Chapter 2126 The Battle of Flowers (34)

  In addition to the gossip, the Chinese also have an unfathomable chart, namely the Vena, and the Chinese mathematics system is built on the basis of the Vena.

  Luoshu presents a grid of nine palaces. The number five is located in the center of the nine palaces, and the other eight palaces are arranged around the four squares. The numbers of the eight palaces correspond to the eight trigrams. As for Luo Shu, the dragon and horse that haunted Luoshui gave it to Dayu.

We have noticed that the number "five" plays an extremely important role in various classification disciplines, such as the five elements, wood, fire, earth, gold and water. These five numbers can also represent musical notes, such as Gongshangjiao Zhengyu, the earliest Guqin only Five strings, and then King Wen of Zhou added one, and King Wu added another, and it became a lyre.

   The sum of the two qin should be ten strings, but Zhuangzi said it was 25 strings. Did he make a mistake? If it is multiplication, 25 roots is correct, but why is multiplication used in this place?

   "Nine-Nine Songs" existed at least in the Warring States Period, and children were memorized as songs, which reminded Nick of his career of learning arithmetic when he was studying, which was not a happy memory for him.

   "Nine" and "Five" both represent the Supreme Being, among which "Five" is regarded as "Tai Chi" and is the source of all things, so "Nine Five Supreme" also represents the emperor.

   "Five" in the Book of Changes represents the need for hexagrams, and its preface hexagrams are expressed as young things must be nourished, and must be the way of diet.

   can be understood as a young child, he needs to eat to grow up, if a young child does not give him food, he will not grow up.

  When a young child is still young, he is ignorant and needs to be taught, so the previous hexagram needed is the ignorant hexagram.

  Teachers are needed to educate children, but there will be disputes before that. What kind of teachers should I hire and what should I learn? Or in other words, it is because of solving the problem of eating that a lawsuit is caused. During the growth period, everything needs more nutrition, so there is a competition, and there must be a lot of people to cause a dispute, so the front of the teacher's hexagram is the lawsuit hexagram.

There are many similarities between the hexagram of the lawsuit and the hexagram of the need. The so-called six lines, Nick's understanding is the sixty-four hexagrams of the innate, and the six bars of each hexagram, some of which are "——", which represent yang, and some are "-" —" This means Yin.

In the ninth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the second year of the "Battle for Tribute", Wang Yangming arrived in Nanjing and was called the Minister of Honglu Temple. This position was responsible for entertaining foreign guests, similar to a diplomat, and he was also responsible for various banquets. , sacrificial activities. The Ministry of Rites is a very important department, because Confucius respects etiquette. When others give gifts, returning gifts is a kind of etiquette.

   It is difficult for the Chinese to understand and accept the tributary system and the tributary trade. "It is a pleasure to have friends from afar." It is guests and friends who come from afar. How can guests and friends talk about interests?

Sima Qian wrote in the opening chapter of the "Historical Records" that "the world is full of profit." The noble class who regards money as dung is certainly admirable, but both Tao Yuanming and Su Dongpo's family have certain wealth. , reading is still the right of a small number of people.

  Buddhism offers a learning opportunity different from Confucianism and is not monopolized by the church like in Europe, because of the generous donations of believers.

Buddhists are indeed very rich. They can build gorgeous temples and paint murals with precious paints. It is precisely because of this that in order to protect themselves, Japanese temples hire monks and soldiers to protect themselves, thus forming a powerful force. Indirectly exacerbated social and political unrest.

Chinese Buddhism has also become different after being localized. The monks in Southern Shaolin will not call on the nearby believers to resist the Qing army to protect the temple, and let their temple be destroyed. If the Greeks saw the Romans destroyed How would you feel about their temple?

In Buddhism, the ultimate goal of personal practice is to break samsara and enter nirvana, and when "thought is not abiding", it will naturally get rid of the shackles of karma, that is, beyond cause and effect, as long as you can keep this state, you will no longer fall Entering reincarnation, or as Taoists say, "jumping out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements".

The eminent monk Hui Neng is of Zen Buddhism. In addition to the doctrine of "pointing directly to the heart, seeing one's nature and becoming a Buddha", another feature of Zen Buddhism is meditation, which must have originated in India, because their cross-legged posture and shape are the same of.

  Taoism also has meditation, and such an idea of ​​meditation is rooted in Zhuangzi. Wang Yangming, from the standpoint of Confucianism, also proposed the realm of "the heart is like a mirror", similar to what Shenxiu put forward, "the body is a bodhi tree, and the heart is like a bright mirror, always wipe away, and don't let dust."

There is a word in English called turkey farm, which means a place to place idlers. Not only Wang Yangming is idle, but other officials in Nanjing are also idle. They study Wang Yangming's theory in their spare time, listen to his lectures, and then They did not feel that they compared what Wang Yangming said with Zen Buddhism and found many similarities.

  Hui Neng’s line of Zen practitioners have an epiphany, saying that for those with good aptitude, as for those with poor aptitude, it is better to sit in meditation honestly.

Although Wang Yangming's "Abstaining from the outside and seeking the inside" also includes Zen-style penance, his theories are still different from those of Zen and Taoism, but Nick can't tell what the difference is. Just a conversation.

  The grapes composed of fireworks slowly dissipated, replaced by butterflies dancing, just like the butterflies in Zhuang Zhou's dream.

   Immediately after, countless spiral columns of flames lifted into the air, and the spiral fireworks were dazzling, and they continued to burn for a few minutes.

Then there appeared hundreds of colorful lanterns, painted with fruits, flowers and fans of various styles. This is a lamp similar to the principle of a hot air balloon. It was invented by a man named Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms period. Kongming lanterns...

   "Read it," said Bonaparte.

   "Cough cough." Georgiana pretended to have a dry mouth, then took a sip of wine and swallowed it before continuing.

After a while, a huge blue firework rose into the sky, it looked like a blue rose, and after the blue flame took off, there was a loud noise, but there were no new fireworks in the sky, it seemed that this gorgeous fireworks The fireworks show has ended.

  Nick is a little weird, but like most people don't care.

   Today Guangzhou is very lively, and the streets are full of beggars. They sing "Lotus Falls" at the door of the shop owner. The impatient owner will give them something to send them away, so as to prevent them from blocking the door and hindering their business.

   Many of the doors of these shops are also posted with a note saying "Monks and nuns don't enter".

  Begging is actually another form of begging. This is another confusing point. Why are some Buddhist temples so rich?

  Why leave the comfort of a temple and Taoist temple to "walk around"?

  Nick wished someone could explain it to him, but he had a feeling his governess wouldn't know the answer.

   At this time Nick walked into a store because he saw a mirror, and it was a bronze mirror.

   He bought it almost jokingly, and it has a peach pattern on the back, which represents longevity.

   Just as he was playing with it, a figure suddenly appeared in the mirror.

   That man was the one who punched Nick and attacked him with the others. He called out "brother" in the labyrinthine alley.

  Nick chased out immediately, mixed in with the crowd, and followed behind him.

   But they didn't go far when there was a sudden commotion on the street, everyone was running, and the young man in front also noticed something was wrong. He turned around and saw Nick, and he also recognized the "yellow-haired spy".

   So he got into the alley again, and when Nick ran past, he was already at the corner of the alley, and he was about to disappear.

   (end of this chapter)