"Old Chen, is this good?" Lin Xiao asked.

"What's wrong, didn't I hint at everything." Chen Xuan replied with a nonchalant face.

"Hint? Old Chen, when did you prompt it? Lin Xiao asked puzzled.

"Think about it, what I just said." Chen Xuan sold Guanzi.

"What I just said." Lin Xiao thought about it, went through Chen Xuan's words before, and found that there was no hint at all.

"Old Chen, I still don't understand." Lin Xiao said shyly, he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand what it meant at all.

"Think about what I said before, what's so special?" Chen Xuan continued to sell Guan Zi and said mysteriously.

"49 pillars, there are seven colors of crystal balls hidden, the task is to find seven crystal balls of different colors, and return here safely with the crystal balls, only then can you be considered promoted, Old Chen, this is what you said before, right?" Lin Xiao repeated Chen Xuan's previous words.

"Well, that's pretty much it." Chen Xuan nodded.

"What's the hint for that?" Lin Xiao thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't notice it.

"Lin Xiaoyou, what do you think is special about this sentence? In other words, what is so special about it, can you see it? Chen Xuan slowly explained.

"What's so special? It's just a very ordinary sentence, where does it come from? Lin Xiao was surprised.

"Think again." Chen Xuan said expectantly.

"Is it 49 and 7?" Lin Xiao's head was almost dizzy, if there was anything special. It's just two numbers.

"Lin Xiaoyou guessed correctly, hint, it's among these two numbers." Chen Xuan saw that Lin Xiao had guessed it, nodded and said.

"49 and 7? What's the point of that? Lin Xiao gestured at the two numbers, without a clue.

"Let me start with the number 7, which in modern vernacular means a mysterious starry sky." Chen Xuanjie said.

"Could it be that what crystal ball is in the sky?" When Lin Xiao heard this, he immediately forked.

"Not in heaven." Chen Xuan shook his head and said.

"Listen to me and you'll understand." Chen Xuan no longer pretends to be mysterious.

The cult of the word "7" originated in primitive astronomy, and in ancient societies where productivity and science were extremely backward, the ancients hoped that the mysterious starry sky would tell them something. The ancients believed that people were related to the stars. The human soul is a part of the heavens. Therefore. Astrologers had a very prominent position in ancient society. Chen Xuan can be said to be so knowledgeable that he even reads some books that are so remote and writes them down.

"The Semites who founded the ancient kingdom of Babylon believed in all seven gods and worshipped them. And convinced that they take turns in power. dominates the vicissitudes of the world. Thereupon. The Semitic ancestors evolved the fear of the gods of the seven stars into their ancient religion. They made seven altars, offered seven sacrifices, and bowed seven times...... Day after day, year after year, gradually, the "seven" abstracted from their devout totemic worship rituals. It became a solemn symbol and was finally integrated into the new monotheistic religion. Chen Xuan was selling ink, and he was also gushing, and the faces of the people next to Gao Qiao were like this, so they knew Chen Xuan's previous style, and it seemed that Gao Qiao and the others had been destroyed a lot.

"Wait, Old Chen, do these have anything to do with the answer?" Lin Xiao put forward his opinion.

"Well, let me finish talking about it first, okay?" Chen Xuan said with a little embarrassment that he knew that he had made his old mistake again, and he wanted to show off when he opened his mouth, this was a habit and it was difficult to correct.

This traditional cultural influence has developed into modern times, so the "7" character has become a sacred and mysterious number in English-speaking countries, which has a wide and far-reaching impact on Western culture and even the culture of the whole world, and it affects all aspects of people's work and life. For example, there are the "Seven Sages of Greece", "Seven Patriarchs", "Seven Virtues", "Seven Deadly Sins", "Seven Heavens", "Seven Gifts of God", "Seven Sacraments", "Seven Guardian Saints", "Seven Good Deeds", and so on. All these fully demonstrate the extensive application of the "seven" in religious culture. Chen Xuan ignored Lin Xiao's expression in the clouds, and finally seized the opportunity to show off his literary heritage, how could he let it go.

"After talking about the foreign 7, let's talk about the domestic 7." Chen Xuan took a sip of water, and said how difficult it was at one time, and his mouth was a little thirsty.

Lin Xiao was already sluggish for Chen Xuan's endless talk, he didn't expect that Chen Xuan still had such a side, he was simply destroying people, he talked for a long time, and he didn't even talk about the key points, which was completely the opposite of his usual life.

In traditional Chinese culture, 7 is the sum of yin and yang and the five elements, which is the state of Confucianism so-called "harmony", and also the so-called "Tao" or "qi" of Taoism, all of which are closely related to "goodness" and "beauty". Chen Xuan said.

"Huh? Gone? Lin Xiao waited for Chen Xuan to talk again, but he didn't expect that after only saying a word, Chen Xuan stopped, and after waiting for nearly a minute, Chen Xuan didn't mean to continue to speak, and asked in a stunned manner.

"No, does Lin Xiaoyou still want to hear it? Then I can continue. Chen Xuan said with a happy face, he thought that Lin Xiao liked to listen to his tirade.

"No, no, no, Old Chen, hurry up and reveal the mystery, what does 7 have to do with the hint?" Lin Xiao cried with a sad face, his head shook like a rattle, and secretly said in his heart, who wants to continue to listen to this, I want to know the mystery.

"Hmm!! Hasn't Lin Xiao guessed it yet? Chen Xuan was stunned for a moment, thinking that after saying so much, Lin Xiao must have understood.

"Huh? What did you say? Lin Xiao was confused, as for the tirade just now, it was good that he didn't fall asleep, how could there be any answer in it.

"Don't you understand, then I'll tell you again." Chen Xuan said with a smile.

"No, no need." Lin Xiao hurriedly shook his hand.

"Okay, Lin Xiaoyou, I won't tease you anymore, 7, it represents the Big Dipper, you look at the north, do you see those small hillsides, the so-called crystal balls are buried in them." Chen Xuan revealed the answer.

"Then Old Chen, you just talked so much, what's the use?" Lin Xiao looked at Chen Xuan speechlessly, saying so many things with black lines, what the hell was going on.

"This, haha......" Chen Xuan smiled awkwardly, he couldn't say that he suddenly wanted to show off his knowledge.

"This deception is really miserable." Lin Xiao sighed for those who had entered the 49 pillars.

The pillar is placed on the west side, and the real place where the crystal ball is buried is on the north side, which is completely the opposite of the other, Lin Xiao mourned for the contestants for two seconds.

"By the way, Old Chen, isn't there 2 of these numbers? What does that 49 mean? Lin Xiao suddenly remembered that the hint that Chen Xuan had just said seemed to be more than one, and there was also a 49.

"From 0 to nine is the evolution of the Taoist cosmology, 0 is Taiji, the "nothing" of nothingness, the chaotic state of the avenue, it is difficult to express with images and symbols, so the ancients used a circle to represent it, O It is chaos, but also chaos, congenital Yiqi, mixed yuan Yiqi. It is the most mysterious and incredible state at the beginning of the avenue. From the time we use an O to represent "nothing", this is already the beginning of "being", which is the so-called Tao giving birth to one, since this one is generated, then it has an ontology, and the ontology has a contrasting relationship with the external void, the ontology of the Great Dao is yang, and the external void is yin. At this point, it is the so-called Tai Chi Shengliangyi. Tao begets one, one begets two, and two begets three. Refer to the Tao Te Ching, three represents the three talents of heaven, earth and man, four represents the four elephants, and five represents the five elements,......... By analogy, it is the same as Yili. To nine is the number of poles, the largest number in the single digit, which is the yang number. And nine nines are eighty-one, which is the number of pure yangs of the yang. Why do Chinese like yang and not yin? It is said in the Tao Te Ching that all things have negative yin and embrace yang. The living are yang and the dead are yin, and yang is beneficial to the living, so of course we want auspicious numbers. So nine and eighty-one are both numbers that ancient people liked. The same is true of seven-seven-forty-nine. Chen Xuan once again spoke at length, making Lin Xiao's face green, can you not be so pitiful? Who wants to listen to this, I want to know what the mystery is, Lin Xiao seemed to have ten thousand horses galloping in his heart, and the corners of his eyes kept twitching, and he couldn't bear the anger in his heart.

"Stop, I said Old Chen, I want the answer to the mystery." Lin Xiao felt that he was about to explode if he endured it, and hurriedly shouted.

"Lin Xiaoyou, don't worry, wait for me to narrate slowly." Chen Xuan still had an unhurried and unhurried expression, and he didn't see Lin Xiao's face darkening at all.

"The Tao is natural, "the number of the Great Yan is fifty, and its use is forty and there are nine", the ancients divided the method of divination and divination. Divination is mainly made with tortoise shell, and Zheng is mainly made with yarrow. The method of initiating the hexagram is described in the Book of Changes. There is a detailed explanation in the "Dictionaries", take fifty yarrow, leave one without use, only use forty-nine hexagrams, it is generally believed that the number of Dayan is fifty, so take fifty yarrow to represent all things in heaven and earth. The one that is not used means the Tai Chi before the heaven and earth are alive, so the actual hexagram only uses forty-nine yarrows, saying so much, just to let Lin Xiaoyou understand what it means to escape the one, and the second prompt, that is, what I said before, the escaped one. Chen Xuan, who had been talking nonsense for a long time, finally returned to the topic.

"The escaped one?" Lin Xiao asked suspiciously.

"Yes, it's the one who has escaped." Chen Xuan nodded affirmatively.

"That is, the mystery is one?" Lin Xiao asked uncertainly.

"Yes." Chen Xuan nodded.

"What's so important about this?" Lin Xiao was confused, speaking of which, wouldn't it be an alternative to convert the concept of 49 into 1, as for saying so much nonsense, he still didn't have a clue at all. (To be continued......)