Can you live forever

Chapter 7 The stars move, the road turns left

"This strawberry smoothie tastes really good."

After Zhang Zhixiang boiled the bag of strawberries given by the emperor into jam, he asked the kitchen to deliver a strawberry smoothie to everyone in the house, and he himself took a bowl and gave it to the old heavenly master himself.

"The emperor's reward contained a total of five catties of strawberries. I boiled them once and filled two cans. I used one can today, and the remaining one is Dudu's personal collection."

"Next time I want to eat strawberries, I'm afraid I can only ask the Siyuan Bureau for seeds."

"Out-of-season fruits and vegetables always taste bad."

"The strawberries that are ripe in July and August may be sweeter, and they taste good when eaten directly."

The old heavenly master looked at the way his granddaughter was holding the earthen pot tightly, and knew that the little girl must be in love with the taste, so he pampered the little girl's head and said, "Since Dudu likes to eat, you can eat it this time." Jing will ask His Majesty for some seeds."

"Specially open up a few acres of land and plant strawberries."

"Every year there is food in the house, and some can be sent to the village."

Zhangjia Village is at the foot of Longhu Mountain. It is not only some offshoots of the Zhang family of Tianshi Mansion since ancient times, but also the descendants of the resident Taoist priests in the past. There are also some villagers who migrated here one after another. There are more than [-] households, which can be regarded as a big village. .

Although Zhang Xiucai's family is also surnamed Zhang, they are not of the same clan as Tianshi Mansion.

The ancestor of Zhang Xiucai's family was the Zhang family of Wu County. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the world was chopped up like a chopping board. This branch of them migrated here at that time. Hundreds of years have passed, and they have lost contact with the clan. They are considered unique. Small household.

There are not many "outsiders" like them.

There are about a hundred households, and it is considered to be rich. If someone like Zhang Zhixiang was born with visions, if it wasn't for the Tianshi Mansion, he would definitely be in big trouble.

This origin is not only reflected in major events, but also in life. It is also common to send things to each other on the mountain and down the mountain during the New Year and festivals.

Life, pay attention to a human touch Well.

"Shuntian Mansion is far away. This time I go to Beijing, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the planting when I come back. If I can't eat strawberries in summer, Dudu is not allowed to cry." Zhang Zhixiang said with a smile.

The little girl said dissatisfied: "Who is crying?"

"You~~"

Zhang Zhixiang pinched her cute little nose, she snorted a few times delicately, expressing protest, the old Tianshi looked at their childhood sweethearts, and stroked his beard with a smile.

Asked: "Have you asked your parents about going to Beijing?"

Zhang Zhixiang replied: "Well, my father told me to go after spring. By the way, brother, my father told me about the relationship between Guibiao Ceying and Taiji today, but the yin-yang fish in the Taiji diagram was not drawn."

"It is said that it is related to Hetu Luoshu, is that true?"

The old heavenly master smiled, praised Zhang Xiucai a few words, and then said: "I told you yesterday that if you don't talk about the great beauty of the world, if you don't talk about the clear laws of the four seasons, and if you don't talk about the principles of everything, that's all." in this way."

"Before cultivating the Tao, one must first learn the Tao."

"We need to know where the Tao of our cultivation comes from, what is Yin and Yang, what are the five elements, and what are the heavenly stems and earthly branches. After knowing these, we can understand that Taoism is not something mysterious and mysterious. There are traces to follow."

"Talking this to you out of thin air, the cognition may not be deep enough."

"Just right."

"Tonight is cloudless, suitable for stargazing."

……

Imperial Book Pavilion, the top of the pavilion.

The seven-storey building is dedicated to the collection of royal documents and scriptures received by the Tianshi Mansion in the past dynasties. There is a tea room on the fifth floor for the Tianshi to drink tea and read books.

And on the roof of the pavilion above the seventh floor, there is a two-meter-square stargazing platform, which can be climbed by hanging ladders outside the window.

The old master is over [-] years old, but his skills are exceptionally vigorous. He jumped out of the window holding Zhang Zhixiang in one hand, turning around like a swimming dragon, climbing up with one hand, almost "floating" up.

The moment he landed, Zhang Zhixiang was still a little absent-minded.

This skill is too powerful...

"Hehe, the old man has never practiced martial arts, but after reaching the cultivation base, he is naturally as light as a swallow. There should be no two people who are faster than the old man in the Jianghu. If it is Feng Xu Yukong, it is not impossible."

Zhang Zhixiang was brought to Versailles, but he discovered the key point even more.

"Brother can really fly?"

"Don't dare to speak out, just control your spirit."

After saying that, he satisfied the little junior brother's curiosity, jumped up, stepped several tens of feet in the air, and then kicked back into the sky, Zhang Zhixiang was extremely shocked and fascinated by his fairy-like posture.

The old master patted him on the head and said: "Okay, you can do it in the future, these are just small tricks, not worth worrying about."

"Let's look at the avenue."

The old celestial master pointed to the starry sky. This is not the first time Zhang Zhixiang has seen the night sky of this time and space, but no matter how many times, the stars all over the sky are so shocking. In modern society, even in the countryside, there are not many stars. There are only a few in it...

If the avenue is hidden in the starry sky.

So it is not unreasonable for modern society to lose the avenue, people can no longer get close to the starry sky.

"Have you found the Big Dipper?"

"Ah."

"Where's Polaris? Can you find it?"

"that?"

Zhang Zhixiang searched along the connecting line between Tianxuan and Tianshu, and found Polaris easily. Just one day after the winter solstice, the handle of the bucket pointed to the north.

How is this north determined?

We stand facing north, with the bucket handle pointing in front of me, that is north, and the bucket handle pointing behind me, naturally it is south.

Therefore.

When the ancients drew a star map, they would go up to south and down to north, because when standing facing north, you need to look up to see the south, so the south is up and the north is down.

The east, west, north and south in the star map is a matter of perspective.

After all, the world is three-dimensional.

Zhang Zhixiang has a lot of modern astronomical knowledge in his head, but the old celestial master doesn't know what he is thinking, so he doesn't pay attention to it, and there is no need to pay attention to it. Those are just tools, tools used to prove that's all.

"Just after the winter solstice, you can use the current Big Dipper to determine the positions of the vernal equinox, summer solstice, and autumnal equinox."

"Plus Polaris."

"What did you discover about the connection between these four Beidou diagrams and the North Star?"

Zhang Zhixiang raised his hand and made a gesture, then he was stunned, and he murmured: "The swastika reversed?"

The Buddhist swastika is right-handed, and this pattern is left-handed. Coincidentally, there is another famous existence whose flag is this symbol...

"Oh? It is indeed a reversed swastika. The Buddhist school also has its origin, but the origin is not in the sky, but in the earth."

"Don't worry about Buddhist affairs."

"The connecting pattern between the four seasons positions of the Big Dipper and Polaris in the sky is in a left-handed posture, can you see it? If you watch the astrology all night tonight, you will find that the entire sky and all the stars are orbiting the Polaris left-handed." .”

"The sky, the earth, people, everything is left-handed."

"It's because...the avenue turns left."

Zhang Zhixiang was surprised and said, "People are also turning to the left?"

The old heavenly master smiled and said: "There is a saying in the "Internal Classics": Those who go up go to the right, and those who go down go to the left. The flow of Qi in our body is all rising left and falling right, so naturally it is left-handed."

Zhang Zhixiang's understanding of Qi mechanism is limited.

But he suddenly thought of some little knowledge he had read in his previous life. The amino acids in the human body seem to be left-handed. The double helix structure of DNA seems to be the most stable right-handed helix. Isn’t a right-handed helix a left-handed one...

Really, just a coincidence?

(End of this chapter)