Crabs are written into the mysterious Zhouyi. Which of the eight diagrams is it?

Editor's Note: Crabs have a high occurrence rate in ancient books, such as The Book of Rites and Shangshu. This issue will introduce the relevant records about crabs in Zhouyi, and briefly introduce the origin and changes of gossip.

Crab records

There are records about crabs in the Book of Changes ... turtles, crabs, clams and turtles. " Among them, snail is also a snail. The four categories listed in the back have a * * * similarity, that is, they have a hard shell, giving people a hard feeling.

This is actually a very simple biological classification in ancient China. For example, the horse is a divination, and the cow is a divination. Here, crabs are classified as a kind of divination, which has many meanings such as fire, sun, thunder and lightning, south and so on.

According to the current biological classification, turtles belong to reptiles, crabs belong to crustaceans, snails belong to gastropods and mussels belong to bivalves. There are still many differences.

The source of gossip

According to legend, Shuo Guapian is an annotated article made by Confucius on Zhouyi, which mainly explains the source changes of gossip and its contents respectively. According to it, stone grass is used for divination because there are gods in the dark, which can be predicted by divination.

"Number" originates from heaven and earth, Yang number belongs to heaven, and Yin number belongs to territory.

"Guaxiang" is formed by the change of Yin and Yang.

"Stubbornness" is formed because of the change of rigidity and flexibility.

Eight diagrams are based on yin and yang in the sky, rigidity and softness in the earth, and benevolence and righteousness in people, so there are three paintings, each with two variations, and finally eight kinds of divinatory symbols.

Our interpretation and application of hexagrams should conform to the laws of nature and ethics, so as to exhaust the theory of heaven and earth and give full play to its value.

Congenital divination and acquired divination

The things represented by gossip are also classified in Shuo Guapian, which is also the basis of congenital hexagrams in ancient times. The so-called "innate divination" means to have numbers before divination, and "acquired divination" means to have divination before divination.

For example, when you are walking on the road, suddenly a crab climbs in front of you, and you are moved, you can start divination with this crab, its position and time. This is divination the day after tomorrow.

If you sit at home, use yarrow, copper coins and other figures. , is a congenital divination.

These two points are also developed in the later period. In the early days, no matter what you want to know in your heart, or what you see in particular, you should use yarrow turtle shells for divination.

Because the way of burning tortoise shells to see hexagrams is too mysterious, it was gradually changed to the way of putting copper coins in tortoise shells. Later, even the tortoise shells were omitted and copper coins were used directly, but yarrow was still used.

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