Chapter 2 The second hard and soft

[Translation] After identifying the divine bones, one should further discern hardness and softness.Hardness and softness are the principles of the five elements. Taoism calls them "innate seeds". Supplement it if it is insufficient, and eliminate it if it is surplus, so that it can be balanced with hardness and softness. The five elements are in harmony. Information that can be easily found in . [translation] The five elements have a relationship of mutual generation, restraint and hatred. This relationship is called "combination", and "combination" can be divided into smooth combination and reverse combination. For example, wood produces fire, water produces wood, metal produces water, earth produces metal, and fire produces earth. This generation after another is Shunhe.In the phase of Shunhe, you will often get rich, but you will not get expensive. Even if you get expensive occasionally, it will always be ups and downs, ups and downs, and it is difficult to maintain it forever.Gold hates fire, and sometimes fire and gold complement each other, just like the principle that gold cannot be refined without fire, and by analogy, the relationship between water and soil is the same, this is the reverse combination, this kind of reverse combination Very noble.However, in the above-mentioned reversible phases, if a person with a golden shape has a fire shape, he is very noble. On the contrary, if a fire person has a golden shape, he will die at the age of 30; A water-shaped person with an earth-shaped appearance will be very noble. On the contrary, if an earth-shaped person has a water-shaped appearance, he will be lonely and lonely for a lifetime; if a wood-shaped person has a golden appearance, he will be very noble. will be very noble, on the contrary, if it is gold

If a person in shape has the appearance of wood, then there will be disasters of swords and murder.As for the other far-fetched statements, they are all mixed models and cannot be included in the orthodox theories of literati. [translation] The five elements mentioned above are the external manifestations of man's masculinity and femininity, which is the so-called "external rigidity and softness".In addition to external rigidity and softness, there is also internal rigidity and softness.Inner hardness and softness refer to people's feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, joy, excitement or calm, and sometimes deep and sometimes shallow scheming or city government.When encountering pleasing things, he is overjoyed, but when encountering irritating things, he becomes furious, and forgets about them as soon as the matter is over. This kind of person is too masculine, and his temperament is close to "rude".When calm, there is no air of publicity, and when excited, he can't be high-spirited. This kind of person is too feminine, and his temperament is close to "stupid".When encountering something, thinking about it at the first day of junior high school seems to be superficial, but when I change my mind, I think very deeply and finely.This kind of person has both masculinity and femininity, and his temperament is close to "treacherous".Those who belong to the traitor of the inner hidden are soft on the outside and strong on the inside, able to advance and retreat when encountering difficulties, able to bend and stretch, and will surely have some achievements and reputations in the future.People who are both rude and stupid can control their hearts with both hardness and softness, making them happy with their fate, so their life expectancy is often longer than ordinary people.A pure treacherous person—that is, a treacherous and treacherous person, whose heart can in turn dominate hardness and softness, can often retreat into advance when encountering problems, and meet adversity with the smooth, and this kind of person will eventually achieve success in his career.The kind of person who behaves rudely on the outside and has a rough temperament on the inside is just blindly stubborn, and does not necessarily have to give up halfway when doing things. --The above point, that is, "inner rigidity and softness", is often overlooked, and most people have this problem in all likelihood