Divination method of Yijing

To learn the Book of Changes, we must first learn and understand divination and divination methods, otherwise we will become superficial and don't know what it is used for.

The incantation method in this biography mainly comes from the record in Chapter 51, The Number of Big Swallows: the incantation method.

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The pronunciation of "city" is different from that of "Bu". "Bubu", also known as "Bubu", is made by drilling turtle shells or animal bones (such as cow bones), then baking them with fire and observing the signs (cracks) after baking. After Oracle Bone Inscriptions divined the tortoise, he recorded the posthumous inscription on the tortoise shell or ox bone.

The pronunciation of "snake" and Shuowen are "reading and holding". Paragraph note: "The number of readers is also different. It means we take it while counting. For example, how many beans we want to count, we can take out five, ten, fifteen, twenty ... five nickels and five nickels at the same time. This is called "the fifth five-year plan".

Zanthoxylum bungeanum, a compositae plant similar to wormwood or wormwood. It is said that yarrow stems have hundreds of knots, and "hundred" symbolizes "pole", which is 50 times the number of heaven and earth. It is spiritual, so it is used as a tool for divination. Simply put, the way to "rub" or "rub" is to take 50 yarrow and calculate the divinatory symbols.

The Book of Changes uses the method of divination, or it can be said that the Book of Changes is a reference book for divination. Today's practice method is derived from this record in "Cohesion", which was later called "Da Yan Zhang" by Confucianism:

Dayan counted fifty, divided into forty and nine, divided into two, one like two, one like three, one like four. It's strange to be like leap. At the age of five, it was leap, so it was hanged again. Five days, five digits, five combinations. There are five days in twenty, thirty places in the earth and fifty places in heaven and earth, which makes it possible to change and the behavior of ghosts and gods. There are six ways to do it. Kun's strategy is 140 middle four, 300 middle six, the current date. There are 1520 strategies in two chapters. When the number of things is also reasonable, four camps become easy, and nine out of ten hexagrams, gossip becomes small, it is delayed, it is long, and the world can do it.

"2: Press" Method "to operate.

The divination method contained in the divination chapter of Dayan is quite simple, and many details are not clearly explained, which also makes the later generations have many different interpretations of the divination method, but the more detailed and commonly used ones can be referred to: Zhu's Divination Instrument and Cheng Jiong's Detailed Interpretation of Divination.

The divination method introduced in this paper is simplified by Zhu's divination instrument, which omits details such as how to put the divination strategy and how to clip it. Simply put, divination has to go through eighteen changes, one hexagram and six hexagrams, so each hexagram has to go through three changes. One change is the so-called "four battalions", and the first battalion is the four steps of "dividing one into two, hanging one, promoting four, and returning to the strange".

One hexagram = six hexagrams = 18 change.

One change = three changes.

One change = four battalions

Four battalions = two, one, four, strange.

We should come up with a plan before we start. 50- 1 =49 strategy. Only 49 strategies were used. (The number of big swallows is fifty, and it uses nine out of forty. )

1, divided into two and randomly divided into two piles;

2. Hang one, take one from a pile (left-handed pile, Zhu right-handed pile) and hang (clip) it between your fingers. ;

3. "Four", two piles are divided by four respectively;

4. odd-back, the strategy of removing the remainder of two piles respectively; (Note: the remainder is 1~4, so if the remainder is divisible to zero, then we must adopt four strategies instead of not adopting them. )

5. After the two piles meet, move on to the next fourth battalion.

After three operations of "Four Battalions", the total number of remaining strategies is divided by 4 (at this time, it can only be 24-28-32-36), and finally four numbers such as 6, 7, 8 and 9 are obtained (7-8 is shaoyang and shaoyin, and 6-9 is Lao Yang or Laoyin).

Complete the above operations to get a battalion. After three consecutive operations, that is, three changes, a result is obtained. At this time, calculate the number of strategies, divide the total number of strategies by 4, and you can get one of the four numbers of 6, 7, 8 and 9, record these numbers and draw their yin and yang. Do this six times and you will get six hexagrams. This is a hexagram. As the picture on the right shows: on the left is divination, and on the right is divination, or a change of mind.

Three: Yin and Yang Painting

In order to develop from the bottom (inside) to the top (outside), the first one is at the bottom and the last one is at the top. 7 and 8 are shaoyang and shaoyin, and the yin and yang in this divination and its divination remain unchanged. 7 is Yang, 8 is Yin. As shown in Figure 7, it is:-→-. 9 and 6 are with the old Yin (or the sun and the lunar). In this hexagram, 9 is Yang and 6 is Yin. In divination, 9 becomes Yin and 6 becomes Yang. 9 draw:-→-. 6 draw:-→-. Finally, write the names of hexagrams and hexagrams, such as legends. He is rich and he is a big animal. This six-pointed star is called "a big animal with plenty".

1 10,000 simulation results of "raccoon dog" process:?

? Six "(24) 58673 seven" (28) 303082 eight "(32) 44 1707 nine" (36) 196538:

? They are: Laoyin, Shaoyang, Shaoyin and Lao Yang; Among them, Laoyin and Lao Yang are changeable or dynamic.

? The statistical results show that: Old Yin+Less Yin = Lao Yang+Less Yang, that is, the balance of Yin and Yang. However, among these variables, the ratio of Laoyin to Lao Yang is 3: 10.

"4: Conclusion"

The divination method of divination is the oldest divination method in the Book of Changes at present, and it is also the source of many divination method design principles in the Book of Changes. But according to the available data, this method should be built by Han people. As for this method handed down from the Han Dynasty, it is not clear whether it conforms to the divination method of the Warring States, the Spring and Autumn Period, or the earlier Western Zhou Dynasty.

Although there are still many questions and controversies about the divination method, process and steps provided in this paper, it can give us a preliminary understanding of the divination process and interpretation process of Yijing, and understand the ins and outs of the sixty-four hexagrams in Yijing.

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