Why the old advocate acceptance of northern culture

The north is the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and it is the birthplace and flourishing place of Confucian culture

China's academic circles have unanimously recognized that Confucian culture is the culture of the north. And academics have "heavy yellow (emperor) light Yan (emperor), heavy (yellow) river light (Yangtze) river, heavy north light south, heavy Confucian light Tao, heavy dragon light phoenix" academic atmosphere. Among them that Confucian culture for the northern culture is one of the main components, such as the north for Confucianism, the south for the Road; the north is the dragon, the south is the phoenix; the north is the Yellow Emperor, the south is the Yan Emperor .....

In fact, it is not, in our traditional culture, the five elements occupy an important position. The south is "fire", the north is "water". The Yellow Emperor was in the center of the world, and he was the "earth". Confucianism was founded in the Zhou Dynasty, which emphasized "fire". The sun is the pole of "fire", so the Zhou dynasty to the sun as the foundation of culture, advocating "Chong Yang devaluation of yin", "male superiority and female inferiority", to the "Zhou Yi" of "Li Gua "Li Gua" of the "Zhou Yi" for the "rites". "Li Gua" is the southern hexagram, its trigram is "fire". Two "Li" hexagrams overlap, that is, the two "fire" overlap, is the Chu ancestor Yandi; "Li Gua" is the sun, the sun's cycle of rise and fall, is the Chu ancestor Chong Li. Therefore, the "away from the trigram" as if it were the national emblem of Chu. The Zhou Dynasty worship "fire" to Chu culture as the source, Confucius recorded the Zhou rituals "described but not made", so the source of Confucian culture is based on the Chu culture as the root.

This theory is proved by the example of the Qin and Han Dynasties: the Qin Dynasty revered "water", and ruled the country with harsh laws, and "water" and "fire" were incompatible, so its "burning of books and burying of scholars" was not a good idea. "Burning books and pitting Confucianism"; Han Dynasty advocates "fire", and its "dismissed the hundred schools, revere only Confucianism". The two dynasties connected, the cultural system of tit-for-tat, which can be illustrated that Confucian culture is not the northern culture.

There is also the history of "Confucianism and law" can also prove this theory