Is the metaphysics mentioned in ancient China true?

The matter of metaphysics is a matter of benevolence and wisdom. People who have never been exposed to it naturally don’t care about anything and have no sense of awe. I study metaphysics and my main field is divination. There are many scammers in this area. There are some half-hearted nonsense, so metaphysics has been regarded as a lie by many people in recent years. If you don’t touch some things, you won’t know how deep they are. When you see ice steaming, you will say that ice is hot. There are too many people. I have studied metaphysics for a long time and there are many things that I don’t understand. Let me talk about my understanding of metaphysics. I mainly study divination. From the perspective of divination, it is divination, that is, fortune-telling (not fortune-telling). The main function of fortune-telling is to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, but in most cases, I do the fortune-telling. I can only say that it is of no use. Questions about relationships are the most common. I know clearly that it is not good to quarrel every day and that the two of us are not suitable, but we insist on doing fortune telling to find peace of mind. It is really unnecessary. In my understanding Fortune telling is a mathematical formula that we cannot understand. People who understand it should know what I mean. Simply put, it is x+y=1. The result that the fortune teller wants to know is x. Some of the things I asked the fortune teller are y. Through fortune telling, I You can know what x is, but the process of unraveling the hexagram is very complicated, which is why many people are not sure. We are missing part of these formulas, just like x squared under the root sign is equal to two, we know that x may be ±4, this is because the lack of formula leads to calculating two results and then talking about the phase. I study Feng Shui, which is even simpler. The so-called Luantou School and Li Qi School of Feng Shui are just different manifestations of Qi. Combing this Qi can achieve a unified A peaceful or extremely prosperous state will lead to different results. This is how the prosperity of a house comes, which may be a bit incomprehensible. Now I can know whether the house is prosperous or not just by walking in front of other people's houses. Whether you can gather wealth or not, some disaster may have occurred (car accident, stabbing, etc.). This is the charm of metaphysics. Whether you are powerful or not can only depend on the individual. There are many powerful people in metaphysics, and they can decide life and death with one finger. , there are some things that cannot be said, but I hope everyone can maintain awe in treating ancient Chinese arts and accumulate some moral integrity. Metaphysics is something of the ancestors, so there is no need to scold the ancestors

Five Chinese Folk Metaphysics Techniques, that is: mountains, medicine, fortune, divination, fortune-telling, etc. It can also be said that there are tens of thousands of various metaphysical books collected by the Secret Book Network or the Ancient Book Pavilion.

Shan refers to the study of immortality, including cultivating scriptures, refining alchemy, and spells.

Medicine, that is, traditional Chinese medicine, relies on meridian science, treatment with Daoyin, Zhuyou techniques, and prescriptions.

Fate, that is, numerology, relies on horoscopes, stars, and divine numbers to reason about destiny.

Divination refers to divination. Taiyi, Qimen and Liuren are called divination, Meiyi and Liuyao are used for hexagrams, fortune-telling, dream-telling and drawing lots are used for miscellaneous divination. , to predict good or bad luck.

Physiography, that is, the study of physiognomy, is a great science in the world, including the art of fortune-telling (astrology), the art of fortune-telling (feng shui), and the art of fortune-telling (face, palm, body, voice, etc.)

Metaphysics is a philosophical trend that emerged during the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties and mainly synthesized Taoism and Confucianism, so it is often called "Metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties". Metaphysics was the mainstream thought that replaced the Confucian classics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Metaphysics is the "study of Xuanyuan". It bases its theory on "ancestral records of Laozi and Zhuangzi" and synthesizes Confucianism and Taoism. It calls "The Book of Changes", "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi" the "Three Mysteries". The "mysterious" of metaphysics comes from Laozi's thoughts. "Laozi Chapter 1" says: "Mysterious is mysterious, and it is the door to all mysteries."

Xuan is the general law "Tao" that governs all things in the world. It embodies the infinite and mysterious changes of all things. The metaphysicians used their transformed thoughts of Lao and Zhuang to annotate the Confucian Analects and Zhouyi, transformed the Confucian classics of the Han Dynasty that had lost their role in maintaining people's hearts, and established a philosophical ontology based on nothingness. .

Five Techniques of Metaphysics

1. Mountains

Mountains contain the secret skills of cultivating the mind, cultivating the nature, and exercising the body. "Mountain" is also the most profound and mysterious, and the one most easily misunderstood as "superstition".

"Shan" contains three parts of practice: "Xuan Dian", "Health Preservation" and "Cultivation of Secrets". "Xuandian" - all good books that can cultivate one's moral character can be used for cultivation, such as "Laozi", "Zhuangzi", "Liezi", "Sunzi", "Tai Gong Yin Fu Jing", "Huangdi Nei Jing", "Tao Zang" ” and even “Journey to the West”... all books are used to enrich their thoughts and understand the principles of the universe.

"Health Preservation" - Qigong, the breathing method for pursuing health and longevity. For example, the Taoist method of alchemy is called heavenly elixir, human elixir, and earthly elixir.

"Cultivation of Secrets" - spells, suppression, star prayer, martial arts, etc., methods that use movement and the unity of spirit and thoughts to improve the physical and mental realm.

There are also occult sects that divide the "mountain" into five methods: immortal, Taoist, illusory, spiritual, and military. And its scope is inseparable from the above three parts.

Mountain is the most difficult realm to reach in the secret arts. Strictly speaking, it is the effort of mortals to cultivate immortality and the metaphysical pursuit of transcendence. Only the flow of "fate, divination, fortune-telling, and medicine" In the Jianghu mortal world, I help the world.

2. Medicine

Metaphysical "medicine" includes three parts.

Prescription - a method of using medicine to treat various diseases according to the external and internal conditions, deficiency and excess, cold and heat, and based on the ancient principles of Yin and Yang and Bagua.

Acupuncture is a method of treating diseases by using the "Huangdi Neijing" and "Difficult Classic" to identify the eight extraordinary meridians and acupoints, and using copper needles to prick the acupoints.

Spiritual therapy - a method that uses hypnosis, suggestion and concentration of thoughts, and uses "Thirteen Branches of Zhu You" to make medicine to treat diseases.

3. Fate

Numerology is to use the time and space of a person's birth to speculate on a person's life trajectory and information about the good and bad luck of his six relatives.

Numerology has a long history, dating back to ancient times. With the evolution of history, the art of numerology has developed to become more and more perfect. In all dynasties, there were counselors who were deeply familiar with this art to assist princes and generals, such as King Wen of Zhou and Jiang Shang in the Zhou Dynasty, Sun Bin in the Warring States Period, Zhuge Liang in the Han Dynasty, Li Chunfeng of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty, etc. There are also some hermits, such as Old Ancestor Chen, Old Man Yehe, Shao Kangjie and so on.

Astrology-Astrology includes "Seven Policies and Four Surplus", "Zi Wei Dou Shu", and "Five Star Techniques".

The art of stems and branches - in ancient times, due to the underdeveloped productivity of human beings and their low level of understanding, they were unable to explain the mysterious natural phenomena and their own poverty and longevity, so there was the idea that heaven and earth govern everything in the world and in the world. . In the words of the "Book of Changes", it is called "changes in the main roads, each rectifying his life".

It was later promoted by Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, an old master who believed in destiny and his disciples. (It was later promoted by Confucius, a thinker who believed deeply in destiny and his disciples)

The origin of numerology in our country roughly began in the Han Dynasty, mainly recorded in "White Tiger Tongyi" and Wang Chong In his "Lunheng" work. By the Tang Dynasty, it had developed rapidly, and it was basically determined that the heavenly stems and earthly branches of a person's birth year, month, day, and hour would be used to predict the life's nobleness, longevity, good and bad luck, and blessings.

After further development and improvement by Xu Ziping, a man from the Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty, numerology entered a mature and perfect stage based on the four pillars of birth date, month, day and time.

The so-called "four pillars" means that the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the year of birth are one pillar, the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the month are the second pillar, the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the date are the third pillar, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the hour are the fourth pillar. Each column has one character for Heavenly Stem, one character for Earthly Branches, and one character for ***. Then by calculating according to the yin and yang and five elements contained in the horoscope, the general situation of a person's life destiny can be inferred. Although Bazi was continuously improved and developed after the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the basic theory of the early Song Dynasty remained unchanged.

Based on the time of birth of a person, the year, month, day and hour are arranged according to the heavenly stems and earthly branches to form a birth chart. The four pillars contain the most ancient books. The main ancient books are: "Guolao Xingzong", "Xingping Huihai", "Yuanhai Ziping", "Guigu's Legacy", "Sun Bin's Legacy", "Three Ming Tonghui", "Qingtong Baojian" (also known as Lanjiang Gang), "Drip Tianmui", "Shenfeng Tongkao" , "Tiepanshenshu", "Heluo Lishu", "Ziping Zhenquan", "Ziping Cuiyan" and so on. There are so many numerology works written by modern people that they are too numerous to mention. There are many wise men in the future generations.

4. The five arts of metaphysics - divination

To talk about divination, we must first talk about the I Ching. Taking a closer look, imitating the conditions of all things, he drew an oriental "magic talisman" that is shocking to the world and makes ghosts and gods weeping - Tai Chi Bagua (also known as Xiantian Bagua).

After that, the sages of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties changed into "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhouyi" based on the relationship between Heluo body and function and their respective understanding of the innate Yi Jing. It's three changes.

The Book of Changes has three variations. Among them, Lianshan was created with the 28 constellations in the circumference of the sky and the principle of square and circle. The number of three and four sides of a circle with seven diameters and seven was used. "Guizang" used Five is used as ten. The four directions in the center are five multiplied by themselves to be 25, which is the number of Heluo. The four directions and four corners plus the bottom are ten, and ten are multiplied by themselves to be one hundred, which is the number of Dayan.

The "Book of Changes" is based on the study of Fuxi Bagua by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty in the late Shang Dynasty when he was imprisoned in Qiangli. ", founded King Wen's Bagua, also known as Houtian Bagua.

The innate Bagua reflects the treatment of He Tu, which focuses on life. The acquired Bagua shows that Luo Shu is used for popular purposes, mainly for restraint. The Book of Changes contains the physical and functional relationship between heaven and earth. At this point, every layout of the entire universe corresponds to this model of "parallel with heaven and earth" - the "Bagua Najia Diagram", and the Book of Changes has gradually been improved.

Divination has the longest history of all numerology and metaphysics. Most military strategists in historical dynasties were proficient in this art. Zhuge Liang of the Han Dynasty, Li Chunfeng of the Tang Dynasty, Shao Kangjie of the Song Dynasty, Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty Zeng Guofan of Zeng Guofan... Among all the arts, the divination school has the longest history and evolved from the ancient Zhouyi, such as "Plum Blossom Yishu", "Najia Duanyi", "Liuren Shenke", "Taiyi Shenshu", " "Qi Men Dun Jia" and other mathematics.

In some sects, this part of divination also includes prophecy, dream prediction, word detection, sign reading, nameology and other techniques.

King Wen’s Bagua has been passed down and developed by generations of sages. By the Song Dynasty, most of the people had mastered and applied it. The most representative one was Shaokang Festival. Its application of the Zhouyi Divination was almost divine at that time, and it was also promoted by the Yi Dynasty. The performance created the immortal masterpiece "Plum Blossoms Are Easy to Count".

"Plum Blossoms Yishu", with its simple and fast prediction method and simple yet "esoteric" theoretical basis, is deeply favored by Yi-study enthusiasts and is widely used.

In ancient times, Shao Kangjie observed plum blossoms and divined personnel affairs. Later generations called this method the Plum Blossom Numbering. In fact, Shao Kangjie had already achieved proficiency in Zhouyi Bagua predictions at that time and reached the highest level of Zhouyi divination." Use Tao to observe phenomena, and use images to describe things."

What we understand now about Yi Shu is still very superficial and cannot be separated from "image" and "number". Therefore, it is wrong to decipher Shao Kangjie's thinking of observing plum blossoms and then governor. Shao Kangjie observed images and directly said When we understand things, we start counting by observing phenomena, using numbers to start hexagrams, and then using hexagrams to see things is wrong. Shaokang Festival's Guanmei divination is actually "observing images with Tao". Observing images with Tao is the highest level of prediction. Typical hexagrams include Guanmei divination, Guanhua divination, Temple plaque divination, etc. In fact, Shao Kangjie did not have any idea at all at that time. Hexagrams directly use what happened at that time to describe what will happen in the future. Later, we will look at the outcome of the event in detail based on Xiangzai.

5. Five Metaphysical Techniques - Phase

The phase part includes two types - human phase and earth phase.

Personal physiognomy—Personal physiognomy includes palmistry, face, body physiognomy, bone palpation, mole comparison, etc. Chinese palmistry also has a long history. As far back as the Zhou Dynasty (approximately more than 3,000 years ago), various types of physiognomy were widely popular in various countries in the Central Plains.

Among the pre-Qin scholars, Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi had the closest relationship with physiognomy. Regarding the records of Confucius and physiognomy, we can see it from "Historical Records of the Confucius Family" and "Hanzi Wai Zhuan" A spot.

It is recorded in it, "The eyes of a human being cannot hide his evil. If his mind is right, his eyes will be like an oyster. Inhale his words and observe his eyes..." From this, we can see his appearance, words and deeds. Human thought and behavior. Among them, Xunzi once wrote works such as "Feixiang Pian".

By the Han Dynasty, physiognomy had achieved significant development. And there appeared physiognomists who were famous both in government and in public circles for their physiognomy. The Zhou Bo family in "Hanshu" and "Chu Han Chun Qiu" and other books have preserved many relevant records. Among them, physiognomists such as Xu Fu and Lu Gongwang are the most famous. In the Han Dynasty, Xu Fu was the most famous. Xu Fu was originally a woman. She was named the Female Pavilion Marquis by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty because she was good at facial expressions. According to the "Huaiqing Mansion Chronicles", Xu Fu was the author of "Song of Deqi", "Song of Deqi" and "Song of Deqi". "Miscellaneous Treatise on the Five Senses", "Listening to Sounds and Moving Together", etc.

Nowadays, we often see books such as "Xu Negative's Phrase Method" mentioned in many photo books, but most of them are photo books written with other names. For example, Zhou Lvjing's "Sixteen Chapters on Xu Negative's Appearance" written by Zhou Lvjing in the Ming Dynasty was passed down as her work.

Wang Chong's "Lunheng" of the Eastern Han Dynasty contains the "Bone Physiology Chapter", and Wang Fu's "Qian Fu Lun" contains the "Liu Xiang Chapter" which specifically discusses physiognomy. Another example is that there are 24 chapters on "Physiognomy" in the "Book of Han", from which we can see that the theoretical basis of physiognomy had been basically formed in the Han Dynasty.

In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, physiognomy had been further developed and popularized. In "Three Kingdoms" we can often see the deeds of many physiognomy figures, such as Guan Luo, Zhu Jianping, Liu Wujing, etc.

By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the development of physiognomy had reached its peak. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, physiognomy entered a mature period. Among them, the records in the Sui Dynasty include Wei Ding, Lai He, etc. in "Sui Shu". Among them, "Sui Shu-Jing Ji Zhi" contains 46 "Xiangshu" and "Xiang Jing Yao". "Records" two chapters, etc.

Physiognomy developed extremely rapidly in the Tang Dynasty. Historical data can be found in Yuan Tiangang in "Book of Tang". The physiognomists of the Tang Dynasty include Yuan Tiangang, Long Fuben, Xia Rong, Ding Chong, Liu Sili, Yuan Keshi, etc. Among them, the famous poets Du Mu, Han Yu and Bai Juyi were also good at studying physiognomy. By the Tang Dynasty, there were as many as thirty types of physiognomy

By the Song Dynasty, physiognomy had become quite developed. Chen Tuan in the "History of the Song Dynasty" recorded in Shiji can be found in Ming Shang Zhi Ji. The main physiognomists include Chen Tuan, Ma Yi Taoist, Seng Miaoying, Miao Fang, etc. The literati Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty were also good at physiognomy. There were many photo books in the Song Dynasty, and there are many famous photo books that have been handed down to this day, such as "Yuebo Cave Zhongji", "Yuguan Shenzhao Bureau", "Ma Yi Xiangfa" and so on.

In the Ming Dynasty, physiognomy also developed greatly in the Yuan and Qing dynasties. There were relatively few records of physiognomy and famous physiognomy in the Yuan Dynasty, and "Rengan Datong Fu" was written at this time. There were many famous physiognomists in the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of physiognomy books appeared. The main physiognomists include Liu Bowen, Seng Rulan, Zhang Tian, ??Yuan Gong, Yuan Zhongche and his son. Among them, the Yuan family and his son are the most famous.

The most popular "Yongle Hundred Questions" in physiognomy comes from the dialogue between Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty and the father and son of the Yuan family. Yuan Gong has "Liuzhuang Xiangfa" included in "Yongle Dadian", and Yuan Zhongche has "Human Xiang Dacheng". The "Liuzhuang Xiangfa" that has been widely circulated by future generations is related to the Yuan family and his son.

Traditional Chinese physiognomy developed to the Ming Dynasty and became a masterpiece, "The Complete Collection of Divine Physiognomy", which was secretly passed down by Chen Tuan and revised by Yuan Zhongche. Related works on physiognomy include "Ancient and Modern Physiognomy" and "Ancient and Modern Physiognomy". "Complete Book of Physiograms" and "Guijian's Five Elements Physics Book". Among them, "Ma Yi Xiangfa" and "Liuzhuang Xiangfa" had a great influence on later generations. "Ma Yi Shen Xiang" first appeared in the Song Dynasty, was written in the Ming Dynasty, and took shape in the Qing Dynasty.

Based on the development of physiognomy in the Ming Dynasty, physiognomy in the Qing Dynasty achieved greater development. The main works of Xiangfa in the Qing Dynasty include Fan Wenyuan's "Shui Jing Ji", Yungu Shanren's "Tieguan Dao", Qixia Shanren's "Jin Jie Jian", Zen Master Bai Feng's "Secret Leaves of Lingshan", Shi Ting's "Yanshan" Divine Appearances", Gao Weiqing's "Da Qing Xianfa", said to be "Taiyi Zhaoshen" by Taoist Youji, "Xiangli Hengzhen" by Chen Danye, "Xiangtu Secret Purpose" by Yungu Shanren, etc. Among them, "Tie Guan Dao" and "Jin Jiao Jian" are the most concise and to the point, while "Shui Jing Ji" and "Xiangli Heng Zhen" have the most complete features, and are the most complete collection after "Shen Xiang Quan Bi".

In the Republic of China, relatively easy-to-understand physiognomy books appeared, among which "Pingyuan Xiangfa" and "Gongdu Xiangfa" are the most famous. Other books on physiognomy include "Exploring the Origin of Chinese and Western Physiognomy", "Integration of Physiognomy", "Palmistry", "Secret Book of Physiology", "Female Physiology", "Secret Phraseology", etc.

Since palmistry can be called an academic, it, like other academics, has its own unique academic rationality, analysis and systematicity. The purpose of studying palmistry is to observe a person's character, moral character, and courage, to understand one's own abilities and tendencies, to ascertain one's innate health status, and to predict one's future destiny, or one's success or failure at a certain time or in a lifetime, so as to avoid them. .

Dixiang - Dixiang, commonly known as Feng Shui, also known as Kanyu, has been involved in Xiangzhai activities as early as the pre-Qin Dynasty. On the one hand, it is the residence of the living people, and on the other hand, it is the cemetery of the dead people. "Shangshu - Preface to the Zhaozhao" says: "King Cheng was in Feng and wanted to live in the city, so he asked Duke Zhao to live in the prime minister's house first." This is Xiangyang's house. "The Book of Filial Piety - Bereavement" "divide the signs of his house and call it a house". This is Xiangyin's house. This is how to choose a location through divination