The way of keeping in good health in the hexagrams of the Book of Changes is the same as what we usually call "supporting the aged" and "nourishing the spirit and nourishing the qi", both of which have the meaning of "nourishing". In fact, the main idea of "Yi" in Zhouyi is to talk about people's ways of keeping fit, and "Yi" has a lot to do with keeping fit and nourishing the heart.
Please listen carefully to the way of keeping in good health in the hexagram "Yi" in Jiangnan Art Forest. Let's have a look at the hexagrams above. Very interesting. There is a long horizontal line (Yang) at the top, a long horizontal line (Yang) at the bottom and two short horizontal lines (Yin) in the middle. Does this image look like a person's mouth and cheeks? Does it look like food in your mouth? This hexagram is related to eating.
The hexagram of Yi begins with a clear meaning, saying: Zhen Ji. Look at it and ask it.
What we can learn from this sentence is that heaven and earth are created, everything is conceived, and everything has its own way of life. As long as we observe a person's lifestyle and food-seeking style, we can distinguish between good fortune and bad fortune.
Whether a person can eat normally and eat Lazar has a great relationship with his health. This is also the case now. Many people in poor health, such as diabetes, can't eat a lot of fruits and snacks, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, big fish and big meat, gout and beer, and so on.
Therefore, whether a person can eat normally and naturally is an intuitive standard to measure whether a person is healthy or not.
Observe two cases of good and bad luck from diet. Yilin in the south of the Yangtze River cited several famous examples of observing good and bad luck from diet.
1, "Lian Po is too old to eat"
Anyone who has studied history knows that Lian Po is too old to eat. If you don't know, please review it yourself. In the case of Lian Po, the prince of Zhao thought of the famous Lian Po because he was repeatedly besieged by the State of Qin, so he sent messengers to the State of Wei to invite Lian Po. The king of Zhao sent this emissary because he was bribed. After meeting Lian Po, he went back to tell the king of Zhao that "Lian Po is old, but he can still eat, and his life is lost." The messenger means: General Lian Po is old and can still eat, but I sat with him for a while, and he took a shit three times. It is precisely because of this sentence that "one-third of a hectare is lost" that the prince of Zhao thought that Lian Po was old, so he was not appointed. As a result, Zhao was defeated and Lian Po's future was ruined. That's a real pity.
Zhuge Liang was seriously ill and ate three liters of rice.
Another example comes from the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When Zhuge Liang was seriously ill, he only ate three liters of rice every day. Sima Yi, commander-in-chief of Wei Jun, was overjoyed when he learned the news, and asserted that he was "certain to die". From this point of view, Sima Yi is really not simple.
Talking about a forest in the south of the Yangtze River, we should deeply realize that the diet we are used to every day actually contains good and evil, good and bad.
When Yilin in Jiangnan wrote this article, he had a whim. If you have the heart, you can develop and summarize a set of diet prediction methods to infer a person's health and longevity from his diet and eating and drinking Lazar. From a medical point of view, this is also entirely possible.
Now when it comes to health care, everyone knows one sentence: shut up and take your legs. In fact, control your tongue. The hexagrams in the Book of Changes were spoken thousands of years ago, so you can't refuse.
A gentleman is cautious in his words and frugal in his food. There is another sentence in the hexagrams of Zhouyi that deserves attention:
"Xiang" said: There is thunder at the foot of the mountain, hey; A gentleman is cautious in his words and frugal in his food.
A gentleman is cautious in his words and frugal in his food. The meaning of this sentence is that a gentleman is cautious in his words and self-cultivation, and his diet is frugal and strong.
Why put words and food together? The reason is very simple, because words come from the mouth and food comes from the mouth, both of which are related to the mouth. Therefore, the ancients said: disaster comes from the mouth and disease comes from the mouth. Today, Yilin in the south of the Yangtze River said that the shape of the "Yi" hexagram is like a mouth with food in it. The ancients set hexagrams, so vivid!
We often say that China has an ancient civilization of 5,000 years. Where is this civilization embodied? Reflected in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Of course, it is also reflected in the lines of the book of changes. Many things that we ordinary people use every day are not realized when we use them. In fact, they are all very original, exquisite, seemingly dull and meaningful.