The sounds correspond to the xiao tian and hou tian (pre-Heaven and post-Heaven) arrangements of the bagua trigrams. It is an interesting analysis and one I had not seen before.
chenyaolong wrote:At the risk of being pedantic.... I'm curious how these sounds would differ in different dialects, or in middle-Chinese (as it says they originate from 13th century). The point of the sounds if I understand correctly is how the different sounds would create different vibrations or something similar inside the body, just like how Yoga practitioners will use Om chanting. So if the sound, say, Xu, affects the body in a certain way, it surely has to be pronounced perfectly, with lips tightened and the sound coming from the front of the mouth. Whereas a dialect like Cantonese is more from the throat, and the sound of that character would be totally different, hence, the effect would be different.
edededed wrote:You might need to carry a tuning fork around just to be sure, though!
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