introduction
"Law in Yin and Yang, and in the number of operations" comes from the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon", which proposes that the root of health preservation is to follow the "way of Yin and Yang Arithmetic Number", "Number" and "Number" are different, if the specific application technology must be expressed with "Number", the expression of the mathematical laws behind all things in heaven and earth is used "Number".
"The Way of Yin and Yang Numbers" is interpreted by "Dharma symbols", which the author calls the "Dharma Symbol Interpretation System", including "Five Elements System", "Heluo Book System", "Dry Branch Character System" and so on.
The "Dharma Symbol Interpretation System" takes the "number" of the number of spells as the internal basis for construction, and the "number of heaven and earth" and "the great number of heaven and earth" from one to nine summarize the connotation of "the way of yin and yang numbers".
1. The interpretation system of legal symbols
The object of interpretation of the symbol is the "object", which is the reflection of concrete things in the human brain.
Due to the complexity of objects, in order to simplify, the ancients found through observation that "the image of law is greater than heaven and earth", that is, "heaven and earth" is the largest object in the eyes of the ancients, "heaven and earth" have two, naturally divided into "yin and yang", so far the basis for the distinction of the "yin and yang" attribute of all objects is "heaven and earth".
Continue to observe, there is also a pair of the largest yin and yang in the sky - the sun and the moon, and there is also a pair of the largest yin and yang on the earth - the landscape, these are the natural images that the ancients can take the law, and abstract the opposite relationship between these types of things with symbols, that is, yin and yang, or yin and yang, yin and yang and yin and yang are "law symbols";
We know that when the attributes of heaven and earth are different, the sympathetic rise and fall of yin and yang qi will occur, and the four times are generated, and the Taoist Neidan classic "Zhong Lu Missionary Collection" points out that the four solar terms directly come from the rise and fall of the yin and yang of heaven and earth:
"After the winter solstice, the sun rises in the earth. Whoever breathes for fifteen days, goes up seven thousand li, counts one hundred and eighty days. The sun rises to the sky, and the tai chi gives birth to the yin.
After the summer solstice, the sky is overcast. Whoever breathes for fifteen days, goes down seven thousand li, counts one hundred and eighty days. Yin descends to the earth Taiji to regenerate the yang", "Zhou Yi" said: "Flexibility is greater than four times", so "four times" is the result of the rise and fall of the yin and yang of heaven and earth.
The four times can be expressed by trigrams, or "too (old) young yin and yang", and continue to be interpreted into "three yin and three yang, eight trigrams, sixty-four trigrams", etc., forming a legal symbol interpretation system of the yin and yang system.
In addition, there are still "Five Elements System", "Heluo Book System" and "Dry Branch Character System" magic symbol interpretation system, although there are many types, but everything is inseparable from their origins, and the theoretical core of these legal symbol interpretation systems is nothing more than the "Yin and Yang Five Elements".
The Dharma symbol interpretation system is the basic deduction tool of the "Yin and Yang Numbering Way", and its status in "Arithmetic" and "Number" is like that of numbers in mathematics.
The specific application technology of the art of arithmetic and the "way of yin and yang arithmetic number" in Chinese medicine is "number art", which is based on the theory of the five behaviors of yin and yang, and uses the legal symbols such as yin and yang, five elements, dry branches, and trigrams as deduction tools to explore the formation and development law of everything in the universe, and to calculate the relationship between man and time and space so as to avoid the overall scientific and systematic model of luck and avoid evil.
The mathematics in the "Hejaz" only include astronomy, calendars, five elements, etc., but according to the classification of the "Shuzang" of Minzu University, there are still categories such as Bu Xiao, Kan Yu, Liuren, numerology, Qi Men, Taiyi, Xiangshu, and Selection, while Mr. Chen Weihui, a contemporary mathematics master, also includes the medical skills of "Fang Jiao" in the "Hejaz":
"Based on the most basic laws of truth in the universe, based on the principles of the three talents and five behaviors of Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Bagua, Heluo, Ganzhi, and the Three and Five Ways of Operational Research, in order to deeply study and gain insight into all quantitative relationships and the formation of changes in time and space in the universe, unify many disciplines such as music law, calendar, astrological signs, climate, geography, and medicine into a systematic and holistic view."
The author agrees with this definition, and the internal organs of Chinese medicine use the "five-element system" to interpret the system of legal symbols, the meridians to the "yin and yang system", the "dry branch character system" for climate pathogenesis, and the "Heluo system" to explain the laws of human body generation, physiology, pathology and other laws in the legal symbol system.
From this point of view, the "meridian flow injection" and "five luck and six qi" of traditional Chinese medicine are based on the "way of yin and yang numbers" and establish the corresponding mechanism of studying the corresponding mechanism of the small universe of the human body and the large universe of heaven and earth to avoid evil, such as five luck and six qi is a mathematical model that studies the change between climate and human physiological pathology.
The number of arithmetic numbers and the "number of arithmetic" in Chinese medicine refer to the mathematical law of the operation of all things in the universe, "number" is the name of constant, which is a special image, the general image has ambiguity, and the "number" image is relatively accurate.
So what are these constants? The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" has already given the answer, proposing that "the supreme number of heaven and earth begins with one and ends with nine Yan" ("Suwen Sanbu Nine Waiting Theory"), and the "Lingshu Nine Needles Theory" describes the method of making nine needles from one to nine "the great numbers of heaven and earth":
"One is the heavens of law, two is the law of the earth, three is the legal person, four is the time of the law, five is the sound of the law, six is the law, seven is the star of the law, eight is the wind of the law, and nine is the field of the law." In addition, these constants are also included in theories such as "five luck and six qi, seven men and eight women, and eight winds in nine palaces".
Another example is the "Zhong Lu Evangelistic Collection" on the need for human body cultivation to "collect the true one, check the two yi, list the three talents, divide the four elephants, don't be five lucks, fix the six qi, gather the seven treasures, order the eight trigrams, and travel to Kyushu", which is also the application of "the great number of heaven and earth".
During the Warring States Qin and Han dynasties, numbers had formed a relatively fixed pattern of connection with some basic substances. “
The "Heluo Book System" is based on the "great numbers of heaven and earth" as the symbol system, and "Zhou Yi" has a discussion on the basic parameters of heaven and earth: "Tian 1, Earth 2; Heaven 3, Earth 4; Heaven 5, Earth 6; Heaven seven, earth eight; Heaven nine, earth ten".
"Shangshu Dabian Five Elements Biography" is equipped with five elements: "Heaven gives birth to water, earth gives birth to fire, heaven gives birth to wood, and earth gives birth to gold." The earth is six into water, the sky is seven into fire, the earth is eight into wood, the sky is nine into gold, and the heaven is five into earth." The author corresponds to the content list of the large numbers of heaven and earth.
It should be emphasized that there is no 0 in ancient numbers on the mainland, but it is often said that "none", which means 0, as the end of the decimal cycle, 0 and 10 are equivalent.
The author below describes the connotation of the large numbers of heaven and earth from the perspective of "heaven and earth people". These constants can help us to learn how to change when studying TCM.
Second, there is no interpretation of the Tao Te Ching cloud:
"Tao Sheng Yi", Dao is nothing, "Lü's Spring and Autumn" believes that Taiyi is another name for Dao, because one is born of Dao, and the Taiji character that indicates the meaning of the beginning of the yuan is added to it, which means the mother of giving birth to one: "The Tao, the supreme essence, cannot be form, cannot be named, strong (name), called Taiyi".
The Tao Te Ching further explains that nothing is the origin of all things, "all things in heaven and earth are born of something, and something is born of nothing", and before things come into being, including before people are born, they are all in the void and have no physical nature: "The Tao is a thing, but a trance." In a trance, there are elephants... It is very true, and there is faith in it".
Since the Tao is nothing, there is no difference between wood, fire, gold and water, but can only be expressed by the earth that neutralizes the wood, fire, gold and water, and the soil lord believes, so it is said that "there is faith in it", indicating that the operation of the Tao is like the "response of the drum" of trustworthiness.
This is also the reason why "Calm nothingness, true qi from it", people can resonate with the source of their own generation at the same frequency, and they can be nourished and repaired.
Third, the interpretation of the "Five Elements of Great Righteousness" cloud:
"Heaven gives birth to water in the north, and the earth is made of six", the number of water is the Yang number "one", and the five elements in the Hetu and Luo Shu are all water, corresponding to the innate gossip as dry, and the acquired gossip as a hurdle.
Guo Dian Chu Tomb Bamboo Jian's "Tai Sheng Water" believes that "one" and "Tao" together generate "heaven": "Great (Tai) life water, water anti (auxiliary) big (tai) one, is to become heaven", Tao Sutra "Tai Shang Jiu Heart Seal Miao Jing" and "Lingshu" "One to Dharma Heaven" understanding: "The Tao is divided into three parts, and it is not separated from one qi." One breather, heaven also. It is the heavenly void and the breath of nature."
Similar to the Tai Sheng Shui, the Taiqing Realm Middle Essence Sutra also points out that this qi is water: "The life of the lady is a blazing water in the middle of the north of the weather, and everything is born of water."
"Zhou Yi" said: "Therefore, "Yi" has Tai Chi, which is the birth of two yi", and "Zhou Yi Qianchishi" explains: "Easy becomes one, one change becomes seven, and seven changes is nine." The nine, the study of qi change, is the complex transformation into one, the beginning of the transformation of the other, the "Tao" has no changing entity, but it can be called the change itself, that is, "easy", so easy is "Dao", "easy to become one".
The Tao Te Ching clouds: "Tao gives birth to one", "one" is the starting point of the Tao's incarnation of all things, and the "Enlightenment of Truth" points out that babies are born of "one containing true qi": "The baby is one containing truth, and the October fetus is rounded into the holy foundation".
Zhen Shu's commentary believes that one is the innate qi of true yin and true yang, which shows that the baby is directly born of the "water of heaven" in the north position, so kidney water is the innate foundation.
Fourth, the second interpretation of the "Five Elements of Great Righteousness" cloud:
"The earth gives birth to fire in the south with two, and the heavens are made of seven", the number of fire is the negative number "two", in the river diagram, the five elements belong to fire, and the five elements in the Luo Book belong to gold, corresponding to the innate gossip as the exchange, and the acquired gossip as kun.
"Tao Te Ching" cloud: "life two", "Lingshu Nine Needles Theory" said: "two to the law of the land", "Zhou Yi" said: "Therefore "Yi" has Tai Chi, is the birth of two yi", Tai Chi one breath further generates two yin and yang, yin and yang are discussed a lot in ancient books.
For example, the Taiping Sutra believes that the relative derivation of yin and yang is "the root handle of the Tao and the supreme meaning of the gods": "From heaven and earth, from day to moon, from yin and yang, from spring to autumn, from summer to winter, from day to night, from left to right, from surface to inside, from confession to black, from self to clarity and darkness, from rigidity and softness, from male to female, from front and back, from top to bottom, from king to courtier, from A and B, from son to ugly, from five to six, from wood and grass, from mu and oyster, from male to female, from mountain to fu."
The things derived from yin and yang are endless, but as long as you grasp the most fundamental form of yin and yang, heaven and earth, you will also grasp yin and yang.
"Zhou Yi" said: "It is the image of the law that is greater than heaven and earth", and "Zhuangzi" said: "The largest of the form is heaven and earth, and the largest of qi is yin and yang", in the eyes of the ancients, heaven and earth are the largest pair of visible yin and yang law images.
Fifth, the third interpretation of the "Five Elements of Great Righteousness" cloud:
"Heaven is made of three lives of wood in the east, and the earth is made of eight of it", the number of wood is the number of yang "three", and the five elements in the Hetu and Luo Shu are all wood, corresponding to the congenital gossip as separation, and the day after tomorrow as the earthquake.
The Tao Te Ching cloud: "Two lives three, three lives and all things", the movement of yin and yang qi is like the combination of male and female, producing new life, which may be the most intuitive expression of the so-called "three lives and all things".
"Lingshu Nine Needles Theory" says: "Three legal persons", that is, people live in the qi intercourse between heaven and earth, and are born from the two yi of heaven and earth: "The position of the upper and lower, the qi intercourse, the dwelling of man" ("Suwen Six Micro Wills").
"Suwen Bao's Theory of Whole Form" contains: "Born on earth, life hangs in the sky, heaven and earth are in harmony, and fate is man." In this way, the "three talents" of heaven and earth stand at the pole.
"Three talents" or "three materials" first appeared in "Zhou Yi": "Yi Zhi is also a book, the vast number of well-prepared, there is a heavenly way, there is humanity, there is an authentic way." Three-pronged both."
"Three" has an important position in philosophy, and "Say Wen Xie Zi" said: "Three, several names, the way of heaven and earth".
Philosophically, three is the basis for forming the structure, such as the basis of the combination of yin and yang is three, the principle basis of the text structure is three (point, line, hook), the structure of the lever principle is also three, and "three" basically covers all structural forms in nature. Three yin and three yang are the basis for the theoretical system of "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" and the construction of the theory of five luck and six qi.
Secondly, three is the equilibrium point, front and back, left and right, up and down, inside and outside, north and south and other binary opposition structures, there is a problem of intermediate equilibrium connection, this middle is three, so there is upper middle and lower, south middle north. Therefore, trigrams are three masters, and ding is three legs.
Because "three" can find a balance between yin and yang, it produces the qi of impulse and harmony, and the Confucian moderation "too much" and "inferior" together constitute a behavior pattern of "one division into three": "less than - moderate - too much", and the five lucks and six qi are also based on "calm, too much, not enough".
The essence of TCM is to adjust yin and yang too much and too late to make it moderate. It can be seen that the classification mode of the three talents of heaven and earth is not only widely used in medicine, but also in Chinese culture, and the classification of arithmetic numbers seems to be according to the three talents model: astronomy (astronomy, calendar), personnel (five elements, turtles, miscellaneous occupation), geography (shape method).
epilogue
The interpretation system of Dharma symbols, such as trigrams and stem branch Dharma symbols, is based on the "number" of the number of spells: the heavenly stem comes from yin and yang, the five elements, the earth branch comes from yin and yang, four times, and five elements, and the trigram comes from yin and yang, three talents, and six combinations, rooted in the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, but the fundamental source is only one, two, three, and Lao Tzu's "three lives and all things" is the best interpretation.
In summary, from one to nine, the "number of heaven and earth" and "the great number of heaven and earth" summarize the connotation of "the way of yin and yang numbers".
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