In The Analects of Confucius, Zi Han, Confucius sighed: "I have lost my husband. Until the arrival of the phoenix and birds, the river could not produce a picture!" What is said here seems to be an auspicious sign, just like the sign of "Qishan in Feng Ming". It is said that the phoenix bird sings in Qishan, which shows that the virtue has been affirmed by the phoenix bird, which is a good sign for a large-scale weekly room. Phoenix is an auspicious bird, the male is called phoenix and the female is called phoenix. The "river doesn't draw pictures" here should be a similar kind of politics, perhaps related to turtles.
Another auspicious feeling is mentioned in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: "Every emperor will start a business, and God will see the people first." ..... In the reign, God first saw the fire, and Hong Niao held the Dan book in the Zhou society. "River map and Dan Shu are two irrelevant things, one is about to leave the river, and the other is held by Hong Niao.
In Huai Nan Zi, these two things are juxtaposed: "The ancients had virtue, Jia took care of their affairs, enjoyed their agriculture, and the doctors did their things and cultivated their ways;" At this moment ... Rodin's book, the river makes a green picture ". Luo is to the river, Dan is to the green, and books are to the painting, which is a wonderful coincidence.
Later, obviously disturbed by this general information, Sima Qian changed the Analects of Confucius in Historical Records: "If the river does not draw a picture, the book will not be published." I am a husband! " Since then, Hetu and Luoshu have been inextricably linked. Even so, the meaning expressed in the Book of Tuhe here is still auspicious, symbolizing some recognition of political rule. What pictures and books are there, and what are their functions? Or it was used by ancient sages, but it has not been systematically arranged.
In the Book of Changes, Hetu and Luoshu began to become attached to saints: "Hetu goes out, Luoshu goes out, and saints go." Who is this saint? They introduced the legendary Fuxi, and when drawing hexagrams, they took it as an image in the river map and Luo Shu. Although the Han people don't know what a book is, their status is increasingly respected. What is the achievement of "one painting opens the sky"? Comparable to the legendary contribution of Pangu. The former is to open the wisdom of all peoples, and the latter is to open a new chapter in heaven and earth. It has been the first great cause since ancient times. Pangu ended the chaos of the ancient world, and Fuxi ended the chaos of ancient ancestors' thoughts.
However, the work of sorting out history is not over yet. "Li Weihan Wen Jia" said: "Fuxi, virtue and gas are in harmony, the sky is based on birds and beasts, and the land is based on river maps and Luo Shu." See the quotation in the Book of Changes, Justice and Narration. Fuxi got the book "Hutuluo", which seems to be very credible once it has been proved by a latitude, but there seems to be something missing without the proof of historical books.
Therefore, Records of Five Elements in Hanshu contains: "Liu Xin thought that Mi (Fuxi) was the queen of heaven, painted by a river map, and the gossip was true. Yu ruled the flood and gave him the law of Luo Shu, Hong Fan also. " Therefore, He Tu and Luo Shu have a specific academic orientation. The difference between them is that he gave Luo Shu to Dayu. The river map compiled by Liu Xin belongs to Yi-ology and is the origin of Eight Diagrams. Luo Shu belongs to the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, which is the origin of the Five Elements. So I was happy to admit it. Anyway, there was nothing to check at that time.
In Han Dynasty, divination prevailed, followed by weft fire, and there were 37 kinds of weft books about river maps, such as river maps including land images and initial maps of river maps. There are nine kinds of weft books about Luo Shu, such as Luo Shu Zhen Du Yao, Ling Zhun Ting Luo Shu, Lao Zi and Confucius, all of which account for a quarter of all weft books.
With the popularity of divination, it seems less important to sacrifice to Mount Tai. Every new son of heaven, or person who will become a son of heaven, will go to Luohe Yellow River to hold a book collection ceremony, which is a specific ceremony ordered by God. After a series of sacrificial ceremonies, the son of heaven will bring back a small box containing the legendary "River Map" and "Luoshu". In the eastern Han people's concept, these two books have characters, not wordless gobbledygook, and there are many characters. Zhang Chun carved a stone on Mount Tai and quoted it from the Book of Continued Han Dynasty: ... The emperor was only cautious about the words of the river map and Luo Shu. "
Summary: According to the early historical data, "Luo Shu" was misinformed by "Dan Shu", and the river map was originally a treasure and an auspicious sign. In the long river of history, it has been gradually endowed with new value, and its status has been significantly improved with the continuous injection of rich content. In Wang Mang's new dynasty, the river map became the source of gossip, and Luo Shu became the source of Hong Fan's nine realms. Although several historical materials were contradictory, they were not discussed at that time. In the following seven or eight hundred years, people's understanding of this river and Luohe generally followed the cornerstone of this period. It was not until the invention of Heluo in Song Dynasty that scholars paid attention to it and discussed it again. Due to space reasons, we will discuss it in chapters.
Distinguishing schools of ancient history: What is the significance of "doubting the ancient"?
School of distinguishing ancient history: What is the purpose of "doubting the ancient"?
The Ancient People's Questioning and Discrimination of Hetu and Luoshu