Three are one, you must know several important concepts contained in Tai Chi
The word Tai Chi, in the eyes of Yi scholars in the Han Dynasty, means vitality. That is the original Qi of the universe. There is a saying in Chinese Taoism that "one Qi transforms the Three Pure Ones", and the Three Pure Ones are transformed into the three main gods of Taoism, namely Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun and Taiqing Daode Tianzun. This is the origin of the lineage of Taoist immortals.
Then the Tai Chi Yiqi before deification can represent the principles of all things in the universe. Tai Chi means infinite. Tai means greater than the big, and extreme means endless. Therefore, it was named "Tai Chi" by ancient scholars. "Book of Changes. Xici Zhuan" says: "Therefore, the Yi has Tai Chi, which gives rise to two rituals, two rituals give rise to four images, four images give rise to the Eight Diagrams, the Eight Diagrams determine good and bad, and good and bad bring great causes." This passage is from a philosophical and metaphysical perspective. Describing the process of the creation of the universe, Tai Chi theory was later evolved by Yili researchers into a worldview that looks at the survival and development of all things in the world.
Tai Chi not only evolved the immortal genealogy of "one Qi transforming the three pure beings", but also appeared at the beginning as a macro concept that summarized the three talents of "heaven, earth and man". The general principle of heaven and earth is Tai Chi, which means Tai Chi is too big and has no outside, its small ones have no inside, its dispersion becomes Qi, and its gathering forms shape. Everything has Tai Chi, and everyone has Tai Chi. It has this shape but not this behavior. As long as it has this principle, it is Tai Chi. Therefore, all the sages said: Tai Chi is the Tao, the Qi, and the principle.
Tai Chi’s two rituals, four elephants, five elements, and eight trigrams belong to heaven, earth, and people. That is to say, heaven, earth, and people all have the principles of two rituals, four elephants, five elements, and eight trigrams.
The two instruments are Yin and Yang.
The four elephants are green dragon, white tiger, red bird and black basalt.
The five elements are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Bagua, Qiankunkanli shakes Xungendui.
The above are all the most primitive concepts of Liangyi, Fourxiang and Five Elements and Bagua. Later, under the further evolution of Yi scholars, they became a general outline covering the phenomena and development laws of all things.
In "The Book of Changes. Shuo Gua Zhuan" it is said: "The way that establishes heaven is called Yin and Yang, the way that establishes earth is called softness and hardness, and the way that establishes people is called benevolence and righteousness. ”
The two rituals, four images, and five elements and eight trigrams sum up all things in the world, just like a Tai Chi circle. Everything can be divided into two rituals, distinguish the four images, determine the five elements, and enter the eight trigrams.
Tai Chi contains the two qi of yin and yang, which form images in the sky, take shape on the earth, and achieve things and changes in people. Therefore, heaven can be divided into yin and yang or day and night in the two rites, spring, summer, autumn and winter or Shaoyin, Shaoyang, old yin and old yang in the four images. It can be divided into the sun, moon, stars, metal, wood, water and fire, or wind, rain, thunder and lightning, yin, clear and dim.
The earth can be divided into softness and hardness, movement and stillness, and rivers and lakes in the two instruments. It can be divided into water, fire, earth, and stone or southeast and northwest in the four images. It can be divided into metal, wood, water, fire, earth, stone, and mountains in the Bagua.
What is particularly worth learning is the concept of gossip. Everything has a Tai Chi, and everything has a Tai Chi. Therefore, Tai Chi has all the Eight Diagrams, and under the Eight Diagrams, there are eight mother Tai Chi. Therefore, when Tai Chi stands, Bagua arises, eight after eight, things are endless, and the operation of the five elements is also endless.
In the Bagua cosmology, Qian represents heaven, Kun represents earth, earthquake represents thunder, Xun represents wind, Kan represents water, Li represents the sun, Gen represents the mountain, and Dui represents the river.
In terms of human affairs, godfather, Kun mother, Zhen eldest son, Xun eldest daughter, Li Zhong daughter, Kan Zhong man, Gen young boy and Dui young girl. There are countless parents above Qianfu, Kunmu, and the descendants below have not cut off their inheritance. There is no person without parents.
Taking an individual person as an example, Qian is the head, Kun is the abdomen, Zhen is the foot, Xun is the stock, Kan is the ear, Li is the eye, Gen is the hand, and Dui is the mouth. When Tai Chi is established with Qian as the head, it can be divided into eight branches.
In the process of Tai Chi, the feet step on the five elements and the hands hold the Bagua: push south, push north, push east, push west, pick northwest, push southwest, elbow northeast, lean southeast. (There are also different classification methods based on the innate Bagua.)
In summary, Bagua is an early philosophical thought in ancient my country. It uses a set of abstract symbols of Yin and Yang to explain various natural phenomena and People, things, and all things are used to deduce the relationship and development of various things in time and space, just like Yin-Yang and the Five Elements. In addition to its use in Feng Shui and divination, its profound philosophical thoughts have influenced all aspects of Chinese medicine, martial arts, music, natural and social phenomena.
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