Nature, Power, And Belief

"Yin-Yang" and "Five Elements" are profound and extensive theories in ancient Chinese society.They penetrated into the political,ideological and cultural fields in various forms from the beginning,which is the concentrated reflection of the ancient Chinese in their ideological world.As two important philosophical categories,"Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" to a certain extent supported the theoretical scale of ancient Chinese philosophy,thus exerting an important influence on the exploration of natural society,cosmic biochemistry,life value and other issues of ancient Chinese.However,due to the complexity of each link of their origin,development and evolution,it is particularly important to clarify the clues of their concrete occurrence,development and evolution in the ideological history and to interpret and interpret the significance of their existence on the premise of tracing the origin of the conceptual history of "Yin-Yang"and "Five Elements"."Yin and Yang" from "Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" from "Five Elements"are the manifestations of the two systems in the primary stage.Although they all embody the nature of things and their natural attributes,"Yin and Yang" embody the"external orientation" nature of natural phenomena,while "five elements" are the description of the "inherent" nature of things themselves.From the perspective of subjectivity genetics,different internal roots of subjectivity will inevitably lead to different outward manifestations of cognitive roots."Yin and Yang" are the"representation" and "generalization" of natural phenomena such as "celestial phenomena","terrain" and "orientation" in the ancients’living practice.Five elements exist as five kinds of natural materials at its source.They are essentially "things" and show their own existence attributes.This dual internal and external orientation is the reason why they are in a dichotomous state in the primary stage.In Zuozhuan and Guoyu,the semantics of "Yin and Yang" has changed.It no longer has the attribute of "surface" which represents natural phenomena,but has been logically transformed into the attribute of "own" of things.The transformation of the nature of Yin and Yang has gone through a process from static to dynamic.The change of the nature of "self-ownership" makes the change of "Yin-Yang and Qi" possess the dynamic factors of metamorphosis of all things.The completion of the "five elements"structure is gradually unfolding from "irrelevant" to "mixed" and then to"shengshengsheng".Among them,"miscellaneous" is the general manifestation of the formation of things.It is also the initial form of the thought of "five elements" in ancient Chinese philosophy,and the systematic "survival and victory mechanism" was completed in Dong Zhongshu.The reason why the "five elements" can form the"survival mechanism" lies in the heterogeneity of each other’s inherent attributes and the"structure" characteristics.It is the premise of validly proving the rationality of "water,fire,wood,gold and earth" as the "five elements",and also the theoretical basis for explaining the generation system of the universe.As for the confluence of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements,the essence is to clarify why they can confluence,not just the manifestation of confluence.How can we possibly need three conditions to support:first,the "ownership" of the "Yin-Yang"attribute and the "mechanization" of the "five elements" structure;second,the "five elements" of "Yin-Yang" and the "Yin-Yang" interactive structure;third,the "Yin-Yang"and "five elements" as the source of power and the universal generation mode of the universe.In this way,it can not only explain why confluence is possible,but also show the manifestation of confluence and its influence after confluence."Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" are the theoretical cornerstones of the thought of cosmogenesis in the Han Dynasty.Dong Zhongshu invoked this idea and endowed it with moral attributes of good and evil.The purpose is to put the divine dominant function of "heaven" into the natural and biochemical process of the universe and realize the "kingly way" politics he hoped for.The foundation of "kingdom" politics lies in morality and religion,which is not only the basic idea of Confucian politics,but also the life pursuit and value belief of Confucians for learning.Therefore,no matter how much Dong Zhongshu advocates the divine domination of "heaven" to restrict imperial power and rectify the emperor,or how he uses "Yin and Yang" as the concrete implementation of "kingdom" politics,the natural and biochemical meaning can not be separated from the fundamental direction of "heaven" moral transcendence.Confucian ideal of "kingdom" can fully show its significance only under the two-way circle of people’s belief in "heaven" and the protection of "heaven" to people.