Enlightenment of traditional culture "Book of Changes" (12) - Luo Shu

Awakening to the traditional culture "Zhouyi" (12) - Luoshu

1. Overview of Luoshu

Luoshu is a product of ancient civilization. A pattern about the changing context of space between heaven and earth. It is a schema that uses black dots and white dots as basic elements, forms several different combinations in a certain way, and is arranged into a matrix as a whole. Numbers 1-9 in Luoshu are the numbers of changes in the heaven and earth. All things have form when they have energy, form means quality, quality means number, and number means image. The five elements of "qi, shape, quality, number, and image" are used in Hetu Luoshu. Such schemas are used to simulate expressions, and they are cleverly combined and integrated to construct a universe where time and space are unified and all things are generated and evolved.

The meaning of "Luoshu" is actually "context diagram". Luo Shu, its content expression is actually spatial, including the entire horizontal space, two-dimensional space, and the east, west, north, and south directions. The sum of the three numbers on the vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines in Luo Shu is equal to 15. In the vast world, everything is divided into categories according to the Bagua and Five Elements. How to organize it into an orderly operating whole is the function of Luo Shu.

Hetu Luoshu is a system of identifying time, direction and seasons arranged by people in ancient times according to the stars. In the legend, "Hetu Luoshu" comes from the Yellow River and Luoshui. In fact, the "river" in "Hetu Luoshu" does not refer to the Yellow River, but the Milky Way.

2. Looking for traces of origins

Hetu Luoshu are two mysterious patterns handed down from ancient times. They originated from the stars in the sky and contain profound principles of the universe and astrology. They are known as It is the "Cosmic Rubik's Cube" and has always been considered the source of Chinese civilization. The "river" in the "River Map" actually refers to the galaxy. The original prototype of the River Diagram was a white rotating dragon, depicting the Milky Way as a white dragon, revolving around the midpoint, which is the North Star. This picture later evolved into two dragons, one black and one white, and gradually became the familiar Tai Chi Yin and Yang diagram today. Luoshu is a number that expresses the changing context of heaven and earth. The meaning of "Luoshu" is actually "vein diagram", which is a pattern that expresses the changes in the space of heaven and earth. It is generally believed that the Hetu is the body, and the Luoshu is the function; the Hetu is about constant, and Luoshu is about change; when the Hetu overlaps, the Luoshu is divided; the square and the circle hide each other, and the yin and yang embrace each other and serve each other. Tai Chi, Bagua, Zhouyi, Liujia, Nine Stars, Feng Shui, etc. can all be traced back to this point. The Hetuluo Book is a product of ancient civilization. From an empirical point of view, it is difficult to find a strict scientific basis to determine that the Hetuluo Book was produced in a specific location. The origin of Hetu Luoshu is an eternal mystery in the history of Chinese civilization. "Hetu Luoshu" is included in the existing documents in "Shangshu", followed by "Yi Zhuan" and various scholars. The most famous sources of Hetu and Luoshu come from the sentence "When the river comes out of the picture, Luo comes out of the book, the sage follows it." in "Yi Zhuan·Xici". Based on this, it is believed that the Bagua is deduced from these two pictures. Come. The first person to name these two pictures was Liu Mu, a Yi scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty. He studied the "Long Tu Yi" handed down by Chen Tuan and wrote the "Yi Shu Gou Yin Tu". As a result, He Tu Luo Shu became known to the world. Know. At that time, there was a debate on whether to use "Picture Ten Book Nine" or "Picture Nine Book Ten", and finally settled on Picture Ten Book Nine, which continues to this day.

3. Number rules

Luoshu, the Nine Palaces Diagram. A detailed explanation of the arrangement of numbers in the Nine Palaces Chart may reveal some truth. First of all, the sum of the numbers in the Nine Palaces Chart is equal to fifteen, that is, the sum of the horizontal and vertical directions is equal to fifteen. 4 9 2=15; 3 5 7=15; 8 1 6=15; 4 3 8=15; 9 5 1=15; 2 7 6=15; 4 5 6=15; 2 5 8=15.

In addition, let’s take 438 in the left column and 276 in the right column as examples. When adding numbers in descending order to two digits, the sum of the numbers in the left and right columns is still equal. That is 43 38 84=27 76 62. The gradient from bottom to top still holds. 83 34 48=67 72 26. It is still the same even if it is reduced to three digits, that is: 438 384 843 = 276 762 627. Counting from bottom to top still holds, that is: 834 348 483 = 672 726 267. Continue to change gradually to four digits, five digits, six digits, one hundred digits, one thousand digits and still hold true.

The magic is not here yet. What is even more amazing is that whether it is one digit, two digits, or three digits, the sum of the squares can still be equal to the left and right. The sum of squares of three-digit and four-digit numbers can still be established. In other words, it can be established whether it is a hundred or a thousand places. Furthermore, if you calculate the Nine Palaces chart using the determinant method, you can get a weekly number of 360. Such a number row actually has incredible magic power. It was such an arrangement of nine-square numbers that solved the strange mathematical problem raised by American mathematicians, the problem of strictly equal sums of squares. At that time, it was a strange mathematical problem that no one could solve, and even computers were incapable of solving it. As a result, it was overcome by Professor Peng Shaoding of Mathematics who studied Luo Shu.

4. Hetu and Luoshu

It is generally believed that Hetu is the body and Luoshu is the function; Hetu is about constant, Luoshu is about change; when Hetu overlaps, Luoshu is about emphasis. divided; the square and the circle hide each other, yin and yang embrace each other, serve each other, and are inseparable. Liu Xin of the Han Dynasty believed: "The Hetu and Luoshu show the longitude and latitude." Zhu Xi and Cai Yuanding of the Southern Song Dynasty said: "The Hetu is about completeness, so it is the best ten; the Luo Shu is about changes, so it is more than nine." "The Hetu is based on the five numbers of life. Five percent of the numbers are in the same square, and the cover is uncovered to show people their normal state. Luoshu uses five odd numbers to unify the four even numbers and each has its own place. The number is also used." He also believes that the river image is like a round sky, and its number is three, which is odd; Luo Shu is like a place, and its number is two, which is even. Cai Chen: "The Hetu style is round and square, and the sages use it to draw hexagrams; the Luo script is square and round, and the sages use it to describe categories." He also believes that the Hetu is mainly about images, and the Luo Shu is about numbers; the Hetu is about the numbers; Ou, Luo Shu is about Qi; He Tu is about Jing, and Luo Shu is about initiative. In the ten thousand years of the Qing Dynasty, Chun used the square and circle diagrams to discuss the relationship between Heluo and Luo. He believed: "The river diagram is square on the outside and round on the inside." Still, the square is hidden in the circle, and the circle is hidden in the square. There is yang in yin, and there is yin in yang. The number fifteen is in the middle, which is the number of fifteen in the Luo Shu. It is the image of the river wrapped in the Luo Shu. The picture points are all flat, without folds, and the same is true for Luo Shu. "The Luo Shu is round on the outside and square on the inside. The round ones are black and white and have forty numbers. The round cloth is wrapped around the river picture." The pictures have the style of Luoshu, and Luoshu actually has the wonderful use of river pictures, because the odd and even squares and circles of the book are alternately expressed as pictures. "Hang Xinzhai in modern times believed: "The river pictures are for the purpose, and the Luoshu is for the purpose. There is body in it." "Some people use books to match Bagua, but they are too rigid and fail to understand it. In fact, Hetu is the body, and Luo Shu is the function. Hetu is the innate nature, and Luo Shu is the acquired nature." "So the map and the book express each other. Some people think that Hetu emphasizes "combination", which has the characteristics of odd and even matching, mutual embrace of yin and yang, and interdependence of generation; Luoshu emphasizes "division", which has the characteristics of odd and even separation and heterogeneous generation, and the two are divided into two parts. Unity embodies the unity of opposites and the dialectical relationship of ups and downs.

"Book of Changes·Xici": "Therefore, gods are born, and saints follow them; heaven and earth change, and saints follow them; heaven hangs down like an image to see good and bad luck, and saints like it; rivers come out of "Pictures", and Luo comes out. "Book", the sage follows it. "

The river map is actually arranged from 1 to 10. 5 and 10 form the middle palace. The odd numbers are yang and white, representing the number of days (birth numbers). Yin, which is black, represents the number of land (number). Luoshu is actually nine palaces, which are arranged from 1 to 9. The sum of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal numbers is 15. Hetu and Luoshu have different forms but the same essence. They both represent the unified system of calendar and divination, four directions, four seasons and eight festivals, Bagua, nine palaces and five figures.

"Shang Shu·Gu Ming": "Big Jade, Yi Jade, Celestial Sphere, and River Map are in the east sequence." Kong Chuan believed that the River Map is the Bagua. Some documents say that during the reign of Fu Xi, the dragon and horse carrying the picture came out of the river, and there is also a saying that Yao and Yu received the picture. "Bamboo Book Chronicles" Xuanyuan "In the autumn of the fiftieth year, in the seventh month, the phoenix bird arrived, and the emperor offered sacrifices to Luoshui." Shen Yue's note: "The dragon picture comes out of the river, the turtle book comes out of Luo..." After the wind, the picture was received The theory is widely spread. Some people think that the dragon and horse are the dragons of the Eastern Qisu and the four heavenly horses, which is consistent with the "horse body and dragon head" in the "Shan Hai Jing", and should be the dragon and horse found in the starry sky by people with ancient dragon and horse totems. From the perspective of Jiahu culture, it is true that divination existed more than 8,000 years ago, and it is possible to produce pictures and texts such as river diagrams. Later, it was said that it became "the auspicious sign of an emperor receiving orders".

The Han Dynasty believed that Luoshu was the nine categories of "Hong Fan". "When Yu Luo published a book in Tianxing, the divine turtle came out with the text behind it and listed it on his back. He counted it to nine. Yu then ranked it and established the nine categories of regular ways.

Ding Jungui

May 6, 2020