元亨利贞——中国哲学元理之一

Yuan Heng Li Zhen——One of the Principles of Chinese Philosophy

中国哲学经典《周易》提出元亨利贞,是中国哲学回答天地万物资始资生的基本思维方式,是回应天地万物从哪里来的基本话题。任何事物都在时空的人文语境中演化,离了一定的时空,就离了生物之道。和实生物,聚散气化。从思维视阈观天地万物生死、荣枯的运动变化,它们表现为凝聚性与离散性。人生为气聚,人死为气散。聚散体现为多种形式:聚极而散,聚散有气,聚散为理等。本体不因运动变化而损益,但聚与散作为两种运动形式,聚而显、生、荣、形,散而微、死、槁、神。差分而对待,对待而互相转化。天地万物资始资生以后,天地万物以及人之间的关系的基本方式是什么?这就与水金木火土五行的相生相克相对相关。五行的多样性、差异性在杂合形式的过程中,产生相生相胜的融突话题。五行与阴阳相融合、杂合,便将天地万物以及人生各种现象从纵向和横向两个向度上统摄在五行之中,并对中国传统政治、经济、文化、思想、哲学、历史、艺术、宗教、地理、堪舆、星相等都产生了重大的影响。

The theory of"Yuan Heng Li Zhen",which is put forward by a classic of Chinese philosophy the Book of Changes,is a basic mode of thinking of Chinese philosophy to answer the question of the origin of all materials in the world and also is a response to the fundamental question of where the universe comes from.Everything evolves in the humanistic context of time and space,and leaving a certain space and time is equal to leaving the way of production.Everything comes out of He,and all changes in things are the gathering and dispersing of Chi.From the point of view of Chi,the changes of everything,whether life and death or wither and glory,are the gathering and dispersing of Chi.Life is a gathering of Chi,and death is a dispersing of Chi.It is reflected in a variety of forms:the extreme becomes the inverse;gathering and dispersing are both Chi;there are certain rules of gathering and dispersing of Chi.The ontology does not gain or lose due to the change of Chi,but the two modes of motion,gathering(appearing,life,glory,body)and dis persing(disappearing,death,wither,spirit)are opposed to each other and are transformed into each other.What is the basic way of the relationship between the universe and the human beings after the creation of the universe?This is related to the five elements water,metal,wood,fire and earth.In the process of hybrid form,the diversity and difference of the five elements will produce the topic of harmony.In the integration of the five elements with Yin and Yang,all the phenomena of heaven and earth and life are captured verti cally and horizontally in the five elements,and exert a great influence on the traditional Chinese politics,economy,culture,thought,philosophy,history,art,religion,geography,geomancy,astrology and so on.