Chapter 49: Three Changes
Tang Kaiyuan in Yanshi County peasants cultivated land unearthed copper plate inscription, after historians identified this copper plate inscription as the fifth generation of the Zhou Dynasty king Zhou Mu Wang according to the original text written by King Wu of Zhou another new copper plate inscription, this is a discovery recorded in the historical archives, is historical. Here is a question: before this, Zhou Wu Wang Feng Bigan for some reasons did not succeed after leaving the mysterious copper plate inscription, this important historical event was also included in the history books, but at that time the books were all words, there was no picture style, "Historical Records" recorded in the Zhou Wu Wang Wen said: "so that future generations know the origin of heaven and earth, the place of the characters from their own." The meaning of this passage is to make future generations aware of the cause of the formation of all things between heaven and earth, and the characters will appear naturally.
Feng Qiyun said to Cha Wenbin: "According to this passage, King Wu of Zhou did leave a sentence of language, and it is to let future generations know the cause of all things between heaven and earth. And another very important point is that as far as I know, most of the warlocks now use the acquired gossip left by King Wen of Zhou for divination operations? I judge that in the Yin Shang period, people's ability to calculate divination was far greater than it is now, and they were even able to perceive the heavens through innate gossip, so that in that era, myths arose. The end of the Age of Mythology had an inexplicable relationship with this change of gossip, and King Wu of Zhou knew that this ability was powerful enough to destroy a country, because he relied on this ability to overthrow the tyranny of King Zhou. Since ancient times, the most terrible imperial heart, if you have a tool in your hand that can destroy a dynasty, and this tool can be used by others, then what will you do? ”
Cha Wenbin said without hesitation: "Destroy it, Brother Feng, you really reminded me that there have been three supreme classics in Chinese history, namely the Xia Dynasty's "Lianshan Yi", the Shang Dynasty's "Returning to Tibet" and the Zhou Dynasty's "Zhou Yi", these three books are called the Three Changes.
These three books are the pinnacle of ancient wisdom, but also one of the laws of the emperors of the past dynasties, the history books record, "Lianshan" hidden in Lantai, "Returning to Tibet" hidden in Taibu, but later did not know where to go has become a mystery in the field of Chinese culture. My master once said that the two Yi are the same as the Zhou Yi and are derived from the innate gossip of Fuxi, and the corresponding era is the three corresponding social forms of tribal alliance, coexistence of all nations and emperor autocracy. In fact, the dating of the myth also explains the reason why Yi has not reappeared from one side:
I always wonder if the later generations are not as smart as the ancients? You see that our people now have produced all kinds of unbelievable advanced equipment and instruments, but in the field of thought, we, the descendants of advanced and highly civilized, are still studying the "Zhou Yi" three thousand years ago, which is a paradox, why the progress of the times and the development of civilization did not have the fourth "Yi", on the contrary, there were three "Yi" in that wild era, and also let the descendants bow down and worship, with all their lives to devote their efforts.
It has been 3,000 years since King Wen of Zhou, and the Fuxi gossip has never deduced a new "Yi", is the follow-up society no longer needs a new "Yi"? I don't think so! If you don't need it, there won't be anyone studying "Zhou Yi",
But in the past three thousand years, Fuxi gossip has become a kind of dead picture that cannot be interpreted again, because people are no longer clear about its deduction principle and deduction method, so they can no longer deduce a new "Yi" from it to guide social change, and the Chinese can only live in the "Yi" of "Zhou Yi", and cannot get out!
Religion and belief will become the tools of the ruler to some extent, and the high degree of unity in the spiritual realm will make the rule easier and simpler.
And along with the interpretation principle and deduction method of Fuxi gossip, there are also "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi", two "Yi" deduced from Fuxi gossip, today's people not only no longer understand the deduction method and deduction principle of Fuxi Bagua, but even what is going on with "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi" is impossible to investigate, because they have been destroyed cleanly. ”
Feng Qiyun agreed: "Yi is the foundation of Chinese culture, is the origin of everything, the correct way of calculating the innate gossip has long been destroyed, this is the greatest catastrophe in the history of Chinese culture, Qin Shi Huang's book burning pit Confucianism, Emperor Qianlong's compilation of the "Four Libraries" can not be compared with it. Because the deduction method and principle of Fuxi gossip are the root of all Chinese culture, from the moment it was destroyed, Chinese culture has become a kind of rootless wood and sourceless water, and what Qin Shi Huang and Qianlong burned is just the "end" of Chinese culture. ”
"You have solved a doubt in my heart," Cha Wenbin said, "How did Lao Tzu's Taoist thought come about?" What culture inspired Lao Tzu? With Lao Tzu's thinking and strength alone, is it really possible to independently complete all the thoughts of the Tao Te Ching? The essence of the Tao is indescribable in one sentence, which even he understands, and what is the relationship between the Tao Te Ching, as the source of Taoist thought, and the Fuxi gossip?
Isn't the ideological proposition of "Tao Te Ching" related to "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi"? As Lao Tzu, who is respected as the Qing Dynasty by later generations, why can't he be like King Wen of Zhou, and deduce another "Yi" from the innate gossip to guide the social development at that time, but choose the helpless road of "riding a green ox out of the letter" to retreat?
Similarly, there is also a thinker Confucius, who records in the history books that in order to understand what was said in the "Zhou Yi", Confucius made the "Wei compilation of the three uniques" kung fu dish to get his wish, and since then he has promoted the thought of "Zhou Yi", which has become Confucius's lifelong goal.
This all shows that in the Spring and Autumn Period where Lao Tzu and Confucius lived, the deduction method and principle of innate gossip no longer existed, and it could not be deduced! The time of the Shang Dynasty was there, the time of King Wen of Zhou, and only a few hundred years later, the Spring and Autumn Period did not exist, so it can be concluded that the deduction method and principle of Fuxi gossip were destroyed during this period of the Shang Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty! It is precisely because it has been destroyed, since the algorithms that can be miraculous have disappeared, and in the same way, there will be no new chapters in mythology. Then, King Wu of Zhou accurately predicted that the character would naturally appear, whether this character is the person he locked the tomb of Feng Bigan, that is, the successor of Zhou, this successor of Zhou will regain the correct interpretation method of innate gossip, and it is very likely to open the next myth! ”
"In this way, the correct interpretation of the innate gossip is inextricably linked to the ten hexagrams that disappeared," Feng Qiyun said: "This is a legacy from thousands of years ago, and it is the foundation of everything in the mythological era. By now, I have finally fully understood: the so-called successors of the Zhou Dynasty and the mythical era and what secrets are hidden in it, Brother Wen Bin, if I guess correctly, it is very likely that there are ancient materials of that era still preserved under this reservoir, and this information needs you to open it. It's not so much that King Wu of Zhou chose you, it's that fate chose you! Innate gossip also originates from the Tao, as long as the Tao is not destroyed, it will naturally not be destroyed, someone can find it and destroy it, someone can rediscover it again and find it and use it! ”
Looking at the rain outside the tent, Cha Wenbin said secretly: "The Tao is not extinguished, the heart is not extinguished, and the gossip is not extinguished!" ”
From this analysis, the copper plate that Jia Daoshi saw was the real copper plate inscription forged by King Wu of Zhou, and the other piece of King Mu of Zhou was found during the Tang Dynasty, and it was that copper plate that determined the location of Bigan's tomb. It's hard to say that this is not a wrong signal, why did King Zhou Mu, as a descendant of King Wu, want to do such a thing?
One of the easiest to explain is probably the journey of King Mu to the west recorded in the "Biography of Mu Tianzi", when it was said that he met the Queen Mother of the West in Yaochi, according to Jia Daoshi, Yaochi is the opening of the previous myth, symbolizing the glory of the first generation of "Yi". The copper plate inscription should be the treasure map left by King Mu of Zhou as the location of Yaochi, so there will be the story of King Mu guarding the treasure in Kunlun Chung Mountain, and the first generation of copper plate inscription is to record the location of the real Bigan tomb, which is the location of today's Molin Reservoir.
It was night, and it was raining heavily, but the Merlin Reservoir was brightly lit. That year, the whole of northwest Zhejiang was experiencing a once-in-a-century flood, and after that flood receded, many strange things were salvaged in the river, including several bronzes that are still in museums, and some say that they were really knocked down in the blasting of the Merlin Reservoir.
"How much manpower does this take?" After dinner, the fat man stood by the tent and watched the dense lights around the reservoir, and the high-powered pumps took turns while the high-pressure pumps washed away the thick silt at the bottom of the lake. It was a huge project, but the time was unusually short, the methods were very violent, and everything highlighted the greed of human nature.
"There may be more than a few hundred people," Feng Qiyun said: "It's better to rest early, and leave enough physical strength to wait until tomorrow night, and there are still many things waiting for us." ”
"I have a feeling," Cha Wenbin's face was more solemn, "I burned the plum blossom incense once just now, and the result was not very good, this lake may open a myth, maybe a hell." ”