Plum Blossom Easy is easy to get started but difficult to master because the theory itself is flawed. But if you play well, you will find it very fun. It is very easy to make and interpret hexagrams.
Compared with numerology techniques such as Bazi and Liuyao, the numbering of plum blossoms is not a popular knowledge. There are not many researchers, not many in ancient times and not many today. Why? I think it can be summed up in four words: easy to learn but hard to master.
As we all know, there are two best ways to count plum blossoms: one is that the numbering of plum blossoms is the most accurate, which can be said to be the most accurate among all numerology techniques. This shows the evaluation of Shao Yong by many masters. Second, the plum blossom number is the easiest to learn. It can be said that it is the easiest to learn among all the numbers. It is no exaggeration to say that a fifth grade primary school student can learn how to make a hexagram if you teach him for a long time.
Everything in the world is inseparable from the dialectic of yin and yang. It is easy to get started, but it is difficult to master it. For example, writing, all Chinese people can write Chinese characters, but there are really only a handful of people who want to write well.
It is too difficult to master the number of plum blossoms. What is the difficulty? I think the first is to take the image, the second is to respond externally, and the third is the generation and restraint of the five elements.
First of all, I will briefly talk about why I studied the number of plum blossoms. It was actually an accident. I remember when I was in college, I lost a schoolbag and was very anxious. My tutor said, can I look for it for you? He asked me to report three numbers, and then predicted for me the location of the lost schoolbag, whether it could be found, etc. My tutor is a great philosopher, and I didn’t expect that he would use Plum Blossom Yi Technique to help me find my school bag, so I became very interested in it.
Later, I also studied a lot of numerology techniques and found that most of them had some flaws. Only the plum blossom numerology was close to perfect. Note my wording, it's close to perfect. First of all, plum blossom counting has a complete system, Shao Yong's original innate hexagram theory, which instantly kills most other numbering techniques. The Liuren, Taiyi, Liuyao, Bazi, Qimen, Ziwei, etc. that we know are all far-fetched on the basis of the Book of Changes, and there is no unique innovation at all. Only Plum Blossoms Are Easy to Count can be said to be the masterpiece of Shao Yong's collection.