Co-existence of medical and Taoist homology and double peaks
Traditionally, China once said that the two academic systems were formed in a similar period, with the three philosophical concepts of Yin-Yang, Five Elements and Essence as the theoretical cornerstone, and the language and culture are interlinked, which are all explorations of human science. Physicians focus on preventing and treating diseases to prolong life, while Taoists take self-cultivation as the highest realm.
Huangdi Neijing is the source of Chinese medicine culture, and its appearance ended the primitive state of our ancestors' medical treatment and created the social trend of civilized education. Its completion is by no means an isolated cultural phenomenon, but the inevitable result of the development of excellent national culture.
In the pre-Qin period, the two most influential thinkers were Laozi and Confucius, who were contemporaries. Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching, which initiated the Taoist school, and Confucius' collection of speeches was The Analects, which initiated the Confucian school. Since then, a hundred schools of thought contend, attack each other, learn from each other's strong points, create a precedent for later generations' ideology and culture, and become the source of China's traditional culture. Confucius also wrote Yi Zhuan, which was the most important philosophical work in the pre-Qin period.
The opening work of Huangdi Neijing is Su Wen's ancient naive theory. The first one is "the ancients knew it, learned Yin and Yang, and counted tricks", "both form and spirit", "nothing, the true qi followed" and "spirit included"; And "nourishing heaven and earth, grasping yin and yang, breathing * * * qi, and protecting god independently"; "Virtue is all-round", "focusing on the whole, marching between heaven and earth, extending beyond audio and video"; "There is no uselessness outside, and there is no thought inside." "Governing heaven and earth, such as the sun and the moon, arguing about the stars, being in harmony with yin and yang, is divided into four seasons, and it has been an appointment with the Tao since ancient times." The four health preserving methods of "real person", "wise man", "sage" and "sage" in ancient and middle ages can all reach the realm of self-cultivation, and their ideological theory basically comes from Taoism, similarly. It is consistent with the health care ideas of "dust", "attaching importance to qi and softening", "simplicity, less selfishness and desire, no worries about learning" and "after all, quietness is waiting for life". Su Wen's theory of "Four Qi Regulating Spirit" states that health preservation should be synchronized with the harvest in spring, summer, autumn and winter storage, so as to "nourish yang in spring and summer, and nourish yin in autumn and winter, so as to follow its roots and rise and fall with everything at the door of growth", thus achieving the ideal state of "Heaven and earth coexist with me, and everything is one with me" advocated by Zhuangzi. "Su Wen Yin and Yang should be alike" says that "Yin and Yang are the way of heaven and earth, the discipline of all things, the parents of change, the source of life and death, and the home of all gods". In essence, Yin and Yang are the Tao of heaven and earth, the master of all things, the source of change and the place of Tao. The person who says "Tao" is a concrete exposition of "Tao can be Tao, but extraordinary" in Laozi. They all realize that "Tao" is the source of heaven and earth, the door of all things, and it has no qualitative stipulation and mysterious spiritual entity, so it is called "the home of the gods". Everything must follow this law, so it is also called "the rule of everything".
The above three foundation works, like "three creations", make Huangdi Neijing a masterpiece with rich contents, from scratch and from scratch. It consists of Su Wen and Ling Shu, which are divided into two parts. Each book has nine volumes, 18 volumes and 81 articles. Twenty-nine articles, such as Laozi, are divided into Tao Jing and the Classic of Virtue, and the number of ninety-nine articles coincides with the eighty-one chapter of Laozi. It is said that the avenue is unintentional and wonderful. It can be seen that Huangdi Neijing and Laozi are not only similar in content, but also similar in form, which deserves our in-depth study.
Laozi said: "The Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything. Everything is negative and holds yang, and it is harmonious. Shuowen explains "one" and says: "Only Tai Chi, Tao stands as one, and heaven and earth divide everything. "'one' represents the chaotic state before the universe split." The four sages' Changes in the Heart Source of Yin and Yang said: "Yin and Yang are not judged, and the gas is mixed. If the air contains yin and yang, it is clear and turbid. It is natural to be clear and floating, and turbid and heavy. Ascending to yang, descending to yin, yin and yang are ectopic, and the two instruments are divided. Fuxi gossip opened the sky with a sun, and Lao Tzu said, "If you get one in the past, the sky will be clear, the land will be flat, God will be alive, the valley will be full, everything will be clear, and the princes will get one, thinking that the world is right." "One" is another name for Tao. Its significance is great! First, two phases give birth to three, such as heaven and earth, yin and yang, fire and water, sun and moon, male and female, etc. , are produced by one and two phases, relative changes. Heaven and earth are in harmony, the weather is favorable, yin and yang embrace each other, everything turns into fire and water, auspicious, six qi are in harmony, the sun and the moon push each other, the universe shines, men and women are diligent, and human beings are pregnant. The so-called "Avenue is invisible, gives birth to heaven and earth, is ruthless, the sun and the moon run, the avenue is nameless, and everything grows." (Chang Jing)
Taoists often use "mixed elements", "emptiness", "chaos" and "unlucky" to represent natural phenomena in various stages of the development of the universe. The book "Yunqi Ji, Volume II, Mixed Elements, Mixed Points, Unlucky Department" explains that "Mixed Elements" is the beginning of vitality before "Chaos". The vitality runs, and then the world stands; "Empty" is a vast and beyond the underworld, where vitality is born. Life is too empty, too unchanging, and three gases are clear. Three qi chaos, born in the mysterious cave, standing in the cave and standing in nothing, born in nothing, standing in empty, empty and nothing, empty and nothing. Upper qi is the beginning, middle qi is the element, and lower qi is the metaphysics. Xu Anqi was born in Qi, and his vitality came from the point, and his vitality came from Yuan. Therefore, there is a saying: health two, health two, health three, three into nine, the true qi is bright all day, I condense into the ground, and the middle qi is reconciled with adults. Three points, eternal life, sun and moon, five nights.
Su Wen On the Differentiation of Yin and Yang said: "Yin and Yang Can are counted by three, pushed by one hundred, pushed by one thousand and pushed by ten thousand. Ten thousand is too big to count, but we need one. Yin and Yang have one to three changes, from three to ten thousand, from ten thousand to countless, which constitute everything in the universe, from finite to infinite, from infinite to finite. In this way, doctors and Taoists look up at the universe in a cyclical way and overlook the prosperity of the category, which can be described as empty and full of fun.