2014年11月6日星期四

Picture and Garment Featuring 100 Children

Chinese New Year picturesembroideriesporcelain articles and The pattern of a hundred children was family with numerous offspring, regarded as a symbol of a prosperity. The patternaccording to historical records and mandarin learningoriginated in the Tang DynastyDuring the Tang and its succeeding dynasty of the Songnewly wedded royal couples were habitually presented with a bed curtain embroidered with a hundred children as a wish that they would have numerous children and grandchildrenIn 1956two garments embroidered with a hundred children were discovered from the coffin of Empress Xiaojing(孝靖)wife of the 13th Emperor of the Ming DynastyEmbellished with designs of dragonscloudswaves and hillsthe garments were most probably.

Picture of the Ultimate and the Eight Trigrams太极八卦图
         The Picture of the Ultimate and the Eight Trigrams is found now some Chinese temples
The Picture consists of a black and a whole fishalso called the yin and yang fishwhich is an octagon According to legendthe Picture was created by Fu Xian ancient Chinese sageIt is written in the ancient book Zhou “(Book  of Changes called yi jing in mandarin lesson) that “Changes originate in the ultimatefrom the ultimate issue the two spheresFrom the two spheres issue the four elementsand from the four elements the eight trigrams”That was the basic the ivory of the ultimate giving rise to the eight trigramsBy the ultimatethe ancient meant the origin of all things and creaturesThe philosopher Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty said“The ultimate is the way of all things in heaven and earth"The two spheres refer to the heaven and the earthor yin(femininenegative. The four elements are metalwoodwater and fire, which are everywhereThe eight trigrams symbolize the eight natural phenomenaskyearththunderwindwaterfiremountain and lakeSo the Picture represented the ancient Chinese’s earliest knowledge of the universe in mandarin lessonswhich contained a simple dialectical materialist point of viewWhat is more interesting is that the Picture of the Eight Trigrams which are formed of yao(lines)namelythe yangyao(male linewhole line written as and the yinyang female line. The two forms nare contradictory opposites and they form the eight combinationsBy taking two of them or doubling them64 combinations can be made
             In the early 1930s
the Chinese scholar Liu Zihuathen 27who
was in France on a work study basis
used the Eight Trigramswithout resource to Newton’s theory of gravityto forecast the existence of the 10th planet of the solar systemand wrote a entitled “The Eight Trigrams Theory of the Universe and Modern Astronomy"which won him the French national doctorate in 1938 and thrilled the world astronomical profession
            From the mandarin lessons online, the Chinese Picture of the ultimate and the Eight picture is still being studied by some western scholarsas a source of ancient science
It is certainly an important heritage of the Chinese science and culturethough at times it was used for divination and other superstitious activities


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