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In the thousands of years of history of the mainland, many legendary literati have been born, and under their pens, one after another magical world has appeared before our eyes.
Today, I will take stock of the ten strange books that appeared in ancient history.
The Tao Te Ching, known as the "King of Ten Thousand Classics", cannot enter the top three, and the first has become a mystery for thousands of years.
What are the ancient books they are? What is so wonderful about these strange books?
The Tenth Wonder "Ice Book"
The Ice Book is an extremely famous book of knowledge in the history of the mainland, and it is a rather bizarre literature of xiangshu.
The author of the "Ice Book" is the politician Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty, and the theory of the art of knowing people in it is said to be zeng Guofan summing up his many years of experience in understanding people in the official field and his experience in using people's hearts, and finally wrote a book of kuangshiqi.
This strange book records some of the ways in which people meet, and the book describes them in great detail.
For example, whether this person has some achievements depends on his demeanor; whether his career is successful or not depends on his spirit; if the facts are not real, he looks at his heels, and so on.
What is the wonder of this book?
As a strange book that plays a very strong role in the management and political science of the field of talents, the name of Bingjian can be said to resound at home and abroad, and Chiang Kai-shek's method of matching people was learned from the "Ice Book".
Although Lao Jiang's performance in the Liberation War was very hot-eyed, it has to be said that his vision of people has always been very accurate. After joining our army, zhu de, Peng Dehuai, and other generals he was most optimistic about, he went all the way through thorns and thorns, defeated many of lao Jiang's generals, and finally drove lao Chiang out of the mainland completely.
Even in contemporary times, the book "Ice Book" has been sought after and valued by people from all walks of life, and even some people regard it as a must-read book for starting a business.
Although the author of the Ice Book is Zeng Guofan, in fact, before Zeng Guofan, there were published "Ice Book" books in the folk, but unfortunately the age is long, and there was no name of other authors on the book "Ice Book" at that time, so there was no way to find it.
Moreover, Tang Haoming, who sorted out the relevant documents of Zeng Guofan, also refuted rumors, saying that this book "Ice Book" was not created by Zeng Guofan, but he could not find the source of this art of knowing people.
The Ninth Wonder The Burial Scripture
The Book of Burial is a strange book written by Guo Pu, a feng shui scholar during the two Jin Dynasties in mainland China, and is a unique book about ancient feng shui culture.
The book "Burial Classic" records a great summary of the feng shui culture that ancient people believed in when burying the dead, and is also a true portrayal of the mainland funeral culture.
The things recorded in the book are mysterious and mysterious, not only have an elaborate record of the feng shui of the burial place at the time of funeral, but also about the placement of the remains at the time of funeral, the time requirements for burial, etc., which is a very mysterious "feudal superstition" book.
Although we are more scientific today, many feng shui scholars still use the theory in this book as a reference to study and study, trying to find clues to science from these ingenious ideas.
The "Burial Classic" is the opening work of feng shui in ancient mainland China, which is not only an extremely precious feng shui cultural theory, but also the ancestor of Chinese feng shui culture.
The Eighth Wonder of the Book of Transformation
The Book of Transformation is a strange book of Taoist thought written by Tan Qiao, a famous Taoist scholar at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
Speaking of Tan Qiao, he is also a very interesting and strange person.
He was very intelligent since he was a child, familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, is the "prodigy" in the mouth of the rural neighbors, according to the life path arranged by his father, he should rely on his talents to mix in the career after completing his studies.
It's just a pity that Tan Qiao is very personal, but he doesn't love official battles, and he is bent on the way of Huang Lao, and he reads books such as "Mao Jun Liexian Inner Biography" and even recites them throughout.
Suddenly, one day, Tan Qiao's heart that longed for freedom could no longer be hidden, and he directly bid farewell to his father and traveled all over the mountains.
Tan Qiao's father thought that Tan Qiao would come back after going out to play, but who expected that after visiting Zhongnan Mountain, Huashan Mountain, Wangwu Mountain, Hengheng Mountain, Taishan Mountain, and Song Mountain, he actually felt that it was too comfortable to live outside and did not plan to go home.
Even if his father wrote a letter scolding him, he did not turn back, determined to imitate the feats of Mao Jun in those years, and went up the mountain to cultivate the Tao and aspired to become a immortal. However, in this cultivation, he really cultivated himself into a great immortal, and the "Book of Transformation" was a great work of thought that he wrote after he "became an immortal".
Tan Qiao not only inherited Lao Tzu's idea that he was born out of nothing and eventually returned to nothing, but also summed up the Daofa thoughts of many Taoist sages and finally thought out the principle of "transformation".
Tan Qiao believes that "change" is the ultimate mystery of the world. Yin and yang are changes, bu gua is change, dynastic changes are changes, and ideological progress is changes. Abstract points are, in the words of the original text:
Void God, Deify Qi, Vaporize Form, Form and All Things Are Plugged. The use of the Tao is also the forming of qi, the vaporization of god, the deification of the void, the illusion and the so of all things. It is the end of the ancient sage's poverty, the source of creation, forgetting the form to nourish the qi, forgetting the qi to nourish the gods, forgetting the gods to nourish the void. Virtual reality is connected, which is called the same. Therefore, the tibetan is the yuanjing, the use is the spirit, the containment is taiyi, and the release is too clear. It is to dissolve the body in one, the wind and clouds to vent in the seven tricks, the true qi to steam and there is no cold and heat, the pure yang flow and the people have no death or life, which is also the path of deification.
To put it bluntly, it is actually Lao Tzu's Tao sheng one, one life two, two birth three, three life all things.
There are six volumes in the Book of Transformation, namely Tao, Shu, Virtue, Ren, Food, and Frugality, which record many extended forms of Daoist thought, inheriting the idea of "Tai Xuan", the highest philosophy in the Commentary on Liezi, which is incomparably mysterious throughout.
The ideas recorded in the Book of Transformation are very mysterious, and they also occupy this very important position in the history of mainland thought.
The Seventh Wonder "The Plain Book"
Zhang Liang, who helped Liu Bang pacify the Jiangshan, was a very famous strategist in history. According to legend, Zhang Liang's resourcefulness was all aided by a strange book, and that strange book was the "Plain Book".
This "Plain Book" was called the Strange Book and the Heavenly Book by people in ancient times. To be able to obtain the name of the Book of Heaven is enough to see that it is difficult for people to read, and those who read him are almost all-knowing, and do everything with divine help, as if he is a book of "truth" that knows all and is all-powerful.
The "Book of Plains" not only puts forward many principles for doing things and making people understand the essence of things, but also has many good strategies for governing the country and deploying troops, and the book also records the rules of the natural movement of all things in the universe, which can be described as a very comprehensive life textbook.
According to legend, the "SuShu" was a strange book written by the hermit Huang Shigong in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, and Huang Shigong was able to ascend to the Tao after writing this book, and it was also written into the divine spectrum by Taoism, which was also quite magical.
The legend about Huang Shigong teaching Zhang Liang's "Book of Su" tells that when Zhang Liang passed by him, Huang Shigong deliberately got his shoes under the bridge and asked Zhang Liang to pick them up for him, while Zhang Liang was very humble to pick up shoes for him without a trace of complaint. Later, Huang Shigong tested Zhang Liang's kindness many times, and Zhang Liang also passed the test of Huang Shigong and was awarded the strange book "Su Shu" by Huang ShiGong.
Then the story is that Zhang Liang went down the mountain to help Liu Bang calm the world after completing his studies.
Zhang Liang's eventual successful retirement was not like Han Xin in the same period, after Liu Bang's regime was consolidated, he was "hidden by the bird", and the "Sushu" was also indispensable.
The Sixth Wonder "Zhou YiShan Tongqi"
The Zhou Yi Shan Tong Qi is one of the earliest classic texts of Taoism on alchemy.
The author of "Zhou Yi Ginseng Tongqi" is Wei Boyang, who was known as the "King of the Wangu DanJing" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this book is his understanding of the alchemy of ancient classics such as Zhou Yi, and after digesting this knowledge, he finally participated in the Waidan Classics.
What is expounded in the book is an ancient Waidan alchemy theory, emphasizing that alchemy should take Qiankun as the furnace, yin and yang as the embankment, water and fire as the chemical machine, the five acts to help, and the Xuanjing and other gods as the Danji.
Speaking of this, everyone may feel very familiar, because this theory is still very common in today's online fantasy novels, and the originator of the alchemy in various online texts is actually this "Zhou YiShan Tongqi". It can be seen that the influence of this book on future generations can be described as extremely far-reaching.
Not only in contemporary times, but also in ancient times, the status of the Zhou YiShan Tongqi in the Taoist Waidan Way can be said to be extremely far-reaching, and its influence on the literati and warlocks of later dynasties is also extremely far-reaching.
Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty wrote a special book "Zhou YiShan Tongqi KaoYi" to analyze this book; Yu Yan of the Yuan Dynasty also wrote "Zhou YiShan Tongqi Play" to record his research. Just like we do thesis today, the bachelors at that time often did research and wrote papers on the basis of the theories of their predecessors, except that they studied the mysterious things of alchemy.
However, although the "alchemy" thing is quite mysterious to say, in fact, it is all just chemistry. For example, the "Huan Dan" recorded in the "Zhou Yi Ginseng Tongqi" is actually mercury oxide in today's view, and some people have specially made the chemical formula of "alchemy":
3Pb + 2O2 = Pb3O4 (Yellow Bud)
2Pb3O4 = 6PbO + O2↑ (Lower Danding) (reversible reaction)
2Hg + O2 = 2HgO (Lower Danding) (reversible reaction)
As soon as this formula is listed, all the mysteries are no longer mysterious, proper chemical research.
Although people have now explored and understood what the alchemy thing is all about, it is still impossible to deny the status of the Zhou YiShan Tongqi in Taoism and historical chemistry research.
The Fifth Wonder "Legend of the Immortals"
The Biography of the Immortals is a strange book written by the Taoist scholar Ge Hong during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Although the book "Biography of the Immortals" has never been as hot as the four famous works, the magic of the "Biography of the Immortals" alone can even be compared with books such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Liaozhai Zhiyi.
Since "The Biography of the Immortals" can be compared with the "Liaozhai", why is the book "The Biography of the Immortals" so tepid and not well known to the public?
There are ten volumes of the Immortal Biography, which records the various deeds of nearly a hundred "immortals", and the descriptions in them are mostly biased towards the immortals we yearn for today. To be a hero and a righteous person, to live in seclusion in the mountains, to get rid of the troubles of the world, and to be a worldly master, I have to say that this is indeed an extremely beautiful thing.
At this point, the same type of "Liaozhai" will be much more miserable, closer to reality, and easy to resonate with the toiling public. More bizarre ghosts also add a lot of fun to the story.
In this contrast, it is understandable that "The Legend of the Immortals" is not as hot as "Liaozhai", after all, art comes from life, and only works that are close to life and expose reality can be loved by more people.
Although the essence of "The Legend of the Immortals" is actually a Zhiwei novel similar to Liaozhai, the miracles and other stories depicted in it are indeed very vivid and convey the gods, providing a basis for people's fantasies about the gods.
The appearance of the hermit gaoren conceived in our minds now, as well as the appearance of the gods and immortals in the fantasy novels, can actually be found in the "Legend of the Immortals".
The status of the "Legend of the Immortals" in the history of the mainland is actually not high, but in the hearts of many metaphysical enthusiasts, this is indeed a rare ancient book, barely ranking fifth.
The Fourth Wonder of the Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching is the work of the philosopher Lao Tzu during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Mainland.
The Tao Te Ching occupies a crucial place in the history of the development of Chinese thought, and the ideas recorded in it are also the source of Taoist philosophical thought.
Although the tao te ching has been passed down as a very magical book, in fact, it is only a work of thought, and today's popular encyclopedia is only more than 5,000 words, which is not as many as the words of some online novels.
The "Tao Te Ching" expounds some worldly truths from the aspects of self-cultivation, rich country and people, deployment of troops, and longevity, and the most advocated is the study of "inner saint and outer king".
The so-called Inner Saint and Outer King is actually what Lao Tzu believes is the supreme stage of character development in life. Pay attention to the fact that people should have the virtue of a saint like a saint in their hearts, but externally they must show the power of a king like a king.
Although the Tao Te Ching is only expounding some of Lao Tzu's cultural ideas, since it can be called the "King of Ten Thousand Classics", of course, it cannot really be so simple.
The study of traditional philosophy, science, politics, religion and other aspects of the book still has a huge impact, UNESCO has statistics, the Tao Te Ching is the world's most translated book besides the Bible, can be said to be one of the greatest masterpieces in Chinese history.
Even "divine works" such as the Tao Te Ching can only rank fourth, and how amazing are the top three strange books?
Let's move on.
The Third Wonder of the I Ching
The "I Ching" and "Lian Shan" and "Guizang" are known as one of the three great wonder books of ancient China, but unfortunately the other two books have been lost, and only the "I Ching" is still circulated.
The "I Ching" is actually the "Zhou Yi" we are familiar with, and the so-called Zhou Yi Bagua is the divination and gossip technique written in the I Ching.
How amazing is the I Ching?
It is known as the "source of the first avenue of the sutras", which contains countless truths and is the general program of the true traditional Chinese culture.
The content of the book is all-encompassing, including but not limited to philosophy, politics, life, literature, science, art, and even cosmic truth, and the content is extremely wide-ranging and far-reaching.
All schools and sects regard it as a classic among the classics, and the ancient literati's study of it has never stopped for thousands of years, and the Strange Book "Zhou Yi Ginseng Tongqi" refers to this "I Ching", which is enough to see how high the status of Zhou Yi is in the hearts of ancient literati.
The second wonder "Push Back Diagram"
The legend of "Pushing Back The Map" is really somewhat fantastical, it is a strange book made by Li Chunfeng, an astronomer and metaphysical master of the Tang Dynasty, and Yuan Tiangang.
The two speculated about the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty through the technique of heaven and earth branching, and thoroughly predicted the important events of the Tang Dynasty and its subsequent dynasties, which is an extremely mysterious book of prophecy.
The "Push Back Map" once predicted That Wu Zetian would be called emperor, and also predicted many facts that have been confirmed in later generations, which can be said to be very magical, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a "divine book".
Although some people suspect that the "Push back map" that we have seen today has already been revised by successive dynasties and dynasties, and the "prophecy" in it has been "confirmed" in disguise, and it was not until the Republic of China period that it was completely matured. But in fact, these claims basically cannot stand up to scrutiny, after all, no one has enough evidence to prove that the prophecies of this "push back map" are indeed false.
The "divine books" that can predict the future can only be ranked second, how amazing is the first strange book?
Let's reveal for you that the most mysterious strange book in history, the mythical legend known as the "Cosmic Cube" - the Book of River Tuluo.
The First Wonder of the Book of River Tulo
The "Book of River Tuluo" is two extremely esoteric patterns handed down from ancient times on the mainland, in fact, it must be said that the "Book of River Tuluo" cannot be counted as a book, but the mystery of this pattern has to make people sigh.
"Book of Hetuluo" is the most mysterious mystery in the history of Chinese civilization, and until now no one has been able to crack the mystery of the universe contained in it, which is completely the first wonder in China!
What is the first strange book in your mind?