{"id":6447,"date":"2025-07-31T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:27:34","slug":"oriental-health-aesthetics-the-time-of-professor-qiu-zhengluns-explanation-of-the-book-of-changes46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Health Aesthetics: The Time of Professor Qiu Zhenglun&#8217;s Explanation of the Book of Changes(46)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video playsinline class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-6447-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/video.jlpapa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250731134544646.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/video.jlpapa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250731134544646.mp4\">https:\/\/video.jlpapa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250731134544646.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just like the Mediterranean coast, that region produced alphabetic writing systems, while we, on the contrary, preserved and passed down our pictographic script. How did this come to be? Because across the entire Earth, only the Central Plains of China possess that unique loess soil\u2014all throughout the Central Plains, it\u2019s just loess plateaus, right? Traveling through Longxi (meaning &#8220;Dragon West&#8221;), I pondered: what defines loess? Across the globe, the average soil depth over the earth&#8217;s crust is no more than three meters, yet in China&#8217;s Central Plains, the loess layer astonishingly reaches thousands of meters thick. How did this happen? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once, while visiting Dunhuang\u2014I believe some of you have been there\u2014there\u2019s the Mingsha (Singing Sand) Mountain nearby. It\u2019s fascinating: it neither grows taller nor shrinks but has maintained its shape for millions of years. A whimsical thought struck me: when God created the world and added *xirang* (self-expanding soil) to the land, perhaps a sieve leaked a little, and that became Mingsha Mountain. Isn\u2019t that magical? Tian Zhen\u2019s song &#8220;Crescent Moon Spring&#8221; is also about this place\u2014truly enchanting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This loess is concentrated in the Central Plains, radiating out from Henan as its axis. The area isn\u2019t vast\u2014it\u2019s just that piece of land. To the east were the Yi tribes, to the west the Rong, to the south the Man, and to the north the Di. These surrounding peoples were all minority ethnic groups\u2014not minorities as we understand them today, but uncivilized tribes untouched by the culture of the Central Plains. They were barbaric tribes\u2014not ethnic groups in the modern sense, but akin to animals. The eastern Yi were archers who shot birds; the southern Man were associated with insects and poison (the character for *Man* \u86ee contains the radical for &#8220;insect&#8221;); the western Rong lived alongside sheep (\u620e resembles \u7f8a, &#8220;sheep&#8221;); and the northern Di were linked to dogs or wolves (\u72c4 contains the &#8220;dog&#8221; radical \u72ad). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yao, Shun, and Yu\u2014it\u2019s hard to say if they were entirely human. And what about the image of Fuxi and N\u00fcwa? Wasn\u2019t it a depiction of them intertwined with serpent bodies? This suggests that when ancient writing, imagery, myths, and legends emerged, the Central Plains was the sole cradle of civilization. So why did pictographic script take root and persist there? Think about it: civilization doesn\u2019t arise in exceptionally favorable or harsh environments, but in moderately livable places. Take loess\u2014ideal for farming. Plowing it was simple, even achievable by human labor alone. Once settled, life there changed little. With minimal change, was there a need for complex writing? Alphabetic systems weren\u2019t necessary; thus, pictographs could endure, deeply and steadily passed down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This continuity was further solidified by Qin Shi Huang\u2019s unification of writing and the standardization of square-shaped characters under the Han dynasty. Without this process, calligraphy\u2014that uniquely Eastern art form\u2014could never have emerged. And so, we conclude this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><div class=\"floating-menu float-menu-1 notranslate\"><ul class=\"fm-bar\"><li class=\"fm-item-1-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/recommend.php\" target=\"_self\" ><div class=\"fm-icon\"><i class=\"fab fa-youtube \"><\/i><\/div><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like the Mediterranean coast, that region produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doorm.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}