The origin of the prosperity of life and the decline of death.
The abstract of Qin bamboo slips in Fangmatan, Tianshui mentions that the seventh category of Japanese books is five-element books, and the original text is as follows:
Wood makes the sea, but bones don't. B 63
Fire begets yin, and people at noon are jealous. B 229
Jin Shengsi, there is no ugliness. B 230
The water is heavy and the child is long. B 23 1
This is an important material about the relationship between five elements and earthly branches. Unfortunately, due to the unclear photos and incorrect interpretation, it failed to attract the attention of researchers. Now compare this article with the relationship between the five elements and the earth branch contained in Huai Nan Zi Tian Zi Xun:
Wood was born in Shanghai, stronger than Mao, and died before, and all three are wood.
Fire is born in yin, stronger than noon, and dies in deficiency, all of which are fire.
Born in the afternoon, stronger than the sky, died in the shade, all three were born in the ground.
Jin was born in the third place, in the unitary place and died in the ugly place. All three are gold.
Water is stronger than Shen, and it is stronger than Zi. When you die in Chen, all three Chen are water.
The arrangement of earthly branches in Rishu, a bamboo slip of A Qin in Fangmatan, is the same as that in Huainanzi, except for the word "ground". The big difference is that the birth, birth and death of Qin bamboo slips on Fangmatan are all done in Huainanzi. The word "mu" is a misinterpretation or an excuse for the word "Zhuang". The word "zhe" is a misinterpretation or an excuse for the word "Lao". In this way, according to the text of Huainan Xun, we can interpret the Japanese book Wuxing Shu on the Qin bamboo slips of Fangmatan as:
Wood is born in the sea, strong and old.
Fire gives birth to yin, and it is strong in the afternoon.
Jin Shengsi is strong and unitary, old and ugly.
Shuishengshen, Zhuangzi, Lao Chen.
Japan's Book of Releasing Horses clearly divides into three stages: birth, prosperity and the third stage, in which the first stage is the sea, yin, thinking and spirit, the middle stage is Mao, Wu, you and Zi, and the last stage is Wei, Chou and Chen. This is completely consistent with the three-in-one game used by future generations of the Five Elements. This proves that a complete three-in-one game did exist in the pre-Qin era.
2. Huai Nan Zi: This book was written in the late reign of Emperor Jing (BC 143) and presented to the court in the second year of Jianyuan (BC 14 1 year) at the beginning of Liu Che's accession to the throne. The relationship between "life, strength and death" of the five elements in Huai Nan Zi Tian Zi Xun is a continuation of the pre-Qin period.
It was not until Justice of the Five Elements in the Sui Dynasty that a comprehensive description of the relationship between the five elements and the earthly branches was given, which was the first appearance of the theory of parasitic zodiac of the five elements.
3. Five elements of justice: five volumes in total. Sui wrote it. According to legend, Xiao Ji was born in the imperial clan of Qi Liang, and his grandfather was Xiao Yi, the younger brother of Xuanwu King.
The book Justice of Five Elements is of great value in the history of astrology in China, because it inherits the achievements of astrology in the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years. According to expert research, the accumulation of materials and the compilation of the first draft of Five Elements of Justice probably began in 584 ~ 594.
Quoted from Five Elements of Justice. On life and death:
The five elements have different styles, and life and death are different. There are also December and 12 Chen, and they are all gone.
Wood, suffer indignities in Shen, conceive in You, raise in Xu, be born in Hai, bathe in Zi, be crowned with ugliness, be an official in Yin, Wang, decline in Chen, fall ill in Si, die in noon and be buried in Wei.
Fire, angry at the sea, pregnant with children, raised in ugliness, born in yin, bathed in hair, crowned in Chen, served as an official in Sri Lanka, declined in Wu, fell ill in Shen, died in You and was buried in Xu.
Gold, suffering from anger in yin, pregnant with hair, raised in Chen, born in Sri Lanka, bathed in noon, crowned in Wei, served as an official in Shen, had a relationship with Wang Yuyou, declined in Xu, fell ill in Hai, died in Zi and was buried in ugliness.
Water, suffering from anger, pregnant in the afternoon, nourished in the afternoon, born in Shen, bathed in unitary, crowned in Xu, served in the sea, declined and ugly, fell ill in Yin, died of Mao, and was buried in Chen.
Earth, suffer indignities in the sea, conceive in the child, raise in ugliness, send in the shade, be born in Mao, bathe in Chen, be crowned in Sri Lanka, reign in noon, be ill in Shen, die in You and be buried in Xu.
Xu is the tomb of fire, fire is its mother, mother and son bury ugliness, ugliness is the tomb of gold, and gold is its son. Justice disagrees. If you want to return it, it's not a wooden tomb. Wood is a ghost. If you dare not enter, you will be buried in Chen. Chen is the tomb of water, and water is his wife. Yu Yi is a combination. Yesterday, Shun buried Cangwu, but the second concubine did not follow, so we know that it is not ancient to be buried together. However, Wu Ziyun said, "I haven't changed since the Duke of Zhou came. As the poem says, the valley is a different room, and death is the same point. The meaning of Gai Yi Dun, the kinship of flesh and blood, and the common grave of water and soil are also taken. " Also thanks to the interpretation of the four seasons.
Born in soil, born in water, is stronger than ugliness, and finally becomes the tomb of soil and water, so Chen doesn't cry on the day, and Chen mourns his death on the day. Sorry, but I don't want to move to Japan. Gao Tang said the cover was superficial. It was born of the king's life, not a family.
"Five Elements Book" says: "Although the soil has sent the king to Huoxiang, he was born in Sri Lanka and buried in Chen. The soil is divided into four seasons, each with its own place of life and death.
Chen Tu, humiliated, conceived in Xu, raised in Hai, born in Zi, bathed in ugliness, crowned in Yin, served in Mao, died of illness in Si, and died in Wei at noon.
I was born ugly, raised in yin, born in wool, bathed in Chen, crowned in Si, served as an official in the afternoon, died in Shen, died in You and was buried in Xu.
I was born at noon, bathed in the morning, crowned in Shen, served in You, died in Hai, died in Zi and was buried in Ugliness.
Ugly soil, angry at noon, pregnant before, born in Shen, born in You, bathed in Xu, crowned in Hai, official in Zi, ugly in Wang, sick in Yin, died of Mao, and buried in Chen. "
"Xiao Jing Tian Zhu" says: "Five elements, soil benefits the world."
"Turtle Classic" said: "Soil and wood are ancient soil, fire is uncultivated soil, gold is soil and water is ugly soil." Another cloud says: "A, B, B, B, D, B, B, D, B, B, D, B, B, D, B, B, D, B, D, B, D, B, B, B, B, B.
Every king of five elements has 72 days. People who live in the four seasons, in the first 18 season and the 72nd season, have four orientations, which are different in life and death, and are used for divination.
If we say the king's position, the place of life and death, we all take June of the last month of summer as the time of the king of the earth. The Book of Rites says: "Middle-earth is after the end of summer." This half-year-old, in the fourth year of secondary school, is a heaven society, a land god, a ghost, but not, Kun is also uncertain, and the master is in the soil, so the cloud says, "If the soil is not virtuous, it will eventually be ugly."
Yi said, "Friends of the southwest, friends of the northeast." This shows that the earth king is determined to be absent, and the tomb is determined to be in Chen.
The five elements are born in the middle of parents' official positions, and their prosperity can give birth to righteousness. Gold is born in fire, and strong soil in fire can produce gold. Gold will not change its shape unless it is fired, so gold is born in fire. He also said that "ghosts are born in gold", and the golden father Wu Ji was sent to cure Bing Ding. Father can't raise him alone, but he needs his mother. South gold has its own fire, gold turns into fire, gold is aquatic, and Wuji turns into water, so gold is not afraid of fire and contains water vapor, so it is also the stepmother of gold.
Those who suffer indignities within one month after the burial of the Five Elements will be resurrected with their dead, and their spirit will last forever.
The above "five elements of justice. Quotations from On Life and Death.
According to "five elements of justice". On life and death, I am outraged and will do it today; Life, today is longevity; King, now king; Bury, this is the grave.
There is a very important sentence in the Five Elements of Justice, which is the last sentence in the Land of Life and Death: "Those who suffer indignities within a month after burial will be brought back to life with the deceased, and their spirits will never stop." "Coming back from the dead", that is, the reincarnation of life and death, there was no reincarnation theory between Yin and Yang school and Taoism in the pre-Qin period, so the parasitic zodiac in Five Elements of Justice was obviously influenced by Buddhism. As we know, Buddhism in China began with Emperor Han Ming, reached its peak in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and continued to this day in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The justice of the five elements was brewed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is impossible not to be influenced by Buddhism. In addition, Xiao Jizu's father's younger brother is Liang Wudi who has made the greatest contribution to Buddhism in history.
Twelve reasons of Buddhism: "To walk without reason, to know reason, to be famous, to enter the name six times, to touch reason, to be touched by reason, to be loved by reason, to take reason, to live and die of old age." Ignorance, action and knowledge are equivalent to the stage of anger, name and color are equivalent to the fetus, six items are equivalent to raising, touching is equivalent to life, and being loved is equivalent to bathing, wearing a crown, approaching an official, approaching an emperor, dying in old age, and being buried after death.
The narrative habits of justice in the Five Elements are different from today's: the narrative of justice in the Five Elements begins with suffering from anger, pregnancy and upbringing, and ends with illness, death and burial. This is more in line with the course of life. Today, the description of the parasitic zodiac of the five elements begins with longevity, bathing, crown belt, and finally extinction, embryo and nourishment.
In the five elements, the relationship between the four elephants, wood, fire, gold, water and earth is completely formed, but for China, it seems to originate from yin, and the combination of old and sick is still in application, which is still unsatisfactory in theory.
At that time, there were still other opinions on this, such as "Gao Sheng was born in the soil, sheng Yu Shui, stronger than ugliness, and eventually became the tomb of soil and water", and Xiao Ji thought that "Gao Tang said that architecture was superficial".
Xiao Ji also quoted the Five Elements Book as saying: "Although the soil sent the king with Huoxiang, he was born in Sri Lanka and buried in Chen, but the soil is divided into four seasons, each with its own place of life and death. The list is as follows:
This four seasons burial table has never been circulated since then. Because getting angry is two branches of the earth, the theory is not perfect.