The essence of the hexagram energy of plum blossoms is the prosperity and decline of the hexagrams in the current solar terms and when the results will be produced in the future. The prosperity and decline of the five elements in the solar terms must refer to the prosperity and decline of the five elements in the solar terms at that time in the five fortunes and six qi.
There are currently many theories on Gua Qi theory, and the principles they are based on actually come from the seven chapters on luck in the "Nei Jing". Gua Qi is the Qi of the "Five Movements and Six Qi" in the "Nei Jing". Because time and space are constantly changing, and times are constantly developing. If it can be judged simply by the relationship between the hexagrams and the hexagrams, even if the Meihua Yi math theory was founded later, for hundreds of years , the sages have already memorized all the elements of the sixty-four hexagrams using Shengke, and later generations can just use them as formulas. There is a theory of change in Yi, "The number should be explained correctly, and it must be backed up by theory. If you only discuss the number without considering the theory, you will stick to your first sight without verifying it." To know how the hexagram energy comes from, you must first understand what it is. Solar terms, what are the five lucks and six qi.
(1) Luo Shu and Solar Terms
Luo Shu
The Luo Shu numbers originally come from the Nine Palaces under the Taiji, and the forty-five numbers are used to represent the stars. . The Nine Palaces and Eight Winds diagram cooperates with the Eight Winds and Bagua. The central palace, which is the middle palace of Luoshu, is the core of the surrounding eight palaces. The ancients observed the astronomical phenomena and believed that the North Star (Tai Yi) always resides in the north and can be used as the center and positioning standard. The Nine Palaces are pointed by the handle of the Big Dipper, and the nine brightest stars in the celestial body are found as symbols. It is convenient to use the handle to identify the directions and find the positions and numbers of the nine stars, which are the positions and numbers of the Luoshu.
The ancients discovered that the handle of the Big Dipper rotates around the North Star, and the seasons of the earth move in sequence. Starting from the winter solstice, the handle points to the Ye Zhe Palace due north, which governs the three solar terms of winter solstice, minor cold and major cold. Six days; the next day after expiration is the Spring Equinox, and the bucket handle points to the Tianliu Palace in the northeast, which governs the three solar terms of Spring, Rain, and Waking of Insects for forty-six days; the next day after the expiration is the Vernal Equinox, the bucket handle points to the due east. The Cangmen Palace of the Cangmen Palace is in charge of the three solar terms of Spring Equinox, Qingming and Grain Rain for forty-six days; after the expiration of the period, the next day is the Beginning of Summer, and the bucket handle points to the Yinluo Palace in the southeast, which is in charge of the three solar terms of Beginning of Summer, Xiaoman and Mangzhong for forty-five days. The next day after expiration is the summer solstice, and the bucket handle points to the Shangtian Palace in the south, which governs the three solar terms of Summer Solstice, Minor Heat, and Great Heat for forty-six days; the next day after the expiration is the Beginning of Autumn, the bucket handle points to the Xuanwei Palace in the southwest. It governs the three solar terms of Beginning of Autumn, End of Heat, and White Dew for forty-six days; after expiration, the autumnal equinox occurs the next day, and the bucket handle points to Cangguo Palace, which is due west, and governs the three solar terms of autumnal equinox, cold dew, and frost for forty-six days; after expiration, The next day is the beginning of winter, and the handle of the bucket points to the Xinluo Palace in the northwest, which governs the three solar terms of beginning of winter, light snow, and heavy snow for forty-five days; after the expiration of the period, it returns to Yezhe Palace and it is the winter solstice of the next year. The ancients called the meeting of the sun and the moon in each month a period. If the sun, the moon and the Beidou both meet in the month, it is called a qi. If the Beidou does not come to meet the sun and the moon in the month, it is called a period. Days set this month as a leap month, thus creating twenty-four solar terms to guide agricultural production.
Now the extension line of the Earth's rotation in the northern hemisphere is approximately pointing to the North Star. In today's astronomical knowledge, North Star refers to the Alpha Ursa Minor star. When people in the northern hemisphere look up at the sky, they feel that this star will never be there. It is moving, so first on the celestial body, this star is used as a fixed point to determine the movement direction of other planets. However, Alpha Ursa Minor has not been the North Star since ancient times. Since the Earth's rotation axis slowly swings periodically, the position in the sky where the Earth's rotation axis points to the North Pole is also changing. The sky pointing to the North Pole of the Earth's rotation axis moves at a speed of 15 arc seconds per year. 4,800 years ago, the North Star was not the current Alpha Ursa Minor, but the Alpha Draconis. At that time, it was the era of Fuxi, who was also studying Yi. It is often said that the era of innate orientation. In the era when the acquired orientation of the "Book of Changes" was formed, although Alpha Ursa Minor was not as close to the extension line of the earth's rotation axis as it is now, in the era without modern technology, this star was still used as the North Star because there were no nearby stars. Brighter stars are used as fixed-point coordinates. The North Pole of the Earth's rotation axis now points to the sky only about 1 degree from Alpha Ursa Minor. By around 2100 AD, the angular distance between the sky pointing toward the North Pole of the Earth's rotation axis and Alpha Ursa Minor was the smallest, only about 28 arc minutes. In the future, the sky pointing toward the North Pole of the Earth's rotation axis will gradually move away from Alpha Ursa Minor. By around AD 4000, Gamma Cephei will become the North Star. In this way we can understand why there are innate orientations and acquired orientations. By 4000 AD, our orientation will have to be changed again, but I don't think anyone alive can wait for that day, so we learn Yi now, and the acquired orientation will be enough for us to predict everything.
(2) Five Luck, Six Qi and Gua Qi
When it comes to divination, luck is mentioned. Luck is the abbreviation of Five Luck and Six Qi. The theory of luck is an ancient Chinese theory that studies climate change and its relationship with human health and disease. It occupies a relatively important position in traditional Chinese medicine. "Huangdi Neijing" believes that people are part of nature, and people must comply with the changes in natural yin and yang, otherwise diseases will occur. The disease-causing factors are divided into three types: external causes (such as six evils, epidemics, etc.), internal causes (such as seven Emotion) and internal and external causes (including improper diet, insect bites, fatigue, sexual intercourse, trauma, etc.). Similarly, divination in life also has external factors (such as the general environment, people around you, etc.), internal factors (one's own personality and attitude towards doing things), and internal and external factors (one's own conditions, etc.). Divination is like a doctor who treats people, looking, hearing, and asking about a person. life or events.
Similarly, in order to correctly judge the due date and good or bad outcome of plum blossoms, you must first be optimistic about the luck of the hexagram. Therefore, if you do not understand the five fortunes and six qi, you cannot clearly determine the prosperity and decline of the hexagrams. , so it is impossible to talk about the accuracy of good or bad luck. The calculation methods and application methods of the five movements and six qi are relatively complicated. You can refer to books on luck written by modern Chinese medicine. The following is only a brief description.
The theory of luck, also known as the theory of five movements and six qi, is a science that combines medicine to explore the laws of meteorological movements. That is to say, the five fortunes (the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), the six qi (sun cold water, Yangming dry metal, Shaoyang phase fire, Taiyin wet earth, Shaoyin monarch fire, Jueyin wind and wood) and the heavenly stems (A, B, B, D, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Rengui) are combined with The Earthly Branches (Zichou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Shen You Shu Hai) work together, and according to the chronological order of the stems and branches, the relationship between the rise and fall of yin and yang, and the growth and restraint of the five elements, we can infer the excesses and deficiencies of a certain year to predict climate changes, the occurrence and prognosis of diseases.
It governs the five elements of the year. It is also known as Zhongyun (the Qi of the five elements is in the rise and fall of the heaven and earth Qi) and Dayun (governing the year-round luck). In the year of Jia Ji, earth luck rules; in the year of Yi and Geng, the luck of metal rules; in the year of Bing and Xin, the luck of water rules; in the year of Ding and Ren, the luck of wood rules; in the year of Wu and Gui, the luck of fire rules. The luck of the year can be divided into excessive and insufficient years. The year of Yang stem is the year of excess, and the year of Yin stem is the year of insufficient.
The main movement refers to the luck that presides over the five seasons of the year. It reflects the normal changes in the climate in the five seasons of the year. It remains the same year after year, so it is called the main movement. The main movement is divided into five main periods. Although it remains unchanged all year round, the five steps of main movement have undergone too many changes. When calculating, the methods of "Five Tones for Building Luck", "Too Shao Xiang Sheng" and "Five Steps for Luck Advancement" must be used.
Abnormal climate changes in the five seasons of the year. Compared with main transport, passenger transport is also a time-dependent transport, but because it varies from year to year within ten years, just like the coming and going of passengers, it is called passenger transport. Together with the main movement, *** presides over each step of the five steps of the year. The annual passenger transportation is also divided into five types: wood transportation, fire transportation, earth transportation, metal transportation, and water transportation. The similarities between the passenger transport and the main transport are: the five transports are divided into five periods, and each transport is divided into seventy-three days and five quarters; they are all in the order of the five elements, too little, and five steps to advance the fortune. The difference between the two is that the passenger transport changes with the luck of the year and is different from year to year, while the main transport starts from the spring corner and ends at the winter feather, which remains unchanged year after year.
The six gases refer to the six types of climate changes: wind, heat (summer), fire, dampness, dryness, and cold. The six qi are divided into three types: main qi, guest qi, and guest and host plus lin. The main qi measures the constant, the guest qi measures changes. The guest qi plus the guest qi is a comprehensive analysis method that combines constant and change.
The main qi, that is, the qi that governs the time, governs the normal climate changes throughout the year. The main qi includes six types: wind and wood, monarch fire, phase fire, wet earth, dry metal, and cold water. Because it stays the same year after year, remains calm and maintains its position, it is also called earth qi.
The three yin and three yang qi in the sky are called "civil qi" because their guest residence is uncertain, which is different from the fixed main qi. The polite qi is the same as the main qi, and is also divided into six types: wind and wood, prime fire, monarch fire, wet earth, dry metal, and cold water.
The situation of politeness is more complicated. There are differences between Sitian, Zaiquan and left and right. The third qi is Sitian, and the final qi is Zaiquan. The second qi and the fourth qi are the left and right qi of Si Tian, ??and the fifth qi and the first qi are the left and right qi of Zaiquan. The arrangement of the six qi is yin first and then yang, all arranged in the order of one, two and three. Namely: Jueyin wind wood, Shaoyin king fire, Taiyin damp soil, Shaoyang phase fire, Yangming dry gold, and Taiyang cold water. (This order is a little different from the main Qi, that is, the Shaoyang phase fire is taken one step back and inserted between the Taiyin wet earth and the Yangming dry gold)
Add the six polite steps of the annual rotation to Above the six steps of fixed main energy. Since the main air can only summarize the regular changes in the climate in a year, and the specific changes in the climate depend on the guest air, only by combining the guest air and the host air can we grasp the actual changes in the climate that year.
The five movements and six qi mainly provide traditional Chinese medicine with the influence of climate on human external diseases and make predictions in advance. Based on the idea of ??"the unity of man and nature", Mei Yi combines the prosperity and decline of the five elements in the five fortunes and six qi, and can also infer the impact of the external environment on the development of life or events, thereby making advance predictions. The essence of the hexagram energy of plum blossoms is the prosperity and decline of the hexagrams in the current solar terms and the future solar terms when they produce results.
Take 2009 as an example, use the five fortunes and six qi to analyze the hexagrams in each solar term:
Jichou Sui (January 20, 2009 - January 2010 On the 20th of the month), the earth luck is not good, the Taiyin is wet and the Tusi sky is wet, the sun is cold and the water is in the spring. The earth transport is not strong enough throughout the year. The earth is worse in the first half of the year and the water is stronger in the second half of the year. If the earth transport is not good enough, the wind will be strong. Therefore, wood can overcome the earth at any time throughout the year.
Early Qi (January of the Great Cold - Spring Equinox): The dominant Qi is Jueyin Wind Wood, while the more gentle Jueyin Wind Wood is. The wood is prosperous and will not be discouraged when it meets the soil.
The second Qi (Spring Equinox-Xiao Man): the main Qi is Shaoyin Jun Fire, and the polite Shaoyin Jun Fire is the main Qi. The fire is strong but the fire still generates earth.
Three Qi (Xiaoman-Dashu): The main Qi is Shaoyang and the phase is Fire, while the Taiyin and Dampness are the earth. Fire and earth are both strong, but fire does not generate earth and earth does not generate metal.
Four Qi (Great Summer - Autumnal Equinox): The dominant Qi is Taiyin and moist earth, while the more moderate Qi is Shaoyang and Fire. Fire and earth are both strong, but fire does not generate earth and earth does not generate metal.
The Fifth Qi (Autumnal Equinox-Light Snow): The dominant Qi is Yangming and dry gold, while the more polite Qi is Yangming and dry gold. When metal is strong and earth is completely weakened, when metal is provoked and wood encounters, it will be restrained.
Six Qi (Xiaoxue-Dahan): The main Qi is the cold water of the sun, and the cold water of the sun is the most negative. Water is strong and soil cannot overcome water.