Yijing yarrow divination

If there is no remainder, take the last one as the "number" this time, and don't press 0.

The method of divination in the original "Wen Wang Gua"

The method of translating the original "Wen Wang Gua" into hexagrams is not very practical. It takes 30 minutes to play two hexagrams, and my hands and neck hurt. I just want to show you. I suggest six hexagrams and plum blossoms. Because there is no yarrow, so I use poker, for the same reason.

Preliminary study on divination and divination methods

The divination methods in the Book of Changes usually include "Wen Wang Gua" and "Qian Ke". "Wen Wang Gua" is the most commonly used divination method in ancient times. Because its calculation process is quite complicated and time-consuming, some charlatans who specialize in divination later invented some simple divination methods, such as "money lessons". However, judging from historical records and textual research of Yi-ology scholars in past dynasties, "Wen Wang Gua" is undoubtedly the authentic ancient divination method in the Book of Changes.

First, the deductive method of Wen Wang Gua

The number of big swallows is fifty, and its use is nine out of forty. Split in two, like two; Hang one like three. "Four times" is like four times. Strange as a leap is strange; Leap again at the age of five; Therefore, it is necessary to hang up again. ..... Four camps become easy, and eight out of ten hexagrams. -"Cohesive Biography"

Burial tools: Fifty stems of yarrow originated from the same yarrow. I removed one when I was playing hexagrams, and only 49 were used. The specific divination process is as follows:

First, divide the forty-nine yarrow stems involved in divination into two parts with both hands, with the left hand as "heaven" and the right hand as "earth". Then, take a yarrow stem from the right hand and put it between the little fingers of the left hand. It looks like a "person". In this way, the pattern of "three talents" of heaven, earth and people has been formed. Then, in groups of four, divide the yarrow stem of the left hand with the right hand first, and then divide the yarrow stem of the right hand with the left hand. After the scores are scored in groups, the remainder of the yarrow stem held in both hands must have a certain law: one is left and three are right; If there are more than two on the left, there are more than two on the right; There are more than three left and more than one right; If there are four left sides, there are four right sides. At this time, the remaining yarrow stems in the left hand are placed between the middle finger and the ring finger of the left hand, and the remaining yarrow stems in the right hand are placed between the index finger and the middle finger of the left hand. In this way, the remainder of the yarrow stems between the fingers of the left hand (including the one originally placed between the ring finger and the little finger to symbolize "human") is either five or nine, so the number of yarrow stems after removing the remainder must be forty-four or forty. At this point, the first step of yarrow calculus was completed, which was called "the first change" in ancient times.

After the "first change", remove the remainder between the fingers of the left hand, and calculate 44 or 40 yarrow stems held by both hands according to the same method and order as the "first change", that is, first combine 44 or 40 yarrow stems together, then arbitrarily split them in two, take out a yarrow stem from the right hand and put it between the ring finger and the little finger of the left hand, and then put the yarrow stem in the left hand by the right hand. The result of the "two changes" must be two left and one right, one left and two right, four left and three right, three left and four right, so the sum of the remainders in both hands is not four or eight, and the total number of yarrow in both hands is either forty or thirty-six or thirty-two.

As a result of the "three changes", the total number of yarrow stems held in both hands is not 36, 32, 28 or 24. Then divided by four, there will be a stubborn quotient:

36÷4=9

32÷4=8

28÷4=7

24÷4=6

According to the principle that odd numbers are Yang and even numbers are Yin, if the quotient is "9", it is the number of Lao Yang, that is, Yang is "; If the quotient is "8", it is the number of less yin, that is, "yin"; If the quotient is "7", it is the number of shaoyang, that is, yang is "; If the quotient is "6", it is the number of old yin, that is, "Yin". In this way, after three evolutions, we finally got a good idea. One * * * has six, so it takes eighteen calculus changes to arrange each one from bottom to top to get one. However, after the "three changes", what you get is a change, and sometimes you have to change, that is "change". That is, when the quotient is "9" or "6", Lao Yang or Laoyin is formed. According to the law that extremes meet, Laoyang becomes Yin and Laoyin becomes Yang, and then another divination is obtained, which is called "Zhigua". What has not changed is called "original". If there is no "change", that is, there are no "9" and "6" in the quotient of six variables, then there is no "divination"

In this way, the deduction process is all over, and a six-hexagram "original hexagram" or a "hexagram" is obtained. The method of divination and divination described above is what later generations call "Wen Wang Gua" or "Six hexagrams".

Then, according to the corresponding reasoning rules, the inferred hexagrams are inferred (explained by reason).

Second, the method of "money class"

Divination tools: three copper coins or other similar coins. The method of forming hexagrams is as follows:

The listener shook three coins or a bamboo tube in his hand and threw them on the table. According to their words and backs, he decided that the word "Shaoyang" was the back. The word "two backs" means "less yin"; Three times it was Lao Yang "",and the hexagrams turned cloudy ""; The three characters are old yin, and the hexagrams become yang.

In this way, after six dumps, you get a six-inch (or include the changed six-inch).