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Karma refers to divination by karma. Turtle divination means burning tortoise shells for good or ill luck. According to the image of head, body and feet of tortoise shell omen, divination is carried out.

Method of divination

Zhu's Book of Changes? The Book of Changes makes it very clear that the general idea is: 49 strategies (one yarrow is called a strategy) take out one strategy and put it aside, and the rest are randomly divided into two camps (two piles), each with four, and the rest are taken out and put aside. Then put the two piles of remainders together and divide them into two piles, then count four bits respectively and put the remainders in the middle of the last one. After counting, mix other yarrows together again, divide them into two piles, and then count the rest. Do this for three times, after removing the remainder and the one drawn from any pile at the beginning, the remaining yarrow number can only be one of these four numbers: 24, 28, 32, 36. If the number you get is not one of these four, then there must be a mistake in the process and you need to start again. Divide a quarter by four (because there are four seasons in spring, summer, autumn and winter), and you get one of seven, eight, nine and six, of which seven is shaoyang, eight is shaoyin, nine is Lao Yang and six is Laoyin, thus you get the first hexagram. Repeat these six times to obtain the divination image.

After getting the divinatory symbols, we can interpret and judge things according to the corresponding divinatory symbols and rhetoric. As Zhu's Book of Changes says:&; Six hexagrams remain unchanged, and the word is broken by this. A stubborn change, use this stubborn change to drop the word. The two changes are based on the six changes, but the above is the main one. Three changes, with the original divination, the original divination is chastity, and the divination is regret. Four changes, two unchanged, but the following is the main. Five changes, the heart remains the same. Six hexagrams are for change, and two hexagrams are for breaking words.

Turtle divination method

One is to choose turtles, mainly using water turtles (according to Mr. Dong Zuobin, an Oracle bone expert and one of the four Oracle bone halls) and taking turtles in autumn (Zheng Xuan's note: anything is possible). Second, kill the turtle, take the turtle in autumn and then kill it, leaving its carapace, and place it after classification &; God valley and spare. Generally, abdominal armor is used more. The third is to attack turtles, that is, sawing, scraping, misplacing and grinding. (Excerpted from Chen's Summary of Oracle Inscriptions in Yin Ruins). The fourth kind is drilling Oracle bones, the purpose of which is to make Oracle bones thinner, which is convenient for burning omens (from Luo Zhenyu's Textual Research on Yin Ruins). The fifth kind is the point turtle, which mainly tells the turtles what they want to divine after praising them, in order to get&; mega & amp； . Historical records? The Turtle Policy Biography contains many turtle life stories. Sixth, burning turtle, naked flame Ruo, mainly burning &; Drill &; However, due to the regularity of drilling and neat marks, the marks have a relatively fixed trend. The seventh is the tortoise. According to the body (omen), color (omen), ink (omen) and enamel (omen), fortune tellers distinguish the change of body, the good and evil of qi, the size of ink and the obscurity of enamel. Finally, the Emperor decides good or bad, which is recorded in the Book of Rites. Ding Jun Ti&; .

The turtle divination culture gradually died out in the late Warring States period. Originally, it was the product of religious superstition and theocracy under slavery, and it was a tool for slave patriarchs to maintain their rule. With the collapse of slavery, turtle divination culture also died out.