What did the ancient gossip represent?

Bagua is a basic philosophical concept in ancient China, which comes from two aspects: First, China's ancient theory of Yin and Yang, the so-called "infinite leads to extreme, and extreme leads to Tai Chi, and Tai Chi leads to two instruments (namely Yin and Yang), and two instruments lead to four images (namely Shaoyang, Sun, Shaoyin and Taiyin), and the four images play eight diagrams and eight eight eight eight eight six hexagrams", which is called Fuxi Bagua, also called innate gossip; One is Zhou Wenwang's theory of "Gan Kun", which holds that the intersection of heaven and earth generates everything, and heaven is dry and earth is Kun. The other six hexagrams of gossip are their children: Zhen is the eldest male, Kan is the middle male, and Gen (pronounced gèn) is the young male; Xun (pronunciation: Xun) is the eldest daughter, divorced from the middle daughter, and got the girl, that is, the gossip, also known as the acquired gossip. The eight diagrams symbols usually appear together with the Taiji diagram, which represents the ultimate truth of China's traditional belief (Confucianism and Taoism)-"Tao".

In the Song Dynasty, Zhu wrote a rhyme to help children remember gossip symbols:

Dry three companies, Kun six broken;

Shake the jar and cover the bowl;

Empty in the middle and full in the middle;

Change the shortage, change the shortage, and break it.

The location of gossip:

Training for cadres

Leave the ridge

Zhen Kungen

Simple explanation: Shuo Gua says: "Heaven and earth are positioned, mountains and rivers are ventilated, thunder wind is thin, and water and fire are incompatible." Later generations often use this as the explanation of the above picture, and some people think that the orientation relationship between dryness (heaven), Kun (earth), gen (mountain), intersection (ze), earthquake (thunder), smoke (wind), hurdle (water) and separation (fire) in the picture comes from this.

The well-documented origin of congenital eight diagrams is the Song Dynasty. Shao Yong in the Northern Song Dynasty recorded this arrangement in Huang Shi, and soon after his death, a kind of innate gossip spread. Whether Shao Yong is the author of innate gossip has always been controversial.

Why are the positions of innate gossip and Gossip the day after tomorrow different? Some people think that innate gossip reflects the world before it was born, while the gossip the day after tomorrow is the opposite. Some people think that innate gossip and the acquired gossip represent the concepts of time and space respectively (similar to the dimensions in western learning), such as "innate gossip, the general observer" in Zhang Chao's Nightmare Shadow in the Qing Dynasty; Gossip the day after tomorrow, and the viewer is also. "