Yi Jing Monograph(4)The Overview ~ Yin, Yang
The Book of Changes is a step-by-step evolution. Is this the evolution of whole China? No. The evolution of each tribe is different. It seems that among the Yellow Rivers, Hebei and Henan tribes are different, like the tribes in Hebei, the tribes in the east may be different from the tribes in the west.
When the Tang Dynasty, the most famous are only two major cities, Chang'an and Luoyang. Very strange thing, Tang Taizong of the Tang Dynasty did not like to live in Luoyang, then Wu Zetian did not like to live in Luoyang. From the history, even Chiang Kai-shek did not like to stay in Luoyang, Mao Zedong is not willing to be in Luoyang. What is the reason? Is the location of Luoyang on the north side of the Yellow River? Or south of the Yellow River? The side that can take longer in the sun on a mountain is called the sunny side. The Yellow River is so wide. Should it be on the north side or the south side of the Yellow River? We want to discuss this thing. You have to know this river. You must have a little plain. There must be a mountain here. A river will be produced farther away. The general meaning of the Yang is that you are in the south of the mountain range and shine in the sun longer than this side of the mountain is called the Yang.
Why is China's entire geographical environment rich in the North than the Soviet Union, from the past to the present. Where is the problem? You can see that the entire highland of Xinjiang is bordering the Soviet Union, including the whole side of Kazakh. From the east of the three provinces of Mongolia to the Heilongjiang River, the whole is the mountain. The south side of Changbai Mountain is sunny, then the Soviet side is Yin, there is no vegetation. I do quite a lot of research, especially the problem of the yang and the yin, where the latitude is high, the mountain is not too high, as long as it is more than a thousand meters, the south side is sunny, the north side is the temperature, the temperature is the most Twenty degrees Celsius. There is a ski resort in Vancouver to Bannaby. The highest peak of the mountain is more than 1,100. As long as the solar calendar goes in June, the snow on the mountain is still not dissolved, and it will not be dissolved until the end of August. So the Vancouver area was in a drought at the end of August. Because the snow dissolves without water, you would not have water to drink. I asked their meteorologists that the temperature on the Vancouver side would be at most 20 degrees different from the temperature on the north side of the mountain. There is about eight degrees in Vancouver now, but the other side of the mountain is under zero degree now and snowing.
So since Luoyang is Yang, why are they not willing to be there? Luoyang is best known for its peony. Therefore, we have produced our Chinese Taoist thoughts, that is, the law, the earth, the heavens, the Tao, and the Tao fellow naturally produce a remarkable Chinese medicine. Because peony is very beautiful, but very beautiful people, she must be sick, so a very beautiful woman must eat peony skin if she is sick. The former woman is malnourished, so Taiwanese folk songs have a saying, marry a husband who has no money. The first is eat with no oil soup, to sleep without a foot bed. That is to say, when eating, the soup has no oil at all, sleeps without bed, sleeps on the floor, does not even have straw mats, and lays on the straw. Such a woman is very susceptible to illness.
I know that the former male owner had private food at home, because when I was a child, my great-grandfather had building materials, burned bricks, burned tiles, and many workers. At noon, dinner, about a dozen tables, needed a big meal bucket , all women had to do cooking, my great-grandfather wants to eat good things, he likes to eat leek fried bean curd, must be fried for him. As long as I have dried bean curd fried leek and dried bamboo shoots, I have enough to eat at that meal.
What everyone likes will not be the same. We have a record. If you like this food for a long time without any side effects, our record will be written. It has no effect at all, but there is a leader. Drinking it very comfortable and disease-free, and a food for leading very successful, wrote it in the BenCao, called the classic. Therefore, if you study the technique of ChiHung that was passed down in China, when you read the medicinal hebs, if you see the classics, you must not give this prescription to others. It will be ineffective because it was what the former leader like it very much. After eating it, he also led very well. Without poisoning death, he recorded it.
Therefore, when we study a philosophy and a method of this Yijing, we must look at it in the way of food, and use this thing to see the whole operation of this Yijing.
The yin and yang that the Book of Changes has ordered, when it comes to the theory of yin and yang, started in the Spring and Autumn Period and arrived in the Warring States Period. At that time, there was a yin and yang school thinking. When the Yijing was just beginning, it was to express this pattern, or When this matter is, because it is materialism, what kind of things do you use to represent yin and yang? In my opinion, the solid represents yang, and the hollow represents yin. So after this down, there is also a Gua, the hollow is the bamboo, the wooden stick above, the middle is the bamboo, then there is another wooden stick below, which is yin and yang. I use such a logic and regulations. After this getting down, if I get a branch of willow tree and a handful of reeds. Is there a yang? Is there a Yin? Of course, the willow tree is solid as yang, then the reed is hollow as a yin.
