Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip, which plays everything.

This sentence is not from the Book of Changes or the Book of Changes, but from the Book of Changes, which was interpreted by later generations (said to be Confucius).

Taiji: the original way;

Two instruments: yin and yang;

Four images: sun, lunar, shaoyang and shaoyin;

Eight trigrams: Gan, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Hui.

These four sentences are actually a mathematical model of "2 to the nth power".

2 to the power of 0 = 1- tai chi;

65438+2 to the power of 0 = 2- two instruments;

Quadratic of 2 = 4- 4 images;

The third power of 2 = 8- gossip;

Even infinite. ...

As for Sancai, Wuxing, Liuhe, Qixing, Jiugong and Shifang, they are other concepts:

Three talents: heaven and earth people;

Five elements: wood, fire, water and earth;

Liuhe: East, West, North and South;

Seven stars: sun, moon, gold, wood, water, fire, earth or the Big Dipper;

Jiugong: Jiugong grid, that is, a 3X3 square is filled with nine numbers, and their sum is15;

Ten directions: east, west, north, south+southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest+up and down.