Chapter 4 Culture Needs a Book of Exegesis

The gods of the Heavenly Dao have always been unfathomable, only the oracles of the Apocalypse occasionally flash in the netherworld. The Yellow River occasionally saw the back picture of Ma Long, and the "Book of Changes" began to circulate and flourish, and Luoshui rarely encountered the turtle negative book, so that "Hong Fan" had a prominent reputation. Therefore, in "Zhou Yi Zhi Ci", there is a saying that "the river produces a map, Luo produces a book, and the sage makes it". However, after a long time, due to the lack of records of the cause and effect, bizarre rumors are frequent, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Although the six classics of "poetry, calligraphy, rituals, music, Yi, and Spring and Autumn" are famous, the accompanying weft books are also becoming more and more numerous. For example, the "Book of Filial Piety" and "Analects", which promote the Six Classics, themselves clarify the righteousness, but the "Hook" and "Prophecy" that explain the "Book of Filial Piety" and "Treatise" have become obscure and difficult to understand. If the scriptures must be interpreted and validated by the weft script, then the reason why the current weft book is regarded as false and untrue can be mainly based on the following four aspects:

On the one hand, the relationship between the scriptures and the weft books should be like the warp and weft threads on the loom, and the materials and specifications of the two must complement each other in order to weave into practical cloth. Today's scriptures are straightforward, but the weft books are treacherous and mysterious, and the deviation between the two in terms of standard specifications has been more than a thousand miles away, isn't it bizarre;

In the two, the scriptures are the divine power of carrying forward the sermons of the ancient sages, while the weft books are only the spiritual symbols that convey the oracle of the apocalypse. Therefore, the scriptures should be broad and incisive, while the weft books should be subtle and simple. However, it is not surprising that the weft books are more numerous and complicated than the scriptures at present;

Three, what is a "symbol"? It is just a manifestation of the Destiny of Heaven. However, the eighty-one books of Confucius in circulation are all said to be the works of Confucius, and it is said that Tang Yao had a dragon and a horse to draw out the river map of the "Chiwen Greenland", and King Wen of Zhou saw the Luo book of "Red Sparrow Beak Title", which is not ridiculous;

Fourth, before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the image symbols of the oracles of the apocalypse did appear frequently. Therefore, in the late Spring and Autumn period, all kinds of scriptures could be organized and completed one after another. However, the current book of weft is often said to mature before the scriptures, just as weaving cloth first weft and then warp, is not too wrong.

After listing the paradoxes of the current weft book above, it is self-evident how to distinguish the true and false weft books and their meanings. In fact, the scriptures are enough to set an example for the ages, so why should the weft books be indiscriminately filled.

The images or symbols of the oracles of the Apocalypse were originally only interactions between heaven, earth and man, announcing the auspiciousness or bad omen of the operation of the world, and were not at all for the purpose of publicizing the scriptures. Therefore, Heluo no longer produced symbols, and Confucius sighed on his back. If the Hetuluo Book can be forged, why should the saint sigh? In the past, King Kang of Zhou displayed the "River Map" in the east wing, which shows that the emperor has always regarded the Fu as a treasure passed down from generation to generation, and what Confucius did was to sort out the records. However, Fang Technician, the ghost words are clever, far-fetched yin and yang, attached to the fierce auspicious, just like the birdsong is like human words, and like insects and leaves like words, among them, all the books that add branches and leaves to this are all pretended to be done by the old master Confucius himself. Hongru's pursuit of this kind of fake and fraudulent atmosphere originated from the period of Emperor Wai and Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty. Since then, the palace no longer believes in ancestral talismans, and is bewitched by the colors of the left side door. At the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, such a trend was popular, and the followers followed one after another. Liu Fu (Emperor Guangwu's second son, Feng Pei Wang's death), was good at studying Wei Wei, and was ashamed to create the "Five Classics", and Cao Bao (birth and death unknown, the word Shutong, and the Xue people of Lu State in the Eastern Han Dynasty) were ordered to write an article "Han Li", and quoted Wei Wei in a grand manner. There is no such thing as a so-called deviant. So, Huan Tan (23 BC?) - Around 56 A.D., the character Junshan Peiguo Xiangren) angrily denounced hypocrisy and untruthfulness, Yin Min (one of the representatives of the Confucian ancient literature and scriptures in the early Eastern Han Dynasty) frowned sarcastically, exaggerated and self-deceptive, Zhang Heng (78-139 A.D. Pingzi Nanyang Xi'e people) angrily exposed and criticized the perverse and arrogant, Xun Yue (148-209 A.D. Zhongyu Yingchuan Yingyin people) wrote a book accusing treacherous and biased. The four virtuous men have extensive knowledge and profound knowledge, so their evaluation and argumentation can be called meticulous.

Tracing the legends of the Fuxi, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, and Shaohao eras, there are indeed interactive stories of changes in mountains and rivers and likes and dislikes of music. In the era of King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, like the talisman of the white fish and the red black, and then like the auspicious rui of the yellow silver and purple jade, the content of the records is not only strange and varied, but the fundamental problem is that most of them are empty words. Therefore, some books like this are obviously of little practical use for scriptures that focus on factual content, but may have a certain reference value for people who write general articles. Because of this, when Zhang Heng played Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent the poison of the study of Wei Wei, he once advocated cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and giving a thorough eradication. However, Xun Yue does not advocate the complete negation and complete burning of the study of the weft, and he regrets that the real historical materials are preserved in it. Therefore, the weft book (or the study of weft) that appeared in conjunction with the scriptures of the predecessors is not useless. Therefore, it is still necessary to have a separate chapter and give a detailed explanation.

All in all: the splendid Yellow River, the warm Luoshui! The nurture of the symbolic weft is like an inexhaustible treasure, announcing the aura of the moral article. After the ravages of the two Han Dynasty, the Lingbao is of different colors, and the audio-visual is confused. It's not the right way to be treacherous, but it's a pity that the pearls in it are secretly cast and the literature is fluttering.