"Spring and Autumn Annals" mainly talks about how to govern the country and protect the people.
Many people are curious about how the names of the two seasons can be used as topics. If it can be called Chunqiu, why can't it be called Xia Dong? So it is normal for the questioner to have this question.
Friends who like literature will find that the east wind must describe spring, the south wind must describe summer, the west wind must describe autumn and the north wind must describe winter in ancient poems.
For example, why is it called shopping, not buying North and South?
There is only one answer, and that is related to the ancient people's positioning and understanding of heaven and earth.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, which was observed by the ancients. On this basis, they started the creation of China culture.
The sun rises in the east, which naturally symbolizes hope. A day's plan lies in the morning, and there is also a saying that a year's plan lies in spring. This is a hopeful moment. Therefore, the East is easily associated with new life, vitality and vigor.
Of the four seasons, spring is the most suitable.
Spring is naturally arranged by the ancient people in the East to represent life, but what is autumn?
When the sun goes down, it is a contraction. This is definitely not hope but chill. It is in the west.
Autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves, which is a desolation, much like the sunset in the west. In ancient times, autumn was placed in the west. Since spring represents life, autumn is naturally related to death.
The south represents summer, which is equivalent to the sun at noon. The biggest feeling is heat. Similarly, the north represents winter, and the biggest feeling is cold, just like midnight.
Seeing this, I believe my friends are no longer confused about the statements in ancient poetry.
Why did you go shopping again? Because everyone went to the market when the sun rose in the east, the ancients had no time and clocks, so they could only watch the sun. The sun was just at noon when they arrived. The sun goes down, everyone goes home, and the deal is over.
Therefore, in the final analysis, China culture is directly related to the law of the operation of heaven and earth.
After this concept is established, it is logically clear to look at the following contents.
There is a saying in Tao Te Ching: A gentleman's residence is expensive on the left, and fighting is expensive on the right.
Many people find it strange. Why is the left side expensive and the right side expensive?
The house facing south is the best, and the emperor sits in the position facing south. Where is his right-hand man at this moment?
His left hand is in the east and his right hand is in the west. As I said just now, the east is spring, which belongs to wood and represents life. It's autumn in the west, and gold means cold. There should be no need to explain why "the gentleman's house is expensive on the left and the fight is expensive on the right". If you look through the history books, you will find that there are only questions after autumn and no questions after spring.
In the eyes of the ancients, spring is the time when everything recovers, not the season of killing.
There is another saying in the Tao Te Ching: Good things are left and bad things are right. This is actually an extension of orientation. Luck is born naturally, and evil is naturally related to death.
So Spring and Autumn Annals is about life and death, that is, this book is about how to make people live and work in peace and contentment. This is spring. Autumn naturally needs punishment to govern the world and force to protect the country.
In other words, both hands should be grasped and both hands should be hard.
So the title of the book can tell what the author is going to write.
When we only pay attention to people's livelihood and don't pay attention to protection, we are vulnerable to foreign invasion. We are just a powerful force but don't care about the people, so people naturally have opinions. This is the profound meaning of Spring and Autumn Annals, and it also conforms to the way of Yin and Yang.
For Xia Dong, Xia Dong means neither birth nor death, one means reaching the highest point, and the other means the beginning of the second round and the end of the first round. This has nothing to do with governing the country.
By the way, I'll say one more thing on this point. There is also a saying in the Tao Te Ching: He who holds a left deed is a saint and does not blame others.
Many people have questions, why do saints go left instead of right? Others will ask what is left deeds.
After reading the above, I believe you have a clear understanding of Zuo Qi. Zuo Qi means to give people life. If you're right, it's killing. Regarding these root cultures, I talked about the core logic of traditional culture in Why the left hand is beyond the right hand from the boxing ceremony and the bow ceremony. There are detailed instructions.
As a lover of traditional culture, it will be clearer to understand the core logic of our culture before going to see it, otherwise it will be easy to find it difficult to understand, or to explain it by yourself according to the modern literal meaning there, which will easily lead to difficulties in understanding, or the understanding is far from perfect.
So when you like traditional culture, the longer you stay, you will naturally find Hetu and Luoshu to study, because these are the starting points and roots of China culture.