Mu Baichuan understood the importance of the gossip map, although his energy was a little difficult to keep up with because of his age, he still took the trouble to read it:

The most basic unit of gossip is the yao, which is mostly a special symbol that describes the change of the sun and shadow. There are two types of yin and yang, yang means sunshine and yin means moonlight. Each hexagram has three lines, representing the three talents of heaven, earth and man. The celestial part of the three talents, including the movement of the entire celestial body and meteorological changes, these astrological phenomena were called astronomy in ancient times. The earth refers to the method of calculating the annual cycle by observing the sun's shadow, and using the principle of the land to understand the whole process of growth and collection. The Ministry of Human Affairs refers to the combination of astronomy, geography, and human affairs in order to produce and live according to these laws. The order of each hexagram is from the bottom up, the lowest horizontal is called the first line, the middle one is called the second line, and the first horizontal line is called the third line.

Bagua represents eight basic objects: dry is the sky, Kun is the earth, earthquake is thunder, Xun is the wind, Gen is the mountain, Dui is Ze, Kan is water, and Li is fire, which is collectively called the Sutra Hexagram, and the permutations and combinations of two of the eight Sutra Hexagrams constitute the sixty-four hexagrams.

Seeing this, Mu Baichuan sighed, the world is so big, there are gossip.

The common Bagua diagram is a simple diagram developed by Fu Xi based on the river map and the Luo Shu map. Later, many definitions were added on the basis of this diagram, which were specially used for divination, and it became the Fuxi Bagua diagram. The simple diagram, the predecessor of the Bagua Diagram, is a tool to guide people on how to govern and conform to nature and understand nature, as well as a tool to guide people in their lives for production, hunting, and life. Later, people used divination, and there were many inventions and ideas on this map, which was widely spread among the people and said to be the Fuxi Bagua map.

The innate gossip talks about confrontation, that is, the eight types of objects represented by the gossip, heaven and earth, wind and thunder, mountains, rivers, water and fire are divided into four groups to explain its yin and yang confrontation relationship. "Zhou Yi?? In the "Legend of Hexagrams", the confrontation between the two hexagrams is called the positioning of heaven and earth; The confrontation between the two hexagrams is called thunder and wind; Gen is opposite to the two hexagrams, which is called Shanze ventilation; The two hexagrams are opposed, called fire and water, to indicate the confrontation between these different things. According to the content of the above schema, the innate gossip can be divided into three cycles:

The first cycle: from the left of the Kun hexagram, indicating that the winter solstice is the first yang to be born, starting in the north; From the right side of the Qiangua, it means that the summer solstice is the first yin to be born, starting from the south, and this cycle refers to the innermost circle of the innate Bagua diagram, that is, it is composed of the first hexagram. This cold and summer indicates the movement of the sun in a cycle of the year.

The second cycle: It is composed of the hexagram in the hexagram, and the half-circle yang line indicates that the sun rises from the east during the day and passes through the south to the west; The half-circle of the shadow represents the night after the sun sets, which is a cyclical image of the sun's movement for one day.

The third cycle: It is composed of the hexagram and the yin line, which represents the first half of the moon's movement, that is, the new moon; The half-circle of the yang indicates the second half of the moon's movement, which is the chord. It can be seen that this image is a unified year, month, day, and time cycle.

The day after tomorrow gossip map is different. The eight lectures on the day after tomorrow are popular, describing the cycle cycle, such as the water epidemic, which is used to represent the dependence and mutual root of yin and yang, and the mother and child of the five elements. The day after tomorrow is the law derived from the passage of time and the growth of all things.

From "Zhou Yi?? It can be seen in the "Legend of Hexagrams" that the spring birth, summer length, autumn harvest, and winter storage of all things are strange for 360 days every Sunday, and the gossip is used for 45 days, and its transition point is manifested in the eight sections of the four positive and four even, which constitutes the acquired gossip diagram that runs in a clockwise direction.

Each hexagram has three lines, three and eight, that is, the twenty-four solar terms of the year, which shows the essence of these hexagrams.

Dry three times, Kun six broken;

Shake the bowl, cover the bowl;

Away from the void, the ridge is full;

Replace the upper shortage, Xun lower break.

Xianzhe wrote this slip to facilitate the memory of future generations.

"Zhou Yi" and Bagua were a cultural and ideological system widely used by all social strata in ancient China, and politicians, rulers, and military strategists used them to strategize and govern the country and secure the country. The common people use it as a tool for health preservation, predicting good and bad fortunes, and making profits in business...... The difference between the level of practical application of "Zhou Yi" and Bagua lies in the depth of each person's understanding of the meaning of "Zhou Yi" and Bagua. Those who are proficient in "Zhou Yi" and gossip should be sages and heroes, and have the ability to clear the heavens and the earth.

For thousands of years, the Bagua diagram has been arranged and combined in a strict and logical way, just like the axioms of mathematics, which cannot be changed. There are explanatory texts of different periods and schools of thought in the interpretation and understanding of the Zhou Yi and the Bagua diagram. From ancient times to the present, the origin of the Bagua map has always been a mystery, and no one has been able to come up with scientifically based facts to analyze the complete origin of the Bagua map.

In "Zhou Yi?? There are descriptions of the totemic attributes that show the specific location of the Bagua diagram, such as "Qian is a horse, Kun is a cow, Zhen is a dragon, Xun is a chicken, Kan is a pig, Li is a pheasant, Gen is a dog, and Dui is a sheep." There is also "dry as the head, Kun as the abdomen, shock as the foot, Kan as the ear, separation as the eye, Gen as the hand, and exchange as the mouth." "Wait, if you combine the above Bagua Diagram totem attributes, you have "Qian, horse head; kun, ox belly; Shock, Dragon's Foot; Xun, chicken stock; Kan, pig ear; Away, pheasant; Gen, dog hand; With, sheep's mouth. "The totemic attributes of gossip are quite clear and concrete. What is the meaning of the totemic image of gossip?

The images of horses, cows, sheep, dragons, chickens, pigs, pheasants, and dogs referred to by the Bagua totem attribute can be reflected in the three-dimensional plane map of the earth's surface, and the totem image presents a corresponding state with the earth's geographical structure, so the Bagua map is also associated with the earth's geography.

And these, Mu Baichuan seriously thought of the root cause: "Dry, horse head; kun, ox belly; Shock, Dragon's Foot; With, sheep's mouth. "The attributes of the gossip totem are reflected in the geographical form of the earth, Kan, pig ears; Gen, dog hand; "The Bagua totem attribute can also be reflected in the geographical environment of the earth. We can see from this that all the yin and yang pairs of hexagrams correspond to the Fuxi Bagua diagram, but there are differences in the attributes of yin and yang in the Zhen hexagram and Xun hexagram, or they are reversed. The arrangement of the yin and yang lines in such a gossip diagram is more in line with the law of change of yin and yang.

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Mu Baichuan firmly remembered "Zhou Yi?? The analysis in the "Dictionaries", "The ancients Bao Xi's king of the world also, looking up at the sky, looking down at the law on the ground, watching birds and beasts and the appropriateness of the earth, close to the body, far from all things, so he began to gossip, with the virtue of the gods, with the feelings of all things." "It's meaningful.

Totem worship is a wide range of cultural symbiosis phenomenon in ancient primitive societies, ancient totem culture is mostly associated with geography, the totem worship culture handed down from ancient primitive societies is characterized by shape and ideology, and the gossip map is also a part of totem worship culture.

Mu Baichuan closed the book, and he knew that he had benefited a lot.

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