"Yi" taxonomy - ancient ancestors' cognition of the world

1. The ancient ancestors how to know the world

Suppose you were an alien exile in a completely strange planet, alien left, you will be how to survive on this planet?The first thing to solve, should is to know the things around, and see what can eat, which can keep out the cold, when it will be cold, what time will be hot again, and so on.In the face of a lot never exposed to things, how can quickly understand them?

Ancient ancestors' is facing the same problem, they also need a kind of technology, to help them understand the unknown quickly, and in the nature to survive.

Put this question to today, we found that information from a large number of the unknown, it isBig data, and the process of knowing these things, it is similar to the artificial intelligenceMachine learningandData mining.So, to realize the process is the most basic wayClassification algorithm.

The ancients thought of this method, also they categorize everything in the world, the same kind of things with similar characteristics, and has a certain relationship between different classes.So, once encounter an unknown thing, as long as according to its characteristics, its into a known class, so, can quickly grasp the following information:

1. Through the characteristics of the known class, deduced the unknown is likely to have similar characteristics.
2. Through the relationship between the known class, deduced the unknown is likely to have a similar relationship between with other things.
3. The general rule of the development and change things.

2. How to classify

The next problem, that is, how to classify.The simplest method is dichotomy, that is, as we know the things can be divided into two types of Yin and Yang, is two.In the "yi", corresponding kun hexagrams Yin and Yang correspond to the originality.Huangdi nei jing, grain asked clutch theory of Yin and Yang ", said:"Number of Yin and Yang, ten, pushing the best;Number of thousand, push to all;Thousands of big, cannot be counted, but its also."So, in our world, all the binary opposition of things can be used to differentiate Yin and Yang, for example, heaven and earth, the moon and sun, night and day, cold, heat banded sticks, up and down, left and right sides, movement, and soft, and so on.The division of Yin and Yang is not absolute, can mutual transformation between them, can also contain each other.Moral by:"Anode shall have Yin, cathode shall have Yang, surplus will damage, bliss will failure.Waxing is deficient, perfect day is partial".It has well reflected on the tai chi fish:

The dichotomy of the shortcomings of Yin and Yang is the share is not fine, if you need to conduct the thorough research to the things, you will need to breakdown.

3. The four elephants

Obviously, the dichotomy is further subdivided quartering, namely the "easy" four elephants, shaoyang, old Yang, Yin, the Yin.In this way, the same is Yang, according to its degree of depth is further subdivided into old Yang Yang and less.Yin is the same.On the bearing, four elephants respectively corresponding to the east, south, west and north.On the season, corresponding spring, summer, autumn, winter.In the sky, the corresponding tsing lung, rosefinch, white, black,

Yin and Yang, and similar, also can mutual transformation between the four elephants, conversion sequence and the change of seasons.

Similarly, India also has a similar quartering, it is thought that all substances in the world can be divided into land, water, wind, fire, four, or by the big four false match.From "nothing" in Buddhism.

4. The five elements

Chinese traditional culture pays attention to the middle way, so on the basis of the four elephants, add a class that represents the tathagata, get five elements, namely, gold, wood, water, fire and earth:

With the five elements, as it were, basically is better at classifying all things of the world.Huangdi nei jing. True speech "golden, said:"East cyan, into the flux in the liver, begin to understand in the eye, hide in liver, its disease hair astonishment, its flavour acid, the type of vegetation, the cattle chicken, the valley of wheat, it shall be four, for Jupiter, the head also in ChunQi, its Angle, its number eight, also is the knowledge of the disease in the muscle, the smelly SAO.Southern red, enter in the heart, begin to understand in the ear, hidden in the heart, so the disease in five zang, its bitter taste, the type of fire, the cattle and sheep, and the valley millet, it should be four, stars for Mars, is based on knowledge of the disease in the vein, also its character, its number seven, the smelly.Central yellow, into the flux in the spleen, begin to understand in the mouth, hidden in the spleen, so the disease in the tongue, the taste, the type of soil, the cattle, its GuJi, it should be four, ZhenXing is on, with knowledge of the disease in the meat, the palace, the number of five, as the smelly smell.Western white, into in the lung, begin to understand in the nose, hidden in the lungs, so the disease in the back, its taste, its kind of gold, the cattle horse, the valley of rice, it should be four, Venus is on, with knowledge of the disease in fur, its sound, its bitter, the smelly.Black, north into the flux in the kidney, begin to understand in Yin, hidden in the kidney, so the disease in the creek, its taste salty, the type of water, the livestock zhan, its GuDou, it should be four, to the stars, is based on knowledge of the disease in the bone, also its sound plume, the number six, vice versa.".Visible, from five sides, five colours and five zang-organs, facial features, five, five livestock, grain, tune, to five smelly, can be divided by five line.

Now back to our questions in the first quarter, "huang di" and the author of the compendium of materia medica, when meet an unknown herbs, is to use the five lines of classification method.Observe the color, for example, if it is red, so basically belongs to the fire, into the heart sutra;Taste, if they are sour, then basically is the five elements belongs to wood, such as the liver meridian., of course, if you need to learn more about the medicinal properties, but also need to be within the observation method, we will discuss in detail later.

5. Gossip

If for each of four elephants like to binary, we get the gossip, respectively is dry, against, leave, shock, xun, candy, gen, kun.Through the gossip, can put everything in nature is divided into eight classes, specific as follows:

• For days: yuan heng, zhen.
• He is to: yuan heng, which Ma Zhizhen.Gentleman there are up to, the winner of the fan before, southwest of the friend, the northeast lost friends.Anzhen, ji.
• Candy for water: acquisition, first, d heart heng, line there.
• Away from the fire: Jane, heng.Which cattle cattle, ji.
• Shock for ray: heng.Shock to Xi Xi, 7.Shock thyme, don't lost Bi Chang.
• Gen for sa: gen its back, not for its body, the court, no person, no blame.
• Xun to the wind: a small hang, the wife to, see the adult.
• Against the jersey: heng, zhen.

There are two kinds of the order of the gossip, respectively is innate gossip and acquired gossip:

6. Sixty-four hexagrams

Gossip further subdivided again, can have 16 hexagrams, 32 hexagrams.However, our ancestors over the taxonomy, direct access to the sixty-four hexagrams, each hexagram is made up of two gossip.In this way, no matter in the interpretation or memory will more easily.In the "yi" has a detailed explanation of each sticks, go here.

7. Continue to segment?

Sixty-four hexagrams, can comprehensively covers all things, and can guarantee the segmentation precision.So, there is necessary to continue down to 128 hexagrams, 256 hexagrams...?Our ancestors gave no answer, so far, a classification of the sixty-four hexagrams is enough.Though they did not give reasons for doing so, however, today's molecular biology is an explanation is given, and the DNA triplet, 64 order may be set up exactly corresponds to the "yi" by the sixty-four hexagrams.Because with the DNA code can be constructed out of all living things in the world, so the coincidence seems to suggest that the us, "yi" by the sixty-four hexagrams, can also correspond to everything in the world.

8. The ancients taxonomy of genius

Compared to our current taxonomy, the ancients have the better method for, because it is not only to classify things, and through these classes to clarify the relationship between things.Since the sixty-four hexagrams can cover everything, so of course can also correspond to the same thing in different time under the condition, and how the state transformation.So, "yi", also, the whole book of changes is to tell us the general law of things development and change.

9. With the principle of "yi" by fortune-telling

Mentioned earlier, "yi" tell us general laws of development of things change, we can use this rule for divination fortune-telling.There are two kinds of specific methods:

1. For one thing, to determine the initial state, then the current and future state can use the sixty-four hexagrams deduction and, concrete is divided into two kinds:
   1. Deduction of historical development and prediction.
   2. Prediction of personal destiny.
2. In some way to get the current state of things.

The following is respectively.

10. "yi" dynasties rise and fall of the prediction

There are a lot of prophecy in history.As long as it is China's ancient prophecy, however, are usually based on the zhouyi, such as plough and Li Chunfeng tang yuan's "TuiBei figure", its basic principle is to determine the Numbers of the initial state, and then you can constantly push performance each subsequent time point Numbers, such as 32 as below:

Corresponding is well hexagrams, corresponding dynasty Ming peasant uprising.

Section of the northern song dynasty scholar shao wrote a treatise emperor extremely classic book, has carried on the systematic introduction to the technology, he used his timeYuan will be shippedFour units, the minimum time for 30 years, and then set the start time of human civilization, also is the end of the quaternary glacial period, about twelve thousand years ago, since this work behind the hexagrams in each life is like:

11. "yi" by predicting the fate of individuals

Similarly, predicting the fate of individuals, is to get people born with state of the initial value, also is the year, month, day, when the so-called four pillars, and then according to the "yi" by the sixty-four hexagrams, the change rule of calculated born later generations the fate of the development.

After reading "easy", says Mr Zhang Qicheng one who is, won't depressed, why?Our view, one of the "easy" sticks, called no divination, no heaven and earth (no hexagrams) do not pay the impassability, corresponding to the person is in the face of adversity, to the extreme bad luck, then it is easy to depression.However, if read "yi", will know that everything is constantly changing, so a person will not always be is in a state of "no" hexagrams, and in the following state, is the "tiger" hexagrams, heaven and earth in Thai, is in the good times, good luck to the extreme.This is the so-called "after a storm comes a calm.

12. The current state of the direct access to

The other kind of forecast method is more simple, through the qualifying examination and state of deduction, but direct access to the current state.This method is the earliest king wen of zhou was king zhou held in the form of the place of the invention, the basic idea is to grasp a yarrow, then the number of grass, and thus get the current state is still bad.Shao section in the northern song dynasty that this method is too complex, so we design a simplified method, with three pieces of copper thrown up at the same time, look after falling copper heads, so that left six times can get six hexagram, divination good or ill luck.

See here, a lot of people would say, is this superstition?Whether a handful yarrow or cast copper, the result is random, how can you judge the fortunes of good or ill luck?Actually said this person, made a preconceived errors, random statistical theory that is able to reflect the objective law of world science.Is it really the case?

The story of a famous elephant, there are several blind respectively different parts of the touch is like, so, touch the thigh, like is like a pillar, touch the tail, like a rope, and so on.But in fact, they have no one really understand to like the whole picture.The world is the elephant, but we just touch the elephant's blind.This world is too large and complex, and the random statistical theory, seem to explain part of the problem, so we regard it as the truth, but in fact, maybe this is just the elephant's tail.In addition, there are a karma theory in Buddhism, all the development and change of all things in the world is not random, but driven by karma.

If use this theory to explain the divination, is reasonable.People who have decided to make the industry, the karma drive to get to the corresponding number of yarrow or corresponding state of copper, in order to get the current state.Why can the heart of the industry have so magical powers?Is that the mind and the universe's ultimate system, collective unconscious is associated.Through the collective unconscious, not only can know the current status, but also can learn about the past and future of state.That is why some monks can predict the future in the past.

13. But he that doeth good, don't ask future

A friend asked me to help him fortune, I said, you should not ask me, you should ask yourself.If you always do things according to their conscience, even if there is no luck, at least the evil will be away from you.If you always do the reluctant, so even if there is no disaster, a moral man will gradually alienated from you, your chart will slowly the skids.

The journal is too in the induction said: "the fortunes of gates, but since the call;Of good and evil, follow you. ".Just treat it as quotes to recite the past, but now much more experience, go back and look at yourself, look at the people around, notting have is not the case.Sometimes we also can't see the retribution of good and evil, just not able to a higher or more dimensions to look at.