"Jinbai Shuiqing", "Wood Fire Tongming", "Mizuki Qinghua", these words must be very familiar to everyone, especially the eight-character pattern related to it. There are many sources of the pattern of the eight characters, some from the ten gods, some from the "form", and some from the "elephant", as we said earlier, these patterns are from the "elephant". (Image from pexels)
There is a "image" in the "Dripping Heavenly Essence", in which the "shape" focuses on whether the single five elements are prosperous, while the "elephant" is mainly concerned with two different five elements, which seems to be the most fundamental difference between the two, but it is not the case. From these two sentences, it seems that the standard of "becoming an image" mentioned in "Dripping Heavenly Essence" must be "two five elements" instead of one five elements, which seems to be a little different from what we usually call "elephant", which is a misunderstanding of the ancients.
Can an image be only two five elements?
To understand the true meaning of "imagery" in "Dripping Heavenly Essence", we must also go through the "Three Lives". There is a passage in the "Three Lives" that fully explains what "imagery" is. The book says: "Where the five elements take the image, the image takes the image, such as the fire elephant of the wood." Avatars take avatars, such as pentadecyl, yimu fire elephants and the like. ...... Fire and earth are poisonous, fire and wood are more intelligent, fire and water are more ambiguous, fire is more fierce, wood fire is colorful, wood water is clear, wood gold is straight, wood and earth poison, water and fire wisdom, water and wood wisdom, water and gold are beautiful, and water and soil are turbid. Each of them is deduced by the nature of the five elements." From this passage, it can be seen that one five elements can also be symbolized, not necessarily two five elements.
The "two lines of imagery" in the eight characters may come from the "image" in the "Eight Laws of Divine Interest", both of which are based on the two five elements of each being formed. These two five elements must be beneficial to each other, if they are not beneficial to each other, then the image is not necessarily good, such as the aforementioned "heavy turbidity of water and soil", and "golden white water" is good because the gold is rich and watery, and each is beautiful.
Speaking of this, friends who are familiar with the "Dripping Heavenly Essence" will question it, because one of the concepts I mentioned earlier is wrong: in the "Dripping Heavenly Essence", it is not said that only two five elements can be imaged, because there are also "single images" and "holographic images" in the "Dripping Heavenly Essence", that is, one five elements can be imaged, two five elements can be imaged, and five five elements can also be imaged (the commentators of "Dripping Heavenly Essence" believe that at most three five elements can be imaged), and there is no need to stick to numbers.
The criterion for judging two lines of imaging
Many people ask me: "Is my eight characters bright and bright"? My response was, "It seems to be." The reason why I have to answer this way is very simple, the image of the eight characters has always been a "confused account", just as confused as the "qualification of the lattice". For example, the requirement in the original note of "Dripping Heavenly Marrow" is that "the heavenly stem belongs to wood, and the earth branch belongs to fire" is an image, that is to say, the conditions are strictly limited to the dry branches, but the eight characters have four pillars, and one pillar is like, how to judge the other pillars? Therefore, Ren Tieqiao directly ignored the original commentary and made his own definition: "Two qi and two clear, non-single wood fire two shapes are also like earth and gold, water phase life each half five rounds", that is to say, the eight stem branches each account for four of the five elements is "two lines into the image". If the definition of Ren Tieqiao is taken, the lattice condition of "Mizuki Qinghua Lattice" is that there are four waters and four woods in the eight characters, and there can be no other five elements.
There are two different theories about "Dripping Heavenly Essence" alone, so what does "Three Lives Tell" say? The criterion for judging the "two-line image" in the "Three Lives General Association" is still "two lines and half of each", but it is different from Ren Tieqiao's "eight five elements are half of each", which is "four pillars and two halves". What is "four columns and two halves"? That is, the stem branch of each pillar in the four pillars is required to be a five-element, and then the two five elements each occupy two pillars, such as the example in the book "Han Xueshi: Wu Shu (dry branch soil), Ding Mi (dry branch fire), Peng Shu (dry branch soil), Ding Mi (dry branch fire), fire and soil image", which is obviously more stringent than the entry conditions set by Ren Tieqiao.
Although the criteria for judging "image" as defined in the "Three Lives General Association" are very strict, the descriptions in some places in the book are not judged strictly according to this standard, such as "Nongshen, Nongzi, Jia Shu, Bing Yin, Huiyin Guilu, Water Spirit and Fire God's Magic, Wood Fire Tongming Image", and judging an eight-character character as both "water and fire image" and "wood fire image", it is obvious that the image conditions used by Wan Minying are also specious.
Therefore, if in a broad sense, two of the five elements in the eight characters account for the largest proportion of the two lines of the image, if strictly speaking, the two five elements of the stem and branch are each half, so the most basic entry condition of "Water Wood Qinghua" is that water and wood should each account for half. I wonder if everyone thinks so?
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