What principles were initially used to determine the epigrams and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Book of Changes?

Cohesion is the origin of bamboo slips.

Note on bamboo slips, one knot and one word (one note). Give a bundle, many bundles are a string of knots, called a book, which is a series and a knot is recorded.

The epigrams in Zhouyi are all argots.

Shen Kuo notes Meng Xi: "Ancient fortune tellers all have ballads." Zhou Li: "'3 trillion, its praise is 200.'" Such as:' Feng Huang Yu Fei, and Qiang Ming Qiang. Between the two clubs, there is a public office. "I smoked once and got it. Ten years later, it still stinks. Fish peep at the tail, cross the river and the ocean. When a great country dies, it dies. "Big horizontal geng, for wang geng, Xia Qi to light" and so on. This book has died today. "(like the first place)

If it's easy, it's prophecy (lottery) Weft, too. Chastity, prophecy, also accounted for. Both are argot and riddle. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is history and Zhouyi is prophecy. Shu Wei is a fable, prophecy and prophecy.

Divination originated from notes. The ancients recognized the cycle of heaven and thought that personnel should conform to the cycle of heaven, and the success or failure of recording depends on the calendar. If something happens, we should test the calendar to see if it is good or bad. Over time, it is abstracted as "Japanese book" and "monthly calendar". It is called "Moon Order" in the Book of Rites. Zheng Xuan: "Those who call it the Moon Order commemorate the deeds of the government (chastity/integrity) in December." (The Book of Rites? Monthly order "Remarks)

Gua Ci and Yi Ci are long-term paid records of Zhou historians. Every word in a hexagram or a hexagram is not connected together, and there is no general rule in the narrative. It has been used for a long time, and it is quite broken, so the text is inevitably wrong.

There was a divination data archiving system in ancient times. Zhou Li?' Chun Guan: "Every divination, compared with its life, is a matter of money, whether it is accounted for at the end of the year. "The cohesion theory of the Book of Changes has the functions of" learning from the hidden "and" learning from the bright ". It can be seen that the ancients cherished divination-the instructions of ghosts and gods. Every divination is carefully filed by the divination officer, and the accumulated divination is sorted out at the end of each year, and its performance is counted as a reference for "inspection". This system is consistent with businessmen's attitude towards Jabu Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The longer time goes by, the more files of divination accumulate. In order to facilitate reference, people choose and sort them out, so the divination of Zhouyi is formed. This is how Zhouyi came into being. Legend has it that there were "three changes" in ancient times. In addition to the Book of Changes, there were also "back to Tibet" and "Lianshan", which may have been formed in this way. The title of "Gui Zang" clearly shows that its contents are collected tortoise shells and Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

When ancient nobles used divination, they usually left records for inspection. The records of tortoise shell oracles and bone oracles can be written directly on tortoise shell bones ("Oracle Bone Inscriptions" in Shang and Zhou Dynasties is mostly recorded in Oracle inscriptions) or on bamboo and silk. The tool of practice should be bamboo strategy, which was later simplified as yarrow, but yarrow is not suitable for writing, and the record of practice should be written on bamboo slips and silk books.

"Zhou Li? Guan Chun? "Occupy People": "All divination is a matter, and it is tied to money to match its life. At the end of the year, is it counted as the middle of the year? " Du Zichun, a Confucian scholar in the Han Dynasty, thought that "tying coins" was the result of ancient divination with silk books, while Zheng Xuan thought that "coins" were coins for worshipping gods, and recorded "killing turtles" and good and bad omen in a simple book respectively, and hid them with coins. "History? In Jin Teng, Duke Zhou prayed for King Wu, hoping to replace King Wu with his own body, and performed divination for this purpose. After divination, "the public return is the book in Tengshi." Zheng believes that the book received by Duke Zhou is the Book of Shougui (the Book of Changes). The second part is a new interpretation of the Book of Changes.

Judging from the divination tools such as "Baozi" and "Chou Xiao" recorded in the bamboo slips of TombNo. Kloc-0/in Wangshan, Hubei Province, it seems that divination is mainly carried out by divination or similar methods. Turtle divination is probably not used much, but sometimes it is repeated with "Huang Ling" after divination. Zheng Xuan notes that the Book of Rites only mentions the book of tortoise divination. Jia's Zhou Li added: "Even if it is divination, there are divination words and divinations. It goes without saying. " This is correct. The bamboo slips of tomb Wang Shan 1 mainly record the fate and the good or bad fortune of divination.

There are many divination records in these bamboo slips, but unfortunately, due to the damage of bamboo slips, these divination records are incomplete. However, through the combination of residual bamboo slips and the comparison of related bamboo slips, we can roughly see the format of Oracle inscriptions. Usually write down the date of the question first, such as "The guest asked Wang Zhi how old he was, held the corpse for a month, and returned to Japan". But not every time I ask a question, I remember the year. For example, Jane on the 2 nd and 9 th with complete initials, they don't remember the year name, but only the month and day. After the date, as usual, I remember that someone was "stunned" by some kind of divination tool. Below the word "true" is the word to remember the matters, which is the so-called life word. Take life vocabulary about diseases as an example. Usually quote the illness first, and then end with something like "Don't die yet" and "Don't blame it". After living, judging the good or bad according to the embarrassing results can be called professional words. Generally, the word "self" or "self-loyalty" is used first, and then the specific content of "self" is discussed, such as "immortality" and "no big blame". Most of the accounts also pointed out that the tomb owner still had disasters and what measures should be taken to eliminate them.

There are many words about offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods in bamboo slips, most of which are obviously professional words, meaning what methods should be used to offer sacrifices to ghosts and gods to eliminate disasters, or how to thank ghosts and gods if disasters are eliminated. But maybe some of them are records of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods.

Words that begin with "Zhan Zhi Ji" or "Zhan Zhi Heng Zhen Ji" immediately after the words of destiny are not recorded in Zhan Ren's name. Probably the person who said this is the person who asked for divination himself. Some words are followed by the saying "so-and-so is auspicious", which is probably said by another person. It is also possible that "so-and-so accounts for the discipline" is a provincial text of "so-and-so tomb (or other divination tools) accounts for the discipline".

Judging from the date of occupation in the existing bamboo tubes, these bamboo slips seem to be recorded in three months belonging to two years, namely, the month when the guest asked Wang Ling to be executed (the first month in the summer calendar) and the month when the guest asked Wang Ling to offer a horse (the September in the summer calendar). These two years are estimated to be similar.

According to the contents of Wen Zhen affairs, the contents of these Oracle Bone Inscriptions records can be roughly divided into three categories.

One kind asks whether the king and the doctor can "get things done"; The other kind asks "going in and out to serve the king"; There is also a kind of questions about the good or ill luck of the disease, and the number of such essays is the largest.