How is yarrow divining with 55 sticks?

55 yarrow pick six, these six are useless, and official divination is not needed.

This is what the ancients paid attention to. 55 is the sum of the number of days and the number of points, that is, (1+3+5+7+9)+(2+4+6+8+10) = 55, which is called the "large derivative number".

Note that the above is a prelude, and the following is a formal procedure.

Step 1: Divide 49 yarrow into two piles at random, which is called "Kaitiandi".

Step 2: Pick one from a pile of yarrow and put it aside. This is called "dividing three talents". This selection of yarrow symbolizes "talent" from "genius" or "local talent"

Step 3: Count how many yarrows there are in the "genius" pile. Divide by 4, and what is the remainder? Just pick a few and put them aside. This is called "Four Battalions", which symbolizes "Four Seasons".

-What if there is no remainder after division?

-Let's just say there are four left. Pick out four yarrow trees and put them aside.

Step 4: Count how many yarrows there are in the pile of "local talents". Divide by four, and what is the remainder? Just pick a few and put them aside. The operation is exactly the same as the third step.

Step 5: combine the remainder of two piles with "talent", which is called "returning to the strange".

Step 6: After removing the remaining yarrow, collect two piles of yarrow. Look, heaven and earth meet again, hehe.

The first step to the sixth step is a whole set of procedures, and the technical term is "change".

Repeat the collected yarrow after "one change" according to step 1 to step 6, that is, open the world again, divide it into three talents, four camps, blame it, and finally collect two piles of yarrow. This is called "second change".

Then repeat the "second change" of yarrow according to step 1 to step 6, which is called "third change".

After "three changes", count how much is left in your yarrow pile. It must be one of the four numbers 24, 28, 32 and 36.

Huh? How come the result of my count is 27?

-Operation error, restart.

Then, divide the number after the "three changes" by four to get one of the four numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9.

If you get 6, 6 is negative, please draw "-"on the paper, which means "Yin" and indicate "Old Yin" next to it;

If you get 7, 7 is a positive number, please draw "-"on the paper, which means "Yang" and indicate "Shaoyang" next to it;

If 8 is negative, please draw "-"on the paper, indicating "yin" and indicate "less yin" next to it;

If you get that 9 is a positive number, please draw "-"on the paper, which means "Yang" and mark "Lao Yang" beside it.

Well, you finally got a "good". A complete hexagram is composed of six hexagrams, so you have to reassemble the forty-nine hexagrams, then "three changes" and then "three changes" ... until all six hexagrams are drawn. Note that the back must be painted on the front like a house. If the positioning is wrong, all previous efforts will be in vain.

Count how many times did you "change" to make a six-pointed star? Three six one eight. Hehe, that's how the "eighteen changes in women's universities" came about, didn't you expect it?

There are eight combinations, namely "Eight Diagrams". Six hexagrams is a big hexagram, with a total of 8864 combinations, called "sixty-four hexagrams". Sixty-four hexagrams. Which one are you?

If the six numbers are 7, 8, 9, 7, 8 and 7, that is, the "six hexagrams" are shaoyang, shaoyin, Lao Yang, shaoyang, shaoyin and shaoyang, remember:

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Whether the last three hexagrams (also called inner hexagrams) are the "departure hexagrams" in the eight diagrams, the last three hexagrams (also called outer hexagrams) or the "departure hexagrams" in the eight diagrams, they are collectively called "departure from the upper part and departure from the lower part". Baidu once found that "upper separation from lower separation" is the "separation from hexagrams" in the sixty-four hexagrams.

Ok, now you can open the Book of Changes and look for the word "Deviation from Divination".