What are Tai Chi, Two Instruments, Three Talents, Four Elephants, Five Elements, Liuhe, Seven Stars, Eight Diagrams and Nine Palaces?

Represents the unity of opposites in which all things correspond to each other and complement each other. The so-called' everything is negative and holds yang, and one yin and one yang is the way'. Yin and Yang represent the most basic opposition of all things.

"Zhouyi" biography: "It is easy to have Tai Chi, which is to give birth to two instruments." There are seven versions of these two musical instruments: Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, Parity, Rigidity and Flexibility, Huang Xuan, Gankun and Chunqiu.

2. Three talents: heaven, earth and people.

That is, the right time, the right place and the right people. Under the Book of Changes: "There are heaven, humanity, Taoism and both." "Three Characters Classic": "Three talents, heaven and earth. Three lights, the sun, the moon and the stars. "

3. Four Elephants: Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu or Sun, Taiyin, Shaoyin and Shaoyang.

Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four images. From the perspective of divinatory images, they are called Shaoyang, Sun, Shaoyin and Taiyin respectively, and generally refer to the four astronomical images: Qinglong (East), Baihu (West), Suzaku (South) and Xuanwu (North).

4. Five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Everything in the universe is made up of the movement and change of five basic material elements: wood, fire, earth, gold and water. With the rise and fall of these five elements, natural changes have taken place, which not only affect people's fate, but also make everything in the universe cycle. Moral integrity: wood is benevolence, fire is wisdom, soil is faith, gold is righteousness, and water is ceremony.

People have five elements, namely, meta-nature, meta-spirit, meta-vitality, meta-emotion and meta-essence.

It also corresponds to Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, and is called "five stars". Corresponding to the spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter in a year.

Corresponding to the "five festivals" of New Year, Shangsi, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi and Chongyang. Corresponding to the "five directions" of east, south, middle, west and north. Corresponding to blue, red, yellow, white and black. Corresponding to "Five Animals": Qinglong, Suzaku, Huang Lin/Agkistrodon/Gouchen, White Tiger and Xuanwu. Corresponding to "five animals": dogs, sheep, cows, chickens and pigs. Corresponding to "five insects": scale insects, feather insects, gymnosperms, caterpillars and ostracods.

Corresponding to "five grains": wheat, millet, five grains, rice and beans. Corresponding to "five fruits": plum, apricot, jujube, peach and chestnut. Corresponding to "five dishes": leek, onion, sunflower, onion and epimedium. Corresponding to "five evils" (or five qi): wind, heat, humidity, dryness and cold. Corresponding to the "five modernizations": birth, growth, culture, harvest and concealment.

5. Liuhe: body, mind, mind, qi, essence and spirit.

Six hexagrams of quantity, development and change, Liuhe's argument is more, generally:

(1) The combination of the earth, the ugliness of the child, the yin and the sea, the qi of the base, the unity of the Chen, the application of the four, and the disagreement in the afternoon are called the Twelve Earthly Branches Liuhe;

(2) The other six instruments are all from Taoist magic, namely, six-day operation, six-day meter, six-day watch, six-day heart, six-day appointment and six-day ghost;

(3) Up, down, left, right and heaven and earth generally refer to space;

④ The combination of mouse and cow, tiger and pig, rabbit and dog, dragon and chicken, snake and monkey, horse and sheep is the six in the zodiac.

⑤ Six Qi in TCM refers to six different climate changes in nature. Including wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire. If these six kinds of climate changes are too much or too little, they may all lead to human diseases.

The six-in-one in the five-body revelation is: body in mind, heart in mind, heart in god, god in essence, essence in god, and god in emptiness.

6. Seven Stars: Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang.

That is, the Big Dipper, Shu Tian (greedy wolf), Tian Xuan (giant gate), Tianji (Lucun), Tianquan (Wen Qu), Yuheng (Lian Zhen), Kaiyang (Wu Qu) and Yaoguang (Pojun).

The first four are the first, and the spoon handle is the bucket. Barrel handle means spring in the east, summer in the west, autumn in the west and winter in the north.

There is a theory of seven emotions in traditional Chinese medicine, which refers to seven emotional changes of people and is the mental state of the body, including joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock. Too much emotion can also cause disease, which is one of the main pathogenic factors of internal injuries.

7. Bagua: dry, Kun, see, reason, truth, root, training and exchange.

Dry represents heaven, Kun represents earth, ridge represents water, distance represents fire, earthquake represents thunder, root represents mountain, training represents wind, and change represents ze. Innate gossip: Gannan, Kunbei, Dongli, Kanxi, Dui Southeast, Zhenbei, Xunxi Southwest and Genxi Northwest.

In addition, there are eight doors in Daoism: Hugh Door, Birth Door, Injury Door, Degree Door, Scene Door, Death Door, Surprise Door and Open Door.

8. Jiugong: Gangong, Kangong, Gengong, Gong Zhen, Zhonggong, Gong Xun, Gong Li, Gongkun and Duigong.

Yigongkan (north), Ergongkun (southwest), Sangong Town (east), Sigongxun (southeast), Wugongzhong (sending Kunming), Liugonggan (northwest), Qigongdui (northwest), Bagonggen (northeast) and Jiukm (south).

Extended data

Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to three talents, three talents give birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to five elements, five elements give birth to Liuhe, Liuhe gives birth to seven stars, seven stars give birth to gossip, gossip gives birth to nine palaces, and everything belongs to ten parties.

The whole passage means that all things and phenomena in the vast universe contain yin and yang, as well as inside and outside. But they are both antagonistic and interdependent, which is the general law of the material world, the procedure and origin of many things, and the fundamental reason for the emergence and destruction of things.

This theory has been established for two or three thousand years and is still describing Vientiane for people. There is an interactive relationship between man and nature. People are related to heaven and earth, corresponding to the sun and the moon. The news of the profit and loss of one body is related to heaven and earth and should be related to things.

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