In ancient China, there was a saying of nine continents. Excuse me, according to Jiuzhou, what is Jiuzhou? I want China to be the name of Jiuzhou, which is just a continent.
1, China (the whole circle of Chinese civilization, including Siberia)
2. Rongzhou (most parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania)
3. Yangzhou (Indian subcontinent)
4. Yizhou (Arab Islamic civilization in Central Asia)
5. Hezhou (Africa)
6. Zhuzhou (Europe)
7. Xuanzhou (North America)
8. Yingzhou (Central and South America)
9. Bozhou (Antarctic)
At that time, people's understanding of the world was still very narrow, and they didn't realize that the so-called world was only a part of the earth. However, if we carefully look at the documents left over from history, we will be very surprised to find that at the end of the Warring States period, some scholars pointed out that there were also Central Kyushu and Great Kyushu, and China's "world" was just one of them.
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According to this record, it is impossible to determine whether China really only occupies one eightieth of the whole earth's surface, but we can know that ancient China people have long recognized that China only occupies a part of the whole earth. And this big "Kyushu" is really divided according to the equatorial circle of the whole earth. As the sages thought:
1, Yin-Yang news law means that the weather disappears underground; The gas released by the earth is "breathing";
2. Since the separation of heaven (gas) and earth (entity), the transformation, alternation, passage and operation of wood, fire, earth, gold and water have their own main load periods directly corresponding to Kyushu;
3. The operation law of the weather is consistent with the law of five movements and six qi recognized by ancient people in China;
4, first fulfilled in small things, and then reasoning in big things, so boundless;
5. According to what has been inferred for quite a long time, including before the emergence of heaven and earth, in other words, "Kyushu" is divided and named on the basis of deducing its root-"Universal Life and Earth".