Therefore, it is easy to have Tai Chi. Is to give birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. Gossip determines good or bad luck, and good or bad luck breeds great cause.
Interpretation: All things and phenomena in the vast universe include both yin and yang, as well as exterior and interior. But they are both antagonistic and interdependent, which is the general law of the material world, the procedure and origin of many things, and the fundamental reason for the emergence and destruction of things. The way of heaven and earth creates everything with yin and yang.
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On the time of the Book of Changes;
1, said before the Warring States Period. It is believed that the beginning of the article, "Heaven honors the earth" and a large number of Taoist terms in the article have been seen in Confucius' disciple Gongsun Nizi's Yue Ji, which can be proved as the early and middle period of the Warring States Period.
2. In the late Warring States period, it is said that this biography was written one after another, and the interpretation of divination was based on Xun and Xiang, so it was after Xun and Xiang.
There are other sayings, such as Zuo Shi in Qin Dynasty and Zuo Shi in Han Dynasty.
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