There was a time when it was rumored on the Internet that the 37th elephant of "Push back the map" predicted what happened in the year of Gengzi in 2020, is this really the case? In fact, this is a kind of rumor, more is that people for the unknown things themselves brain supplement, just like the constellation of the number into the seat, so everyone surfing the Internet can pay attention to distinguish the authenticity of the information, it is best to see the content of the in-depth understanding, no investigation has no right to speak, next we will talk about the back map and its 37 elephant prophecy.
In ancient feudal superstitious societies, from the king down to the people, they all hoped to have the ability to predict the prophet, so the "Push Back Map" came into being. According to legend, during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin hoped to predict the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty, ordered Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang to write a book, and then set the title of the book according to the praise in the 60th elephant, "Thousands and thousands of words are not exhausted, it is better to push back and return to Hugh".
"Push back map" is a book that integrates I Ching, astronomy, poetry, riddles, and pictures. Ancient people believed that it predicted things from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the present and even the future. A total of 60 gua elephants are presented in the "Push back map", each of which is numbered with a stem branch: it mainly contains a gua elephant, a picture, a proverb and a poem of "Ode to Yue". There are many versions of the pushback diagram circulating on the market, and as many as forty manuscripts and photocopies can be found.
First of all, we have to confirm that "Push Back Map" really exists? Yes, this book does exist. The earliest record of it can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, there are relevant records in the "Great Cloud Jingshu", and then the Northern Song Dynasty Zhuang Jiyu's "Chicken Rib Compilation" also mentions the "Push back map", and the Southern Song Dynasty Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke's "History of Yizu Forbidden Book" also mentions the push back map, the first mention of the author is Li Chunfeng, and also records that "Yizu (that is, Song Taizu) is on the throne." The "YuanDian Chapter" also records "forbidden private creation of domain calendars", "forbidden to cut off the back of the back and other 'forbidden to collect astronomical books" and other articles, the Ming Dynasty Yu Jideng's "Chronicles of Allusions", Zhu Guozhen's "Chung Dong Sketches" all mention the push back map, the book list has "Push Back Map", during the Republic of China period, there was a "Holy Sigh Hand Approval of Chinese Prophecy Seven", which also includes the prophecy work "Push Back Map".
At present, there are at least six versions of the well-known "Push Back Map", the earlier one is the tibetan painted Ming manuscript collected by the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the untupped Tibetan Ming banknote collected by the Central Library of Taiwan, the Ming banknote collected by the University of Chicago, followed by the Pan's BaxiLou banknote in the early Qing Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty lithograph collected by the University of Chicago.
The 37th elephant of the commentary version of the "Push Back Map" predicts the new crown pneumonia in 2020, and the 37 elephant proverb "Han Shui is vast and does not inherit the system." There is no distinction between the north and the south, and harmony is shared. "The Han River in the middle corresponds to Wuhan, where the epidemic is most severe, and the vast meaning is that many people have died due to the epidemic. There is no distinction between the north and the south, and harmony is shared. It means that one side has difficulties and support, the people of the whole country have worked together to suppress the epidemic, and finally control the widespread spread of the virus, and the picture is like a symbol of the new crown pneumonia, saying that it is impossible to breathe, but people in the water, why not drowning and unable to breathe? It is too hasty to explain it with such far-fetched associations, and how to interpret the following odes? It's outrageous. If the thirty-seventh elephant predicts the new crown virus, it is indeed far-fetched, and I think there is no connection between the two.
Moreover, contemporary scholars generally believe that the pushback map of Jin Shengsi's annotated version was written by someone under the guise of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it was completed by later generations under the guise of Jin Shengsi, after all, in ancient times, there was often the practice of "entrusting names".
Why this is so, of course, there are several pieces of evidence.
First of all, according to Jin Shengsi, who was born in the thirty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1608), the book said that "the summer of Nongshu, get a copy", is 1622, 14-year-old Jin Shengsi really has the ability to annotate the "Push Back Map"? And in 1623, the Ming Dynasty had not yet perished, and the Qing army had not entered the customs, so how to make a comment on the demise of the 32nd Elephant and the 33rd Elephant Ming Dynasty and the entry of the Qing army into the customs, and say that it was "easy to prove the past"? And there are also depictions of qing dynasty costumes, which are completely dressed.
Secondly, this version of the push back map, there are many idioms dating is not on the number. Many of these idioms appeared only after the Tang Dynasty, such as the word Nanyuan beiru, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty Wen Tianxiang's "Wenshan Collection", the 47th elephant in the Pifu has responsibility, the 56th elephant in the sea frontier, the diver is not a fish, first of all appeared in the Qing Dynasty, so we can be sure that this book is definitely not written by Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang of the Tang Dynasty, nor was it written by Jin Shengsi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
And the prediction in this push back chart is very strange, according to the push back map version, the earlier the time, the simpler it is, and the lower the accuracy rate. Nowadays, what everyone calls more accurate is the Jin Shengsi Commentary, which shows that the "Push Back Map" has been continuously modified by people in successive dynasties. The more obvious evidence is that the proportion of prophecies in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty is very high, there are 7 elephants in just a few decades, while there are only 7 elephants in the history of the three hundred years before and after the Tang Dynasty, and there are only 8 prophecies for the 400-year history of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and no dynasty has more prophesied than the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and from the events of the late Ming Dynasty, the time span between each elephant is significantly shortened. It doesn't look like a prophecy book, it's more like a history book.
Judging from the above pictures, "Pushing back the map" is not a work of the Tang Dynasty. The 39th elephant prophesied that "when the rising sun rises, everyone will cry", and it is generally believed that it is written that Japanese militarism invaded china, and the Chinese people are crying bitterly. But only during the Republic of China period will people compare the "rising sun" to Japan, to know that in ancient times, Japan represented the emperor, which shows that this high probability was added to the Republic of China period, so this is another loophole.
Professor Chen Xuelin, a Chinese-American historian, has studied the push back map, he has provided research on the source of Jin Shengsi's version of the push back map, in the first year of the Republic of China, there was a version of the push back map called "Push Back Map", the study said that this version is closely related to the anti-Qing revolutionary party in Tokyo, Japan, the gold sheng sigh that appeared in the fourth year of the Republic of China This edition added a lot of historical materials about the Sino-Japanese war, after the release of this version of the push back map, the anti-Qing and anti-Yuan revolutionary party editor He Haiming vigorously publicized the accuracy of the push back map of the version of Jin Shengsi's annotation, Therefore, the distribution and popularity of this version are closely related to the revolutionaries. Therefore, the push back map is probably annotated by later generations in the name of Jin Shengsi, in other words, to describe the push back map - often changing and new, keeping pace with the times.
In summary, "Push back map" is most likely a work that has been continuously modified by later generations. The popular version of jin sheng sigh annotated version of the pushback map can basically be determined to be written during the Republic of China. Its content was also very confusing after the end of the Qing Dynasty, and I did not know what it was talking about.
"Push Back Map" is actually a simple Taoist work, and predicting the future is not helpful, the language is vague, not falsified, especially in which the prediction of the end of the world in 2012 is the most outrageous, I want to be worried about the year, this is the biggest evidence, in my opinion this is not a prophecy, "Push Back Map" is more like a psychological anchor effect.
But we can not completely deny the significance of the existence of the push back map, read the push back map, you will have a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese culture, understand history, broaden your horizons, enrich yourself, increase knowledge, especially the ancient Taoist culture, help us improve our own thinking wisdom, understand that history has become a foregone conclusion, but it is not without traces, increase their judgment and cognitive ability to feel things.
"Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall", we regard history as a mirror in real life to guide us in the direction of progress, timely dredge up simplified thinking, and let us get guidance from history.
Thinking about the work "Pushing back the Map" from the direction of practical significance, he is not attracting us under the banner of feudal superstition, but contains a positive and upward cultural force, condenses the spirit of the arduous struggle of China's ancient ancestors, and we bring a strong spiritual foundation. The "Push back map" is a product of ancient indigenous culture, contains a wealth of Taoist philosophy, and the theoretical system of the predestined development of the historical concept of the imperial era - the republican era - the great contemporary can help us better understand the profound Taoist culture of the five thousand years of China.
Secondly, "Push Back Map" from the perspective of details to study history, he tells us the development and direction of things, not only to cover the coffin, but also to focus on the "why", to help future generations think about history, explore history, understand history, tell us that history is written by people, and because of the complexity of human nature, resulting in changes in history, so life is full of variables, this book is based on the details of human nature, help us get a rethinking of our history and human nature, let us take history as a mirror, and treat the past with our strengths and avoid weaknesses. Seize the perseverance of the present to create a bright future.
Again, do not be superstitious, "Push Back" only has reference and research value. If you think that you are slightly involved in the Taoist aspect, just read some Zhou Yi type books can predict the future through the push back map, then this idea must be wrong, to know that from ancient times to the present, so many researchers have not said that they can read through the whole text, and only after the incident can be put into the "push back map", if you first look at the "push back map" to know that things are going to happen, it is absolutely impossible, this is more like a psychological anchor, so we must remember not to be superstitious!
I hope that this article can let the majority of netizens have a deeper understanding of the push back map, do not believe in the prophecy, can be borrowed, but do not be superstitious, these prophecies are more like everyone's expectations for life in turbulent times, we should take history as a mirror, grasp the future, metaphysical things are most likely to say very vague, it looks ambiguous, so how to say it is right, to use their own learning to judge, rather than people in the clouds.