Chapter 8: The Confusion of Yin and Yang
"Yin and Yang, Yiyi, what does it mean? Why have I never heard of it?"
"Actually, I don't know much about it, but I heard my grandfather say that yin and yang are the beginning of all things. ”
"Grandpa said that since the birth of this heaven and earth, I don't know how many people have asked such a question, but no one has ever given an answer. Countless people have searched everywhere in their lives, and even if they exhaust their lives, it is like fishing for the moon in water, and it is in vain. ”
"As for the righteousness of yin and yang, mortals can get a glimpse of all of them, all of them are great sages and talents that come once in a thousand years, for soul cultivators, they can understand one or two, and they are all the top existences, and for doctors, it is the source of all medical skills. ”
"But with all that said, what does it mean? Can I see and touch it?"
"We are living in yin and yang now, Brother Xiaofeng, what do you say?"
"Let's take us as people, the soul is yin, the body is yang, the sky is yang, the earth is yin, and everything can be divided into yin and yang. It can't be seen or touched, as if it were nothing, but it can be seen everywhere and everywhere. In this world, there is a grass and a tree, a stone and a water, and each of us, even the essence, is yin and yang. ”
"It can be said that without it there is no man, no world, no universe and no earth. ”
"Brother Xiaofeng, that's all I know! If you're interested, you can ask again when Grandpa comes back. ”
"Okay, then let's take a look at this medical book first!" So, the two simply sat down cross-legged on the spot.
After listening to Yiyi's explanation, I was very interested in the strange patterns on the page, and subconsciously looked at it carefully. But unexpectedly, just as I was looking closely, it seemed that the whole pattern immediately rotated.
At first, it seemed to spin in a downward direction, but after two or three breaths, it seemed to rotate backwards.
And turning around, this pattern instantly transformed into a black and white monster, like a dragon and a snake, a pair of fiery red eyes stared at Xiao Feng viciously, and instantly flew towards him.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Feng was suddenly shocked.
He didn't expect such a change, and just wanted to turn his head sideways to dodge, but the monster that flew in seemed to suddenly burrow into the heavenly spirit and disappeared.
And as the monster burrowed into the heavenly spirit, Xiao Feng only felt a tremor in the depths of his soul, as if he had been shaken by something, as if it had been marked.
However, in this instant, such a strange feeling disappeared without a trace.
But when I came back to my senses and looked at the pattern in the scroll again, the pattern was still lying quietly in the pages of the book as it was when I first saw it, and there was no change.
"Hey, that's weird!"
"What's wrong, Brother Xiaofeng?"
"I saw this pattern move! And there's a monster flying into my platform!"
"Aren't you dazzled, this is an ordinary yin-yang diagram drawn on paper, how can it move?"
"Maybe I'm really dazzled!"
So, Xiaofeng had no choice but to continue to look down.
I saw that in the back volume it was written:
Anyone who studies medicine must first know yin and yang, and if he does not know yin and yang, he will not be able to be a doctor! Yin and yang are the beginning of heaven and earth, and the mother of all things. Medicine obeys yin and yang, and turns into five elements, and the five elements exist in the body, each with its own correspondence.
Looking at this esoteric and difficult cross, Xiao Feng suddenly frowned. However, his attention was quickly drawn to the pattern behind the text.
The patterns are all colorful and vibrant.
The first pattern, which Xiao Feng recognized, was depicting the internal organs of the human body.
The pattern is depicted so vividly and vividly that it is as if the viewer is facing a living human body.
And what made him feel incredible was that these internal organs were all marked with wood, metal, fire, water, and earth.
What made him even more strange was that under each internal organ and the pair of five elements, there were some small patterns marked under them.
These small patterns are all composed of horizontal lines, some three horizontal, some four-horizontal, and up to six horizontal.
It wasn't until many years later that Xiaofeng learned from Shennongzi that these small patterns were called hexagrams. But that's all for later.
Behind the pattern, there are five or six pages of text, all of which discuss the internal connection between the various internal organs and the relationship with the five elements.
Therefore, Xiaofeng didn't understand it, and began to memorize word by word.
Of course, he didn't recognize many words, so he had to ask Yiyi.
With Yiyi, a patient teacher, Xiaofeng naturally has no problem carrying it. In addition, he was already very human at this time, not only with great intelligence, but also with an amazing memory. In less than a quarter of an hour, it was all memorized.
This is followed by the second picture, which, unlike the previous one, depicts the external organs of the human body.
Each organ on it also corresponds to the number of the five elements of metal, wood, fire, water, and earth, and it also corresponds to the internal organs, and marks them one by one.
Behind the text, there are several pages of text describing the relationship between the organs, the five elements, and the internal organs.
For many things mentioned in the text, although Xiao Feng is open, he has never been in contact with medicine, so he naturally can't understand it, so he can only memorize it first.
However, from the third pattern, the style of painting has changed drastically. The paintings are all meridians of the human body, including 14 meridians and 8 strange meridians, as well as 365 acupuncture points on the human body.
Each pattern is followed by a large amount of text explaining the pattern.
Although he didn't understand these patterns and the meaning of the text, Xiao Feng became more and more interested in it, and even later, some things that he didn't understand could be comprehended.
Before you know it, the sun is gradually setting in the west.
At this time, Xiaofeng also memorized nearly half of the book, and finally finished reading the last incomprehensible pattern. I counted them, and there were sixty-four drawings in total.
Closing the scroll, Xiaofeng couldn't help but sort out his thoughts in his heart.
As far as he understands so far, these patterns not only analyze the human body, meridians, and acupuncture points extremely thoroughly, but also talk a lot about the five elements and yin and yang.
Although he didn't understand much, he still had an opinion of his own. What is said in these patterns and texts can be summed up in two sentences:
One core, two relationships.
In Xiaofeng's view, the so-called core is that these patterns and words are all told around the soul in the human body.
Because through the book, the meridians and acupuncture points are the branches of the soul, and since the book has always revolved around the meridians and acupuncture points, it is naturally around the soul.
As for what the pattern he didn't understand was talking about, it was unknown.
The so-called two relationships are the relationship between the soul body and the human body and internal organs, and the second is the relationship between the soul and the essence.