<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="1" > Li Ao's explanation of "negative yin and yang"</h1>
Li Ao, a Taiwanese cultural cattleman, said in a speech: "My old friend and old classmate Chen Gu should be a professor at National Taiwan University, and once they invited me to give a speech in the Philosophy Department of National Taiwan University, and I spoke on the spot a passage from "Lao Tzu" that Chen Gu should annotate. The forty-second chapter of Lao Tzu says: The Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, and three to all things. All things bear the yin and embrace the yang, and the breath thinks that it is harmonious.
"What is 'negative yin and yang'? Chen Guying said, that is, everything is yin and yang, I laughed at my old classmate on the spot, saying that you are wrong, you should be holding yin and yang. He said why do you say that the word 'negative' means to hug, and 'negative' means to back.
As a result, Li Ao used the Chronicle of the Assassins and Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian as evidence: "Left and right nai said: 'Wang Negative Sword!'" Negative sword. Then he pulled out to strike Jingke. ”
Li Ao believes that the sword on his back cannot be taken out, and only by moving the sword to the chest can he draw it out, so he believes that "all things bear the yin and hold the yang" should be holding the yin and also holding the yang. "Service"
He thought he was very proud and said to the students attending the lecture: "If you who study philosophy really understand Lao Tzu, you still have to rely on people like Li Ao. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="9" > Li Ao's explanation is not as good as Chen Guying's</h1>
As an internationally renowned Taoist cultural scholar, Mr. Chen Guying's three editions of Lao Tzu's Translation Notes were also very fond of it. However, in the "criticism" of Lao Tzu, he believes that Lao Tzu was limited by the times and failed to see the fundamental driving force of social development, and that "Lao Tzu put the relationship between Tao and matter upside down", and said that "the Jixia school pushed Lao Tzu's Tao to materialism", and so on, and put down his book on the basis of such arguments alone. Because I don't think he understands Lao Tzu.
But even so, his interpretation of "negative yin and embracing yang" is much better than Li Ao's, although Chen Guying's understanding is also wrong.
In Lao Tzu's thought, all equivalents are opposites and unity, and since they are opposites, it is impossible to have both yin and yang in the chest, otherwise why does Lao Tzu say "negative yin and yang", and directly say that it is not better to embrace yin and yang?
Since yin and yang are unified, then they must be in the whole of "one", and they are mutually rooted, separating the two, how to root and interact with each other?
In fact, not only did Chen Gu make a mistake in his understanding of "negative yin and yang", but since the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there are few people who have not thought so. The river said that "all things are all negative yin and yang, and return to the heart and the sun", and since then it has set a precedent for "negative yin to yang". Yan Zun completely carried the river to the public saying "negative yin and yang".
Ma Shuli, a well-known cultural scholar in Taiwan, said: All things carry the yin and face the sun. This makes even more sense. Most of the four-legged ones carry the yang on their backs and face the yin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="14" > what does it mean to "negative yin and yang"? </h1>
"The Tao gives birth to one, two to two, two to three, and three to all things." All things negative yin and embrace yang, the "negative yin and embrace yang" in the "rush to think and " is a subject-verb joint phrase, intended to strengthen the tone, emphasizing that all things themselves have yin and yang, otherwise they cannot become "things", because the yin is not born, and the yang is not long.
Mr. Saponin Pao 3 offers a new way of thinking, he believes that "all things are negative and yang", whether they are carried on their backs or held, they can be put down, because they do not exist in themselves, but our hearts impose on him.
Since all things are yin and yang, why should they bear the yin and embrace the yang?
Yin and yang are originally one, and the reason why they are separated is because of people's "two" minds, such as "being and not", "beauty and evil", "right and wrong", "blessing and misfortune", etc., which literally decompose a thing into two opposites.
The so-called "negative yin and holding yang", whether it is carried on or held, yin and yang are one thing, as long as they are separated, then your "two" mind will also appear.