Eight diagrams can be found under the copula of the Book of Changes: "The ancients listed the king of the Xi family in the world, looking up at the sky and looking down at the land law; Bird-watching articles and land suitability; Close to the body, far from everything, so gossip, to understand the virtues of the gods, the feelings of all things. " Eight diagrams are born out of Tai Chi, with two instruments and four images, and "four images give birth to eight diagrams".
It is also an abstruse concept in the ancient culture of China, and a set of metaphysical philosophical symbols composed of three groups of Yin and Yang. His profound philosophy explains natural and social phenomena.
The origin of rumors
1, Fuxi painted eight diagrams in Guatai Mountain, and later there were Fuxi painting tables in Tianshui, Gansu and Henan.
Guatai Mountain, also known as Guatai, is said to be the place where Fu began to draw gossip when observing astronomy and geography. Located at the northern end of Sanyang in western Sichuan, it now governs Weinan Town in Maiji District. Of course, many modern scholars do not believe that future generations entrusted some inventions to ancient celebrities.
2. Zhang's hexagrams evolved into gossip theory in multiple steps.
His article "A Trial Interpretation of Yi Gua in the Early Zhou Dynasty" studied a number of digital hexagrams unearthed in the 20th century, and thought that there were a large number of hexagrams at first, then they were simplified into several hexagrams, and then these specific values were simplified into binary parity numbers (expressed by one or six numbers) in the Warring States period.
From the end of the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, it evolved into an abstract binary symbol of Yin and Yang (common in later generations), and the philosophy of Yin and Yang originated very late. This theory has a great contradiction with the records of some ancient books and has a great influence.
3. Liu Linying's six astronomical hexagrams evolved into the gossip theory.
His "A New Solution to the Mystery of the Origin of the Book of Changes" expounds the six-hexagram system theory, and holds that hexagrams originated from the prediction activities of astronomers' divination tools. The original hexagram was a six-hexagram system, without divination and deviation, and later evolved into a gossip system. The important evidence is that the six hexagrams system (such as Yin San Sanyang) is the backbone theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be explained by gossip. The moon hexagrams in the six hexagrams system can be traced in the process of returning to Tibet and the Book of Changes.
Later, the paper "A Textual Research on the Use of Six Images in Digital divination in Shang and Zhou Dynasties" denied that Yi divination originated from divination theory, and demonstrated that the four images divination method before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was based on six images. The complicated divination figures are only the figures of six images and their changes, while the six images of Yin and Yang are essentially