Yue Guanchao looked at the translated text and shook his head.
Song Siyuan retorted: "That's not true. You can't become fat by eating in one go. If we didn't interpret these ancient texts, we wouldn't know that these proverbs were clues left by the Guifang people. At least we now know that the stone statues were left by the Guifang people." People have been transformed and become some special institutions."
Right now, this stone statue does give the answer to some of the questions that are plaguing everyone's minds.
They had previously speculated that these strange phenomena were caused by the strange environment created by the Onifa people after they arrived. At that time, they just suffered from the lack of evidence and could only stay at the stage of speculation. The eyeballs of the stone statues and the ancient writings of the Onifa people made the Onifa people The reality of transforming the Shennongjia environment is certain and there is almost no doubt.
That is to say, the ten monsters of Shen Nong were indeed strange environments created by the people of Guifang. At the same time, they also wrote these environments into the eyeballs of the stone statues. After that, these ancient texts of Guifang went through a long historical process and were gradually sung by the local people. , the rumor has been preserved as proverbs and sayings, proving that ghosts do exist.
This also means that as long as you can figure out the secrets hidden by these ten monsters, you can master the method of entering the ghost world.
Xu Xiake shrugged and said: "But we have known these things for a long time. We couldn't understand the strangeness before, and we are still helpless now?"
The Taoist Institute is really good. Proverbs and common sayings have been passed down orally by the local people and have been passed down for thousands of years. I don’t know how many versions have changed. Even the original rhythm has been changed a lot. It is very difficult to get information from it. .
In other words, the ghost world they were looking for was now at a deadlock.
"Check the other eyeball. Maybe there is something in the other eyeball."
Song Siyuan switched to the other eyeball, turned on the flashlight to observe carefully, and her eyes lit up: "Just now, I looked at both eyes. There was no text in this eye. Now there are slender eyes, which form horizontal lines of different lengths." The lines are arranged horizontally and vertically, with absolutely no rules to follow.”
"Long and short dashes?"
Xu Xiake's eyes lit up. He walked into the position of the eyeballs and stared at the patterns on the eye cores. These eyes were the size of a grain of rice at their largest, and were slender and close to the eyes of a phoenix. They were all arranged in horizontal rows, pieced together into the most basic long and short horizontal shapes. , at the same time, these long and short horizontal lines are either in a single row or in parallel rows, forming irregular arrays.
He carefully observed these eye-shaped patterns and confirmed that they were what he thought. He explained to her: "I roughly understand that these are the Bagua symbols composed of eyes."
Then, the Taoist priest picked up Song Siyuan's notebook and drew the most basic components of these patterns on the paper. The slender eyes were aligned horizontally to form a long horizontal line. Two eyes were subtracted from the middle of the long horizontal line to make the empty space. Among them, the long and horizontal lines are in a single line, and the short and horizontal lines are usually in parallel lines. The two form the basic unit, and the order is constantly changed to form an array of horizontal and vertical lines. It seems to be more difficult to understand than the ghost script.
"Isn't this what the Bagua is like?"
Song Siyuan has not been exposed to hexagrams in the past six months. She has never seen such strange hexagrams. They look like Morse code and are completely unreadable.
Xu Xiake waved his hands and retorted: "What you understand is called the Bagua Pan. It is made according to the principles of the Bagua. The purpose is to let you understand what the hexagrams are. It does not mean anything. My master said that Tao is one, and one life is Two, two gives rise to three, three gives rise to all things, and all things can be explained by the Bagua. Among all things, the simplest is the Bagua disk, and the most difficult thing is precisely this thing that does not look like the Bagua."
"As large as elephants and stars, dormitory gardens, mausoleums and tombs, mountains and rivers, to spider webs and ant nests, animal nests and bird's nests, and eating utensils, there is basically no trace of the Bagua without a doorway, but if there is a doorway, you can tear through the layers of fog. , see clearly the pure Tao contained behind all the myriad phenomena."
"Look!"
He picked up the drawn long and short horizontal lines and showed them to everyone: "In Bagua thinking, one long horizontal line is yang, and two short horizontal lines are yin. Then, the Qian hexagram representing extreme yang is three long horizontal lines, and the Kun hexagram representing extreme yin , are three lines of short and horizontal lines. These changes in length, short and horizontal gradually derive the eight hexagrams of Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Dui."
"Then, Taoist Xu, do you understand these things?" Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes.
Xu Xiake patted his chest: "I think I can understand it, but I have to copy down all the totems and study them slowly. I won't be able to know what they are for a while."
Now that the Taoist priest could understand it, everyone felt reassured. Gui Fangzong asked the craftsmen to copy all the patterns and return them to the ground.
As a traveling layman, Xu Xiake had been taught by Master Chongxu. It was not difficult to unravel the gossip. It only took half an hour to get a clue.
He picked up the copied patterns and said: "Among these hexagrams, there are many false hexagrams, which mean hexagrams that have no meaning at all. After removing these false hexagrams, I have probably found out what the hexagrams are about. That’s what we meant.”
Xu Xiake showed the hexagrams he had drawn. At the same time, he also copied these proverbs, matched them with the real hexagrams he found, and showed them to everyone:
There is no trace of getting lost in the mountains, encountering savages in the wild ridges and deep gorges, the sun rises and the moon rises, the tides rise, the caves are covered with glaciers in midsummer, strange livestock walk in circles, arrow bamboos build ownerless dens, there is light in the cold and warm caves, ghost markets and mountain mirages Charming eyes, the stone house raises amazing chickens, and the ghosts chirp endlessly in the pillar forest.
Yue Guanchao carefully stared at the contrasting totems of hexagrams and proverbs, and asked curiously: "How do you know that the first two sentences are empty hexagrams?"
Xu Xiake explained: "Then this needs to be explained carefully. This Bagua corresponds to the eight natural elements of earth, fire, thunder, wind, water, and mountains. At the same time, it also corresponds to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. If you get lost in the mountains, there will be no trace. The wild mountains are deep. Encountering savages in the gorge, entering mountains, and wild ridges all describe the natural elements of mountains, as well as the five elements of earth. Two consecutive hexagrams are the same, and Ming is an empty hexagram, which means to remind the interpreter to look for clues after these two sentences. "
He paused and his face became serious: "The remaining proverbs are exactly eight sentences, which correspond to eight different natural elements. For example, the sentence "The sun rises and the moon declines and the tide rises. The sun and the moon are in the middle, which is the manifestation of the elephant. The sun and the moon are Changes cause the tides to rise and fall, and the changes in the images cause the tides to change. The subject of this proverb is the sun and the moon. In fact, in the Bagua, the Qian Gua corresponds to the images..."
As for other common sayings, you can still find correspondences in the Bagua and the Eight Natural Elements!
The caves are covered with glaciers in midsummer, and the twenty-four solar terms can be equally divided into the Bagua. Each hexagram has a corresponding solar term. The Li Gua corresponds to the Summer Solstice, Summer, Great Heat, Beginning of Autumn, Chushu, and Bailu. Li Gua actually represents Summer, the midsummer in this sentence refers to the great heat, which corresponds to the fire sign of Li Gua.
Weird livestock are walking on the ground. All things have their basic rhythm of movement. Livestock are running on the ground, looking for food and hunting, and birds are flying above and soaring. This sentence means strange beasts running on the ground, which corresponds to the Kun hexagram. Geography.
Arrow bamboo builds an ownerless nest. Bamboo is a herb, and the herb is wood. Among metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, the hexagrams corresponding to wood are Zhen and Xun. In the Zhen and Xun hexagrams, the Zhen hexagram is often related to thunder.
According to the elimination method, the Zhen hexagram can be eliminated. Then, the remaining hexagram is the Xun hexagram. This hexagram corresponds to the wind sign. The wind sign and bamboo seem to have nothing to do with each other, but in fact they are closely related. Bamboo accumulates thickly and takes root in the soil for several months. Within a month after it emerges, it will grow in the wind and sprout leaves like crazy. If the bamboo grows faster, it must be related to the growth in the wind. This common saying corresponds to the wind phenomenon of the Xun Gua.
Jingwei is bright in the cold and warm cave, cold and warm, Jingwei, these are all words to describe water. The word "Jingwei" indicates that it is related to the river. The descriptions of "Lengnuan" and "Jingwei" appear at the same time. This is already a double emphasis. It can be determined. This proverb corresponds to the water image of Kan Gua.
The ghost city mountain mirage is fascinating to the eyes. Mountain mirage refers to mirage, which is a word with strong oceanic attributes. In ancient times, the ocean was equal to Daze, and Yunmengze was actually Yunmenghai. Then, Ze was the sea, and fog formed on the sea. The illusion of stacking up corresponds to the Zexiang of Dui Gua.
The stone house raises a god-headed chicken, and the stone belongs to the earth. This is an obvious hint. This sentence represents the image of Ken Gua Mountain.
The ghost whispers in the pillar forest are endless. At that time, after Tan Yanqiu and the others dug into the ghost whisper forest, they could see that the stones were mixed with pillar gold stones. This is the pillar gold stone. The meaning of the whole sentence is that the ghost whispers in the gold stones will never stop. In this Among the eight proverbs, the only one that truly represents sound is Zhen Gua. This proverb must correspond to the Thunder Elephant of Zhen Gua.
Xu Xiake was so eloquent and confused that he explained his understanding of the hexagrams to everyone. Yue Guanchao pondered his words carefully and found that this was really the solution.
Song Siyuan then took out a map of Shennongjia, circled the specific locations where the ten monsters occurred, and matched the hexagrams solved by Xu Xiake one by one. These strange landforms indeed corresponded to these different hexagrams and were distributed in the mountains behind Shennong Peak. Although The formed graphics are not regular. When the eight locations are connected into line segments, it can still be seen that it is a strange Bagua disk.
Even though the facts were right in front of him, Yue Guanchao still had some doubts in his mind: "In that era, how difficult was it for Guifang people to master the usage of Bagua?"
Song Siyuan explained: "Bagua has already been produced in the Fuxi era. Both Guizang Yi and Lianshan Yi were produced in an earlier era. The Zhou Yi is the last version of the Book of Changes. Since the Guifang people have eyes, they may have had brief contact with that book." In the mirror world, the Bagua is used to distort the space, just enough to form a huge maze to protect them."
