Chapter 6 Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang Yin and Yang are two opposites that arise simultaneously.If a distinction must be added, it should be Yin first and Yang second.Let's talk about men and women. The opposite sex seems to be two opposites, and they coexist at the same time.But according to the big example of biological evolution, before there is no difference between male and female, that is, in terms of single-celled low-level organisms, his reproductive function has already been possessed.Fertility is a characteristic of females. It can be seen that creatures should first have females and gradually evolve, and then males should be separated from females.Women belong to yin and men belong to yang, so it is said that yin comes first and then yang.

In other words, life evolved from inanimate matter. Matter belongs to yin, while life belongs to yang.If we talk about death and life, there should be death first, and then life.Death is not only the disappearance of life, but also the incompleteness of life.Life comes out of death, and returns to death. If so, it is still yin first and yang second. Lao Zhuang said that all things in the world are born from existence, existence comes from non-existence, and returns to non-existence.Life comes from matter and returns to matter.Culture comes from nature and returns to nature.That's all.If we use the Chinese concept of yin and yang, we should say that cloud and yang originate from yin and return to yin.The sequence of yin and yang is not just a matter of succession, but the existence of yang attached to yin.Before there is no yang, there can be yin, and after there is no yang, there can still be yin, but if there is no yin, there can never be any more yang.Yin and Yang are represented by the two hexagrams Qian Kun.Good morality is healthy, and Kunde is smooth.Health means movement, and smoothness does not mean static. In fact, smoothness is still movement, but health is active, and smoothness is follow-up.Why don't we say that the cloud moves with the passive, because the passive is that the object A is pushed by the second object, and the follow-up is that the object A follows the object B and is automatic.Active and follow-up are the same as automatic, but there is a difference between the first and the last.As for passiveness, it is not automatic, it is just that he moves.When we talk about the natural world today, it seems that there should be only smooth movement, and there should be no initiative.Or it can be said that there is only automaticity, and there is no other movement that dominates this movement or produces it.A follows B, B follows C, C follows D, D follows E, and so on to infinity and infinity, intertwined and mutually pushed, unable to find a starting point, unable to find a mastermind, everything follows, everything is infinite Self.In other words, it is all nature.If you want to find a clue in the natural world and point out a common point, it is the creation of the world by the god of religion.Otherwise, nature is just nature, follow-up is just follow-up, one by one, layer by layer, without a head, without a brain, this is called infinite.Infinity means that there is no beginning before and no end after, and no one advocates anyone else. If this is the case, everything that follows the movement is equivalent to no movement, so it is also called static.Chinese Taoists have identified this point, so the sixty-four hexagrams begin with Guizang.All things originate from Kun and return to Kun. Returning to Tibet is the ultimate and most primitive at the same time.But if you take the Kun hexagram as the original hexagram, you will remind people that all actions have a first beginning. If there is a first beginning, then this beginning is by no means a follow-up but an active one.Then I would like to ask who is the main mover.In human knowledge, it is really impossible to find the initiative of nature, only to see that all actions are follow-up, so Taoism does not call the hexagram Kun as the original, but calls it Guizang.Guizang is not eliminated or finished.Some people think that the performance of life from the material world, human beings from the life world, and culture from human beings seem to be unfolded step by step without end. In fact, all performances must return to nature in the end, and there will be no progress.Taoism explicates this meaning freely, hence the name Kun hexagram is Gui Zang, and it is designated as the first hexagram of the sixty-four hexagrams.Confucianism does not advocate nature but respects humanities. As far as people speak people, human beings are developed from the natural life world and the animal world, and human beings develop profound culture.The main difference between humanities and nature is that it has an initiative, from the performance of nature to humanism, that is, the initiative comes from the development and performance of follow-up.Let’s take the example of male and female again. Before single-celled organisms were male and female, the biological world could only be endless.This kind of life will is endless, and it will move forward forever. In fact, it has a little initiative spirit, and has invaded the scope of the natural world.It should be said that this active spirit has been produced for a long time from the scope of the natural world.But the kind of initiative spirit that is endless and forever moving forward is not clear and vigorous after all, or it means more follow-up and less initiative.In other words, it still does not take off the natural posture.Since males have been separated from females, and males have been separated from females, the difference in active follow-up has become more obvious.The masculinity represents the initiative.Femininity represents compliance.Therefore, the active form of the will to live is more distinct and stronger due to the masculinity.This is a great evolution in the life world.We might as well say that the natural world is characterized by smooth movement, and the humanistic world is characterized by initiative. The great example of humanistic evolution is striving for initiative.Confucianism discusses people based on people, so it takes the Qian hexagram as the first hexagram.As far as nature is concerned, it is Yin that precedes Yang.As far as the humanistic world is concerned, yang should be prior to yin, and strive to take the initiative to control all the movements in nature.But the humanities take the initiative, and this is also performed from the natural movement, and it has its own limit, and its final destination must still return to nature.This level of Confucianism knows it well, so the six lines of the Qian Gua, the first line of the Qianlong should not be used, the upper line of the dragon has regrets, and it is said that the dragons have no leader, auspicious.On the avenue of creating culture, we must still not be far away from the laws of nature.Ruo Xunzi's so-called Tiantianism is not the spirit of Confucianism.

Yin and Yang also represent the gentlemen and villains in the world.According to the above theory, the gentleman is produced from the villain, he still exists attached to the villain, and must return to the villain in the end.Just like culture is produced from nature, culture still needs to be attached to nature and return to nature.Therefore, the villain can always oppose the gentleman with his will, but the gentleman always leads the villain with his heart and never opposes the villain.A villain can deliberately harm a gentleman, but a gentleman always cares for a villain and never harms a villain.Gentlemen are produced from among the villains. To put it simply, it is like blossoming on a tree. The tree can be without flowers, but the flowers cannot be without trees.Nature can live without culture, but culture cannot live without nature.Likewise, nature can destroy culture, but culture cannot destroy nature.But humanists still think that culture is the most important thing, and the gentleman is the most precious.