"Lv Chunqiu Zhi Bo": "Everything will be lacking, and it will be extremely rebellious." "Pipe Cycle": "Things are extremely opposite, and life is called cycle." Song Chengyi was quoted in Song Zhuxi's Records of Recent Thoughts: "If Fuxi says it will come and go in seven days, there will be no interruption during this period. When Yang comes back to life, everything will be reversed. "
Example: Feng Ming's magnum, Cai Qing and Fiona Fang's History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, seventy-seven: "The extremes must be reversed, and the son should return quickly. Otherwise, you should keep the promise of' recovering Chu'! "
Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals is a theoretical work edited by everyone in the late Warring States Period and Qin Dynasty. It was written in 239 BC (the eighth year of Qin Shihuang). This book is based on Confucianism, Taoism, Ming, Fa, Mohism, agriculture, military, Yin and Yang thoughts, and is full of profound wisdom. Among them, there are twelve words in Zhi Bo: "Everything will be lacking, and the extremes will be reversed, and the benefits will be lost." It's just a thorough statement of a proposition, and it's an extreme encounter.
Laozi, a famous thinker of Chu State in BC and founder of Taoist school, put forward and always carried out this view. There is a saying in chapter 55 of Laozi's book "Tao Te Ching": "If things are strong, they will be old, which means they are not right."
Among them, "things are strong and old" means that things are strong and prosperous, and things are declining.
Sima Qian wrote in Records of the Historian Biography of Shu Tian: "If the husband is full, he will lose, and if things are prosperous, he will decline." It is a universal natural law to think that extremes meet.
Huai Nan Zi is a miscellaneous work, which is said to have been compiled by Liu An, king of Huai Nan, and his disciples in the early Western Han Dynasty. Among them, Xun seems to have a new formulation: "The rich rise and fall, the joy is extremely sad, and the day shifts to the moon and loses." Among them, the phrase "extreme joy begets sorrow" later developed into "extreme joy begets sorrow", and when it was combined with "extremes meet", it became a folk proverb "extreme joy begets sorrow". Although people's application has changed due to different specific contents, the basic skeleton of this proverb has not changed much.