What do you mean, "Yao eyebrows are colorful, eyes are slippery and eyes are heavy, and jade ears are leaking three times"?

From the second item of "Natural History", I chose Lun Heng written by Wang Chong, a thinker in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Original text:

It is said that Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, a martial artist, joined the mouth, Yao's eyebrows were colorful, his eyes were slippery and his pupils were heavy, her eyes were leaking three times, Tang's arms and elbows were bent again, Si 'ru, Wang Yang, back-rolling, Hao Tao's mouth, and Confucius turned against feathers. The twelve saints are all emperors' positions, or help the Lord to worry about the world. What the world has heard and what Confucianism has said is more credible in the classics.

Translation:

Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor's face is like a dragon. Zhuan Xu has something similar to a horn on his head. His teeth are connected together. Yao's eyebrows have eight colors. Shun has two overlapping pupils in each eye. Yu has three holes in each ear. Shang Tang has two elbows in each arm and four breasts. His eyes are so high that he can see the sun overhead. His back is hunched, his mouth is like a horse's mouth. Confucius's head is sunken like an inverted roof.

Most of these twelve saints are on the throne of the emperor, either assisting the monarch or worrying about the country and the people. This is what the world has heard and witnessed, and Confucian scholars have also said it, and it is famous in the classics, so it is more remarkable and credible.

Extended data

"Bonology" states that human bones (bones, shapes) and appearance can reflect human life and nature, so it is named "Bonology".

Wang Chong believes that the life and essence of qi can be reflected from human bones, shapes, looks, sounds and qi. He called the phenomena that life and nature can be observed from a person's body "bononology" and "bononology".

That both life and sex have bone methods. As long as the bones are similar, people's sex and life will be similar. Bones are different, wealth, poverty, longevity and character are different. He also believes that as long as a person knows physiognomy and osteopathy, he can know his life experience by observing physiognomy.

Lun Heng is Wang Chong's masterpiece and an immortal atheistic work in China's history. Written in the third year of Emperor Yuanhe of the Han and Yuan Dynasties (86 years). There are 85 articles (among them, "incur" has only one title, and there are actually 84 articles. )

Lun Heng was written by Wang Chong with great concentration for 30 years, and is called a "fantastic book". Cai Yong came to Zhejiang in A.D. 189. When he saw the book Lun Heng, he returned it in secret. Cai Yong's friends found that after he came back from Zhejiang, he made great progress in his studies. They speculated that he might have got a wonderful book and went to look for it. Sure enough, he found the book Lun Heng in the hidden place between the accounts, then grabbed a few volumes and left. Cai Yong quickly exhorted: "This book can only be read by you and me, and must not be spread abroad.". Friends also call it "a wonderful book" after reading it.

The book Lun Heng opposes this view from the viewpoint of cosmology, and puts forward that everything in the world (including people) is composed of qi, which is a unified material element. Qi includes harmony, which can be divided into tangible and intangible. The life of people and things is the condensation of vitality, and when they die, they regain their vitality. This is a natural process.

From the material element of qi, Lun Heng points out that "heaven is like jade" and the growth of everything is "natural". Everything in heaven and earth is formed by the same qi that fills the universe, and it is formed in the process of movement. Therefore, "there is something outside, and it is natural inside." The difference between man and everything in the world lies in "knowing hunger and knowing cold" and "eating grain when you see it, taking it and eating it; When you see silk hemp, you can dress it, take it and dress it. " Therefore, man and grain were not intentionally created by God, but "naturalized" Qi.

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