What does it mean to see gold across the river?

You can only see it, but you can't get it.

Looking at gold across the river means that a person sees an ingot of gold on the other side of the river and wants to get it, but the river is wide and deep and can't get it. Even if he has money, he can't take it out. The source of this sentence is the Book of Changes, which is the official divination book of their respective dynasties.

In addition, the Book of Changes, which is used in modern times, is the only Book of Changes in the Zhou Dynasty and the official divination of the Zhou Dynasty, so we should pay attention to it when using it. Fortune-telling and divination are inseparable. They originated in ancient times and have a civilization history of 5,000 years.

Extended data:

Early fortune-telling and divination originated from Guiguzi immortal, and later saints applied them to calendar, military, philosophy, society, personnel, Chinese medicine and so on. The so-called gossip is the eight basic figures in Zhouyi.

The basic figure is a combination of "one" as the yang and "-"as the yin. Its names are: Gan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui. They respectively symbolize eight natural phenomena: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountains and mountains.

In addition, the self-overlapping and mutual overlapping of the Eight Diagrams Scriptures also constitute sixty-four hexagrams. These abstract symbols and combination principles have been applied in China for thousands of years. Scholars from all over the world have done a lot of research on gossip.