Why the ancients revered the number "nine"

1. "9 is the ultimate number". In decimal counting, "9" is the largest number, once beyond "9", it is a reply to "0"

. Therefore, the number "9" carries the cultural meaning of "reaching the top".

2. In ancient China, the ultimate political leader was the emperor, so "9" became the number of emperors: the dignity of the emperor was "Nine and Five", the ceremonial weapon representing public power was "Nine Cauldrons", and the "Universal Censer" was "Nine Cauldrons". "The land "under the whole sky, there is no land that is not the king's land" is "nine states".

3. "9" is the pole of Yang. Nine is the multiplier of three, three for the Yang, so "9" becomes the limit of Yang, called

the "Chung Yeung", which is the origin of the "nine nine Chung Yeung Festival".

Because "9" is the limit of number, "9" is also associated with "many".

The phrase "99 bends in the Yellow River" means "too many to count". Similarly, in Taoism, there are "nine heavenly maidens" for the immortals, and "nine turns of the dan" for the refining and mounting

, but the "nine numbers" here are not exact.

4. The culture of "9" is based on the cosmology and methodology of "Trichotomy", whose basic view is that "one point

is three". Westerners value "one divided into two" and emphasize the struggle between opposites, while Chinese people strongly wither "one divided into three" and tend to

toward the unity and harmony of "a couple and a child" style. The Chinese tend to favor the unity and harmony of "one couple, one child". Combine the two, "nine" has a "unity of opposites"

meaning, the Chinese from the plane (two-dimensional) on the nine points, there is a "river map", "Luoshu", Westerners from the three-dimensional

(three-dimensional) on the nine points, there is a poker, Rubik's Cube. This can be regarded as a clever use of the number "nine",

which shows that the number "nine" also has the meaning of "infinite changes". "Infinity" means "limit". Therefore, the number "nine"

has the meaning of "unknowable" and "mysterious", and the religious activities of human beings are mostly related to "seven" and "nine". "

The reason for this is to strengthen the mystery of the number.

The reason for this is that it reinforces the mystery.