Can you live forever

Chapter Eight
The Milky Way is left-handed, the revolution of the solar system is also left-handed, and the revolution and rotation of the planets are also left-handed...

Even the human body's qi mechanism and DNA are left-handed.

The magnetic field generated by the current is also left-handed.

This can no longer be explained by coincidence. When all the facts are in front of you, it is the truth, as the old master said - the left-handed way.

"Knowing that the great way is left-handed, when you look at the Taiji diagram, do you feel confused again?"

"The Taiji diagrams drawn by standard shadow measurements are right-handed, but the Taiji diagrams you usually see, the ones used by our Taoists, are all left-handed, right?"

"It's really a matter of perspective."

"Look, when we look at the starry sky, it's actually mirror-like."

"Tai Chi comes from the sky after all, so turn it over and the left-handed Tai Chi diagram is the true way of heaven."

"Although the Taiji diagram is drawn according to the shadow measurement of the standard, it is this kind of 'heavenly vertical image' that reflects the Dao. The ancestors' cognition of the world has risen from the superficial image to the Tao."

"It is very simple to reason about everything from Tao."

"Your father didn't tell you where the yin-yang fish in the Tai Chi picture came from. He wanted me to tell you about the relationship between practice, but in fact, if you want to preach, you still start from the level of the image."

"Your father talked about standard shadow measurement, so he should have told you that our planet actually revolves around the sun, right?"

Zhang Zhixiang nodded, thinking, everyone knows...

Soon, he was shocked that this knowledge was not the result of Zheng He's fleet surveying and mapping the world, but that his ancestors had known it thousands of years ago.

The old heavenly master asked: "Then, how do you think the sun and the moon move from our point of view?"

Zhang Zhixiang raised his hands in a daze. If one hand was the sun and the other was the moon, then their movement around me would be just like the yin and yang fish in the Taiji diagram, only the speed of the two...

"Brother, their speeds are different."

The old celestial master asked: "Are day and night equal in length? Is yin and yang distinct? How can the moon's rotation have nothing to do with the sun? What is the difference between one revolution and twelve revolutions?"

"If it's just a subdivision, you won't be able to learn yin and yang."

"Yin and Yang are inherently unified."

"Understand?"

Zhang Zhixiang was a little ignorant, mainly due to some conflicts with his previous cognition, but he could understand the meaning of his senior brother, although yin and yang are separated, they are actually one.

The movement of the moon is affected by the gravitational force of the sun, so the speed of the two rotations is actually the same after taking these effects into account...

"I think it's impossible to check, right?"

Seeing Zhang Zhixiang like this, the old celestial master was not impatient, but was very interested, and said: "Anaithology originated from astronomy. In Qin Jiushao's "Nine Chapters of the Book of Numbers", there is a saying of internal calculation and external calculation."

"Its words: Those who are tied to the square and the radius are called Chishu. They are all called external calculations, and they are also internal. Their functions are interlinked, and they cannot be differentiated."

"Internal calculations and external calculations are actually interlinked. What you see and know, how tall the building is, how long the shadows are, and the weight of objects are all external calculations. External calculations are intuitive and visible, so only external calculations will occur. the notion of theory."

"In fact, everything interferes with each other."

"The verifiers of the foreign calculation institute are all under a certain standard to ensure correctness."

"If the scale is not under control, it will not work. Today's external calculation method cannot calculate yin and yang. This is normal. After all, it is deducing the Dao. The descendants are endless, and the calculation is endless."

"I heard that Shanxi Wang Wensu has completed the book "Baojian of Mathematical Sciences", and has made some progress in foreign calculations. But for now, it is still far from enough."

"Maybe one day in the future, when the external calculation reaches a certain height, it can be deduced."

"Before that, when we observe the world and Tao, we still have to use internal calculations."

"Divination is widely used in internal calculations. The main ones are: Taiyi, Liuren, and Sanjia. Of course, these are small ways of magic. You will learn them later. Now we will continue to learn Dao."

There are such contents in "Nine Chapters of Shushu"?
Zhang Zhixiang knew about Qin Jiushao, a great mathematician, but he did not expect that ancient mathematics was so developed...

"When it comes to the calculation of yin and yang, it is not only difficult to deduce external calculations, but also difficult to deduce internal calculations. Therefore, it is necessary to divide Tai Chi into two forms, two forms into four forms, and four forms into eight trigrams, so five elements are needed."

"Since we want to talk about Tai Chi, we cannot avoid a story."

"Kuafu goes by the sun."

""Shan Hai Jing" records: Kuafu chased away with the sun, and entered the sun. Thirsty to drink, drink in the river and Wei, the river and Wei are insufficient, drink Daze in the north. Before arriving, Dao died of thirst. Abandoned his stick, turned into Deng Lin."

"Kuafu chasing the sun is indeed chasing the sun."

"Because Kuafu records the changes of the sun's shadow during the year in different places to determine the time of the day. The method of measuring the sun's shadow is the standard shadow measurement."

"He first measured in the Yellow River and Wei River basins, and found that it was not enough, so he went 'north'."

"This north is the extreme north of the sun."

"It is the area where the shadow length is zero at the time of the summer solstice."

"so."

"Beiyin Daze is going to the Yangtze River, but Kuafu passed away before the Yangtze River was measured, and the wooden pole he used to measure the shadow of the sun is peach wood, so we say that peach wood is a tree of pure yang, which has the effect of avoiding evil. effect."

"So where did Kuafu end up?"

"It's the Han River."

"Kuafu is not only measuring the shadow of the sun, he is also surveying and mapping the geography along the way. It is also the continuous surveying and mapping records of our ancestors that we have the Classic of Mountains and Seas handed down."

"After he surveyed and mapped the shape of the Han River, when he was thinking about the laws of astronomy at night, he saw the Milky Way by chance."

"The shape of the Milky Way is so similar to the Han River."

"So, name it the Han River."

"What is Han?"

"Why are we Han, not Qin? Not Zhou? Because there are Han in Weitian! Star Han is brilliant, this is our Han!"

"The sky hangs down like an image, and the sage follows it, and the name of the Han Dynasty is established."

"Let's use standard shadows to measure and draw the length of the shadows of the four seasons of the year, and get the Taiji diagram, which is sure to be divided into two, and the four seasons of harvesting are set. Kuafu is the father of China, so he is named after his father."

"What is China?"

"The country in the center is also the country of Suiming." (The oracle bone inscriptions with the character "中" are the pictographic characters of Guibiao Chouying. China refers to both the country in the center and the country that understands the way of heaven, so we call the Celestial Dynasty not actually its own Big.)
"First Suiren observed the big Mars, set the 'year' and had a calendar, and had the power to open the sky."

"Therefore, the Suiren clan was revered as the emperor. There was the Suiming Kingdom, and Kuafu was a native of the Suiming Kingdom. Because Kuafu got the four seasons calendar day by day, the Suiming Kingdom became the central state until Fuxi inherited the Suiming and Huaxu Kingdoms and became the co-lord of the world. The name is Zhonghua."

"There is Emperor Xi's painting to open the sky, develop Taiji, develop the five elements, and fix the gossip."

"From then on, the road is fixed."

Zhang Zhixiang was stunned, it turned out that the Chinese and Han people came from this way.

To learn the Tao, we must first figure out where we came from, how our civilization evolved to where it is today, how Yin and Yang, the five elements, and the eight trigrams all came about.

After Zhang Zhixiang digested it, the old master pointed to the Big Dipper in the sky and said.

"When the handle points to the east, it is spring; when the handle points to the south, it is summer; when the handle points to the west, it is autumn; when the handle points to the north, it is winter."

"To observe the sky, one must first observe the Big Dipper."

"The Beidou is the pointer, and the sky is the dial, with 28 scales."

"The seven constellations of the blue dragon in the east: Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Tail, and Kei; the seven constellations of the Xuanwu in the north: Dou, Niu, Nv, Xu, Wei, Shi, and Bi; the seven constellations of the white tiger in the west: Kui, Lou, Zhou, Pleiades, Bi, Xi, Shen; the southern Suzaku seven constellations: wells, ghosts, willows, stars, Zhang, wings, and Zhen."

"look."

"The direction the handle is pointing at now is the North Xuanwu, which happens to be between Xu and Nu."

"When is the winter solstice and the yang coming back? It is Zi, and the corresponding astrology is Dangerous, Void, and Female. After Zi, it is Chou, and the corresponding astrology is Niu, Dou."

"We often say qi rushing bullfighting, and describe the sword qi is sharp, because at this time the cold air between the sky and the earth is at its strongest, when the handle of the bucket turns over the bucket."

"The handle of the bucket returns to Yin, and the earth returns to spring. At this time... it is the first year of the year, the Spring Festival."

"look……"

"Rising from the tail of the dragon, turning left and upward, the blue dragon belongs to wood, the red bird belongs to fire in spring, the white tiger belongs to gold in summer, the basalt belongs to water in autumn, and the basalt belongs to water and winter."

The old celestial master stopped here, and Zhang Zhixiang muttered "wood fire, gold water", five elements, why is one missing?
Four seasons, five elements.

Not worthy...

"Brother, even though the center belongs to earth, why do the other four elements have seasons, but earth doesn't?" In Zhang Zhixiang's concept, earth should be the most important of the five elements, and it shouldn't be.

The old celestial master stroked his beard with a smile, and said: "It used to exist, but now it doesn't exist."

"In ancient times, October was used as the calendar, and a year was divided into five seasons, spring, summer, long summer, autumn, and winter. Long summer was earth. You see, wood makes fire, fire makes earth, earth makes metal, and metal makes Water, the five elements grow together, comes in the order of the five seasons."

In ancient times, it was actually an October calendar?

Zhang Zhixiang was a little confused, he couldn't figure out the ancient history, and he couldn't learn Taoism.

"But why did it still turn into four seasons?"

He is not being arrogant, he really does not understand that the images corresponding to the climate of the four seasons are very appropriate, and there is no situation in a year that can be used to correspond to the soil.

He just thought so, and the old heavenly master made an answer.

"Two seasons, four seasons, and five seasons are all classified."

"At first, there were only two seasons of yin and yang. Later, according to rain and snow, growth, heat, drought, and war, five seasons of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal were divided. Later, according to the weather of the four seasons, the rejuvenation of the earth was set as the beginning of the year. , there will be spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter."

"What is long summer? It grows in summer."

"It is said that there are five seasons, but in fact they are only four seasons. Long summer itself is still summer, just because fire is the mother of earth, so the period when fire is most prosperous is planned as earth season. In fact, earth is in the middle and has already become four seasons. Wood, fire Metal, water, the five elements have never been absolute? It's just between heaven and earth, at this time, a certain qi dominates it."

"The earth combines with the four seasons, and the four seasons are the five elements."

"understand?"

Although the old Tianshi was a little surprised that his juniors were obsessed with "segmentation", he could understand it and thought it was just cleverness in the wrong direction, so he taught Zhang Zhixiang patiently.

To tell him that everything is not absolute.

There is yang in yin, and yin in yang. The sage transformed yin and yang into five elements, but he did not isolate the five elements. Even though water and fire are mutually restraining, there is still fire in water, and water in fire...

Hunyuan is the core of internal calculation.

(End of this chapter)