Chinese Cultural Symbols

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When we talk about traditional Chinese culture, it's all about Peking Opera, flower faces, cheongsams, dragon and lion dances.

The principle of categorization of traditional Chinese cultural symbols is based on "source" or "body", not "flow" or "use" as in the West. The former embodies the cosmos. The former embodies the "big system" of the universe, while the latter embodies the "sub-systems" of human society, and it is the big system that can fully reflect the holography of qi.

Traditional Chinese cultural symbols are divided into two categories according to heaven, earth, and man***, one is the natural symbols of heaven and earth and man, referred to as natural symbols. One is the man-made symbols simulated by human beings after feeling the symbols of heaven and earth, referred to as man-made symbols (but not behind closed doors).

Natural symbols refer to those mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars that reflect the energy of heaven and earth, as if the God of heaven and earth as the paper, gold, water, wood, fire and earth as the pen and ink of the magnificent symbols written. However, due to the mountains and rivers, the sun, moon and stars are arranged in different combinations, the time effect is different, so not all of nature, and every moment is favorable to human flourishing, and only the pioneers over the centuries such as the discovery of the ring of mountains, curved water, the Big Dipper, etc. with the cosmic helix field corresponds to the human advantage. These are "auspicious" symbols, yang symbols. On the other hand, Wolf's Tooth Mountain, Straight Water, and Wisdom Star, etc., which are harmful to human beings because they cannot collect the qi field of heaven and earth, belong to the "evil" talisman, the yin talisman. The former was hailed as "mountains surrounded by water must have gas", the latter was denounced as "mountains and rivers for the place of destruction", "straight straight to the loss of people" and so on.

This type of natural symbols, mainly used in site selection, building and other preferential aspects of the gas field, it formed a set of methods called "geomancy", Kan, astronomical. Kan, astronomy. The public opinion, geography. Therefore, geomancy is a symbolic science that studies whether the relationship between astronomy and geography and human beings is in line with each other. Obviously, this is not the same as feudal superstition.

The man-made symbols are based on the holographic principle of the correspondence between heaven and man, and through the practice of kung fu, the collection of cosmic qi and their own qi mixed with paper, pen, ink (or vermilion, andrographis and other traditional Chinese medicines) as an intermediary medium for the issuance of the outside of the body, and stored in the shape of a variety of curves and straight lines composed of symbols. The shape of the talisman corresponds to the natural talisman of heaven and earth, and the natural qi field of heaven and earth. In terms of size, it is like a peach kernel, the "micro-carving" technique of a grain of rice, and in terms of simulation, it is like "monosodium glutamate" and "saccharin". In short, a microcosm.

This type of artificial talisman is mainly used for healing, adjusting the field. Its achievements are reflected in the lost Chinese medicine Zhuyu Section. Today, it can also be found in the textbooks of Chinese medicine colleges and universities, "Neijing. Suwen. The theory of shifting essence and changing qi" in a Lin and a half claw: "Ancient healing, but its shifting essence and changing qi, can be blessed by only." The same as the natural charm should be used for geomancy, Zhuyuko is also with the feudal superstition should not be compared.

The relationship between natural and man-made symbols is close. In Feng Shui, man-made symbols are often used to adjust those less-than-ideal qi fields, which are called "exorcisms", and man-made symbols are often used to create a qi field by imitating the ring-shaped buildings around the mountain. When writing man-made talismans, a good natural qi field is needed to guarantee the effect. The cross-application of these two types of symbols not only reflects the conformity, but also shows the enterprising spirit of the transformation of the status quo, indicating the positive attitude of the philosophers towards nature.

Of course, both natural and man-made symbols can be subdivided into two categories: chi symbols and solid symbols.

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