One and six lines are a traditional Chinese divination method, which are often equated with the eight characters. The name Liuyao is basically a popular name among the people. Forecasters generally call it Bagua prediction. Its other names include "Huozhulin prediction", "Najia prediction", "Zhouyi prediction", etc. It is often called Zhouyi in books. predict.
The reason why 2 and 6 Yao are called Liu Yao is basically from the shape. After the hexagram is completed, it has six lines. Due to different reasons of movement and stillness, there are many changes. There are sixty-four hexagrams in Yi, and each hexagram has six lines. Hexagrams are divided into masters and variations due to the movement of the lines, so the evolution of the six lines is no less complicated than the eight characters.
There are many ways to form a hexagram with three or six lines, and it is even more casual among experts. For example: money makes a hexagram, yarrow makes a hexagram, sound makes a hexagram, a name makes a hexagram, a direction makes a hexagram, etc. You can do whatever is possible. What can you do if you have a hexagram? According to the display of the hexagram, we start from the divination of the celestial beings and numbers, and we can predict anything in the world by relying on the restraint between the lines. From a modern scientific point of view, this kind of divination is somewhat superstitious, but from a cultural perspective, it is still a wonder of ancient Chinese subjective materialist philosophy.