With no regard to oriental and western nations a curiosity about universal origins has been a human task since the ancient times To deal with the task modern science continues to study the universe and present many outcomes In addition to macroscopic fields body science and microscopic studies for cells or configurations are in progress and human beings live in the middle of these situations. Yet curiosity about every question has begun with the situations and continued from time to time and became a philosophy. A philosophy has largely influenced the current era from a view of the beginning point of thinking and will do the same in the future. The philosophy started from a human curiosity and had a name of science in the process to be proved. Philosophical thinking is a man's natural quality and has created civilization and culture with a name of science under the accumulation of knowledge.
What was the first curiosity of human beings? It might be a natural weather having a direct impact on human beings. Under the process of understanding nature human curiosity has extended the area of thinking and under the accumulation of knowledge it has developed to philosophy. The philosophical thinking is different just as a civilization or a culture is different from another continent. Yet it began with similar methods in the similar time with regard to basic issues. Natural weather is what it had the first direct impact on human beings and in order to know this no matter which nation was a man called an unknown object as the god and analogical interpretations by many thoughts have developed religion, philosophy, civilization and culture in terms of continents or periods.
Among peculiar philosophies in the ancient Chinese dynasties which had a great impact on civilizations or cultures in the East Asia there have been growing philosophers and theories in order to address the curiosity. The traditional Chinese philosophies have directly influenced Korea and Japan among East Asian territories and the Chinese philosophies are never excluded in order to learn traditional oriental studies. A key point has to be found out in order to know the Chinese philosophies. The key point means appreciation of the Mother Nature including the universe and the earth. What is the origin of the universe named as in the process that the philosophies are developed for personalization? How is the connection between the origin of the universe and the birth of the earth described? How is the connection to human beings explained? This study introduces all the basic questions.
This study discusses the theme for composition of the universe with three steps. The first step is the origin of the universe and the second is the composition of the sky and the earth and the third is the composition of the sphere and all things. This study summarizes how a man is connected to the universe and the process to prove the connection depends upon the three steps. The whole structure of the theme for composition is the effect of the spirit and the effect works by regular campaigns. From a human view of the regular campaigns the characteristics of steps that the elements consisting of the universe depend on Yin and Yang, whereas the regular campaigns of the moon, the sun, the sphere and all things depend on the 24 divisions of the year. The universe from a human view is as big as a man is, which means a human spirit and the regular campaigns are equal to a human body. This study has a significant meaning because it underlines the philosophy for the 24 divisions of the year through 『Huainantzu(淮南子)』 in terms of the connection between the universe and human beings and the life for the standard of human body and spirit.