We all know the Six Arts of the West: rituals, music, archery, and numbers, but do you know why the ancients practiced the Six Arts? In fact, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the nobles attached great importance to the immortal culture, among which Jiang Ziya played an important role. Jiang Ziya was profound in Taoism and assisted the king of Zhou to unify the country and maintain the country's longevity for 800 years. The Six Arts are actually a very specific and complete Taoist practice system.
Taoist practice regards essence, energy and spirit as the three treasures, and its specific method is the six arts, namely: performing rituals and music, performing exercises, shooting, controlling and refining energy, and counting books to nourish essence.
1. Ritual and music performance
Ritual and music refer to etiquette, music, dance and blessings. Ritual and music are manifestations of social civilization, representing people's respect for nature, heaven and earth, and mutual respect between people. Ritual and music please God, and receive blessings and protection from God. Le is the sound of nature, its traditional form is "乐". According to legend, the oldest musical instrument in China is the cucurbit flute. Gourd also means fortune and longevity. "White" represents soul, the god of acquired nature and the god of day. Liturgy is dedicated to the innate god/god, while music heals the acquired god/original god. Ritual and music constitute the yin and yang aspects of acting as gods.
? Later Taoist/TCM practitioners used six-character health-preserving formulas to nourish the mind: 呬/lungs, heh/heart, exhale/spleen, hush/liver, blow/kidney, hee/triple burner, which also originated from this.
2. Sheyu Qi Training
The core of Sheheyu is riding and archery, chariot driving and archery. Its training includes riding, archery, qigong, acupuncture, and Tai Chi. , martial arts and art of war, etc., to train and shape a strong body, an open mind, and a harmonious wisdom, and to cultivate military talents and leadership talents.
3. The number of books nourishes the spirit.
? Calligraphy and numerology include calligraphy and painting, talismans, literature, numerology, and Yi Jing/Mountain Doctor divination. Use softness to overcome hardness (brush), and investigate things to gain knowledge. These knowledge and skills require persistent efforts, and only by accumulating sand into a tower can we achieve something. In other words, by accumulating energy and energy, we can achieve something.
? Physiologically speaking, the brain is the sea of ??marrow, and the marrow stores essence. Exercising and developing the brain also nourishes essence.