time of the year. The so-called one yuan is the representative in one year. There are twelve months in a year, the beginning and the end of each month. The so-called dusk is when the sun and the moon meet, so it is called meeting. In other words, between one dollar, there are twelve meetings. Every month, the earth itself runs 30 times, so it will contain 30 luck in a moment. But there are twelve hours in a day, and each hour is thirty minutes. So summing up the twelfth and first is 30 points. Expand it and fill it up, which constitutes "30 years is a lifetime, 12, and * * * counts 360 years as luck. For the 30th National Games, * * * counts as 1,800 years, and for the 12th National Games, * * counts as 1 yuan for 129,600 years. " Monism is the cardinal number representing the formation of this world civilization to the end of its destruction. The evolution of the intermediate process is divided into twelve meetings from the beginning to the end, and each meeting has a change in the world. This concept is generally influenced by the Buddhist theory of "great robbery, middle robbery and small robbery" If it is listed as a formula, it will look like this:

30 (world) ×12× 30×12 =126900

However, this formula is not easy to remember for people without mathematical literacy. Therefore, it is easy to remember the twelve clubs in one yuan as symbols of numbers, such as Zi, Ugly, Yin and Mao. From the beginning to the end of the world, there are twelve meetings. Therefore, the concept of "born in children, born in ugliness, born in yin" was formed from Shao's theory of "Yuan, Hui, Yun and Shi" and became the concept of Yin and Yang scholars in later generations.

Shao Zi founded the theory of "Yuan, Hui, Yun and Shi", which is used to explain that since the beginning of the world, the last "Sea Fair" has reached 129,600 years. But the number of heaven and earth mentioned by Shao Zi is not the life span of the earth from birth to destruction. This number theory of "Yuan, Hui, Yun and Shi" is only roughly equivalent to the "small robbery" mentioned by Buddhism, which is the process from the formation to the destruction of human civilization in the world. Buddhism is only illustrated by human social activities such as "sword soldiers", "famine" and "plague". The minority children are represented by the combination of numbers and hexagrams. As for the theory of circulation, it is quite interesting, which is consistent with the principle of reincarnation.