Presumably, everyone has heard of these two sentences. The first sentence is said in Detective Chinatown 2. These two sentences are from the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching. Taoism is our native religion in China. In troubled times, they opened their doors to help the world. In peacetime, they practice sex behind closed doors. It can be said that the magical color of Taoism is elusive to us until now.
In addition, there are many legends about the magical eight diagrams of Taoism. For example, Zhuge Liang, who is well known in the Three Kingdoms, used Bagua Array twice, and both achieved miraculous results. So what is the magic eight diagrams array of Taoism and what kind of power is it? Let's explore its mystery together.
Taoist magic, an ancient mysterious art
Daoism is China's ancient astrology works, and it is also the first of the three treasures of Qimen, Liu Ren and Taiyi. It is the most rational method among the three types and is called the highest prediction. Its essence is an advanced astrophysics, which reveals the role of the eight planets in the solar system and the earth's magnetic field.
This is an excellent and representative work in ancient China, which plays a very important role in many fields. Taoism calls B, C and D "three rates"; Opening, breathing, birth, injury, supervision, scenery, earthquake and death are called eight doors. Its essence is an advanced astrophysics, and its basic model reflects personnel, life, social system, astronomy, geography, phenology and so on.
There is another legend in Taoist magic. As we all know, the Yellow Emperor decided to crusade against Chiyou for the sake of the world. However, every time the Yellow Emperor sent troops, he always encountered sandstorm weather, which caused great trouble to the soldiers of the Yellow Emperor, and made the troops of the Yellow Emperor retreat in the early stage of the crusade against Chiyou. Therefore, most people thought that Chiyou was interfering with the troops of the Yellow Emperor with witchcraft.
Later, it was said that the Yellow Emperor's determination to defeat Chiyou touched the gods in the sky. Nine days later, Xuan Nv came to earth to help Huangdi destroy Chiyou and brought him a treasure box. There is the book Daoism in the treasure chest, which makes the Yellow Emperor very happy. In the end, the Yellow Emperor relied on the records in this book to identify the direction in the sandstorm and finally defeated Chiyou.
Although this is only a wonderful legend, from which I can see that the role of Daoism is obvious, it is a pity that the book Daoism can not be found after the spread of history.
Zhuge Liang's clever use
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we all know that Zhuge Liang is a very powerful figure. Liu Bei's ability to develop into a tripartite confrontation between Wei and Wu through such a weak force is inseparable from Zhuge Liang's ability. Zhuge Liang has always been regarded as a myth in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Among them, there is a part in the book, that is, Zhuge Liang knows astronomy above and geography below, which can be said to be omnipotent and his understanding of gossip is extremely powerful. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang used Daoism and Eight Diagrams twice, and each time he got miraculous results. It can be said that it is a mythical figure.
For the first time, after Guan Yu was guarding Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang was worried that Wu would hold a grudge, so he set up a gossip array with stones near Jingzhou. Soon after, Wu took advantage of the opportunity of Shu to attack Jingzhou, killing Liu Bei, the second brother who was also guarding Jingzhou at that time, and Guan Yu, one of the five tigers of Shu. At that time, Liu Bei was close to rage, and the death of his second brother made Liu Bei lose his mind. Ignoring everyone's advice, he led all the elites of Shu to attack Wu.
At that time, Liu Bei heard that Lu Xun, a fledgling "child", was sent by the State of Wu. Mercenarism is self-sustaining, and Lu Xun is not taken seriously. Everyone knows what happened next. Lu Xun tricked him into setting fire to a battalion of 800 Li and beat Liu Bei to flee.
At this time, Zhuge Liang played a role in the eight diagrams array laid near Jingzhou. Not only saved the life of master Liu Bei. It will also embarrass Lu Xun. From this, we can see Zhuge Liang's ability of foresight, and we can also see that the gossip arranged by Zhuge Liang can fool Lu Xun, a famous star in the Three Kingdoms. It can be seen that the power of the Eight Diagrams Array cannot be underestimated.
Show great power for the second time
When it was put into use for the second time, it was Shu, and so was master Liu Bei. And Liu Chan is an "unaffordable sinus", so Zhuge Liang can only go out of Qishan and turn his back on Cao Wei's crusade against everyone's expectations.
What about once? Sima Yi, the general of Wei Jun at that time, was Zhuge Liang's old enemy. However, Sima Yi at that time did not believe Zhuge Liang's argument that he used his troops like gods. This can be said to be Sima Yi's extreme confidence in his ability. He doesn't believe that anyone in the world can beat him. Therefore, the precautions against Zhuge Liang were not as heavy as later, but because of this, he suffered a big loss.
Zhuge Liang had no good way to face Sima Yi's army at that time, but he suddenly thought of defeating it with Sima Yi's carelessness. So in the battle, he deliberately lost to Sima Yi. Leading him to arrive with an army, in the trap "Eight Diagrams Array" that Zhuge Liang had already arranged, Sima Yilian sent several generals in and was constantly played by the Shu army. And what is the reason for this bagua array, which can make Sima Yi, who is extremely clever, helpless?
Zhuge Liang trapped 100 thousand troops with the eight diagrams of Taoist magic, which can actually be explained by science, which has special knowledge of geography and meteorology. It is said that at that time, the Eight Diagrams ruins were low in the middle and surrounded by mountains, which made the air flow slow, so the topography of this basin made the area foggy all the year round.
It is through this that Zhuge Liang deployed many stones to form an array. Later, through scientific evidence, we can know that there is a magnetic field in some places on the earth, so Sima Yi's army can't tell the direction by pointing the south car, so it is difficult to March back and forth normally in this array. So Zhuge Liang can trap a hundred thousand troops with only one array.
From the above, we can know that Taoist magic is not so weird, but also reasonable and scientific. It was precisely because ancient science was underdeveloped at that time that many people admired the magic of Taoism. We should treat the book Daoism correctly now. After all, this is the crystallization of the wisdom of predecessors.