What does the picture of the river and the book of Luo symbolize?
He Tu and Luo Shu come from "Yi Zhuan·Xici": "The river produces pictures, Luo produces books, and the sages follow them." The literal meaning of this sentence is: a picture emerges from the Yellow River Picture, a book came out of Luoshui, and the saints followed it.
According to legend, Fuxi, who ranked first among the "Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors", once saw a dragon and horse carrying a picture out of the river, which was called a river picture; At the end of the ninth year, Yu the Great used it to make nine domains, which he called Luoshu. Later, people used "He Chu Tu" and "Luo Chu Shu" to express the auspiciousness of the peaceful era.
In Mengjin County, Henan Province, there is the Dragon and Horse Negative Picture Temple. It was built in the fourth year of Yonghe, Emperor Mu of the Jin Dynasty. It was built to commemorate Fuxi's surrender of the dragon and horse, draw the Eight Diagrams based on the river map, and create Chinese civilization. There is a main hall built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. There are 24 stone steles inlaid on the east and west gables of the interior. There are steles written by Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi, Shao Yong, Zhang Zai, Zhou Dunyi and Zhang Han in the Song Dynasty, and Wang Duo in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the left side of the original mountain gate, there is a giant monument in regular script with "the place where the dragon and horse bear the picture". In 1993, based on the original Fuxi Hall, the Shanmen, Bell and Drum Tower, Bagua Flower Bed, East and West Thirty-Six Palaces, Wenwang Hall, Hetu Altar, Luoshu Altar, etc. were restored. In the ruins of Youli City in the north of Tangyin City, there are two steles, one is a portrait of He Chutu and the other is a portrait of Luo Chushu.
"Hetu Luoshu" is the earliest historical document of the Chinese nation according to legend, and is the highest achievement of the spiritual thinking of our ancestors. Of course, from the materialist point of view of modern science, the legend about Hetuluoshu can only be a myth. There is a view in contemporary historians that the Bagua map painted by Fuxi was when he was in Luorui, where the Yiluo River in today's Gongyi City flows into the Yellow River - the Holy Land, where he saw the clear Luo River flow into the chaotic and turbulent waters. In the Yellow River, due to the impact force, a vortex was formed at the mouth of the river. The half vortex close to the Yellow River has a little clear water from the Luo River, and the half vortex close to the Luo River has a little muddy water from the Yellow River. Fuxi drew accordingly. , the Bagua diagram, which has a profound influence on Chinese civilization, was produced. The place name Shendi probably got its name because Fuxi drew the Eight Diagrams here. And "Luo published books" is actually because the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties was on the bank of the Luo River, with a history of more than 1,000 years. Ban Gu's "Hanshu", Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jiezi", Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms", Zhang Hua's "Natural History", Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" and other famous historical works, as well as Laozi's Taoism and Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi theories were all born in Luoyang, so "Luo published books" became a natural Something happened.