What is the relationship between heaven, earth and man in ancient times?

As a religion, Taoism must have its beliefs, and its beliefs are the beliefs in gods, ghosts, and humans in the real world. Among the three, God and the gods are worshipped, which is the reason for cultivating and accumulating goodness and attaining the "Tao" to become immortals; In a person's life, not wasting his time, and striving to cultivate the "Tao" and become an immortal has become the biggest career in life; Those who do not accumulate good and lose their ways firmly believe that they will be punished and enter the path of ghosts. In fact, this is the mode of development and continuation of the traditional thought of "the unity of heaven and man" of the "three talents" of heaven, earth and man in ancient China, but on this basis, with the development and change of the folk beliefs of ancient ghost and god worship, it has been systematized, organized and established on a theoretical basis in the Taoist doctrinal system.

Its principle is based on the empty and abstract concepts of heaven, earth, and man of the "Three Talents", so that the Three Realms can establish a world of ghosts and gods such as the human world in each hierarchy. Immortals dwell in the sky, ghosts dwell in the underworld, and people live between heaven and earth.

One of the Taoist teachings, the Taiping Sutra, says: "The vitality is in a trance and nature, condensed into one, called Tianye, and divided into the earth, called Erye; Because of the heavens and the earth, yin and yang are combined, and the name is Sanye. This is what Lao Tzu said:

Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, three to all things, all things are negative yin and embrace yang, and the impulse is harmonious ("Lao Tzu, Chapter 42)" The use and play of thought.

From the introductions of the two schools, we can see that "one" is the vitality, "two" is the yin and yang, and "three" is the "three talents" of heaven, earth and man. The sky is yang, the earth is yin, and people must be the "harmony" of yin and yang between heaven and earth.

In ancient times, it was heaven and earth, and after the heaven and earth were connected, the gods were completed, and the status of the human race was established, and it was the heaven, earth and people. Heaven and earth, heaven and earth, and man refer to the system in which life is located. Life is cyclical, the earth qi rises to the sky, the weather descends to the earth, and people inherit the heaven and the earth, which is equivalent to the fish eye of the yin and yang fish.

The whole system is called Pangu, there is a great road system in the Pangu system, and there are countless heaven and earth systems in the big road system, and the heaven and earth in which we are located have been upgraded to heaven, earth and people.

The yin and yang theory of the ancients believed that all things are composed of yin and yang, and that all things have negative yin and hold yang or negative yang and hold yin, and that the solitary yang does not give birth, and the yin alone does not grow. People live between heaven and earth, and heaven, earth and man are collectively called the three talents.

The ancients called heaven, earth and man together"Sancai"。There is an expression in the "Three Character Classic" that "three talents, heaven, earth and people", which means that the three talents are geniuses, local talents and talents.