1. Kanyu
Kan, meaning sudden ground, is a word representing "terrain"; Yu, "Chengyu" means studying topography and features, focusing on the topography of the landforms. depict. "Historical Records" lists the Kanyu family in parallel with the Five Elements Family. It originally meant to look up at the sky and observe the mountains and rivers. Later generations specifically called the people who read Feng Shui: "Kanyu Family", so "Kanyu" is also called "Kanyu" among the people. Feng Shui". However, the name "Kanyu" does not just depend on Feng Shui, but should be divided into five parts, namely: Luo Luo, Rika, Xuan Kong Xue, Burial Method and Xing Jia. In fact, from a scientific point of view, Feng Shui is a kind of environmental psychology. Changes in the environment will affect a person's mood, destiny, magnetic field, etc.
2. Astrology
In Chinese historical culture, astrology plays a very important role. The "Book of Changes" says, "Observe the geography to check changes in time." In ancient times, when all nations in the world entered the agricultural era from the animal husbandry era, they were bound to observe celestial phenomena. Ancient Chinese geographical conjecture mainly involved astrology. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, astrology had become a science and was mainly used to determine the calendar. , and measure the world's major events. Stargazing in a broad sense. As stated in "Yi Si Zhan" and "Kaiyuan Zhan Jing". The astrology used to measure one's own destiny is called pentagram, horoscope, etc. With the development of the times, astrology has evolved into geography, which deeply affects our lives.
3. The art of guessing
It is divided into three secret arts: Qimen, Liuren and Taiyi. Qi Men Dun Jia is a science that discusses the laws of motion of celestial bodies, humans and the earth; Da Liu Ren is a science that uses the objective celestial phenomena of the work of heaven to make conjectures about everything between heaven and man; Tai Yi divine calculation, the number of years since Jiazi is called Tai Yi Ji Nian, From the accumulated years of Taiyi, the Taiyi fleeting years and Taisui hexagrams are calculated to determine the luck of the year. Many of them have been lost, and those that have not been lost have been manipulated by some fortune tellers and pseudo-masters to look like they have no civilized knowledge.
4. Formation
In ancient China, leading troops in combat paid special attention to the formation of troops, and the quality of the formation can affect the combat effectiveness and cohesion of an army. The most famous one is Zhuge Liang's Bagua array (the editor's father-in-law went there two years ago and said he really can't get around it), which was originally created by Sun Bin and originated from the Bagua array of the Book of Changes; it was the famous Southern Song Dynasty general Yue Fei's "Golden Soldier". "Guaizi Ma" developed the Star Spreading Formation; Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang invented the Mandarin Duck Formation to fight against Japanese pirates. It can be seen that formations were extremely important in ancient marching and fighting. Unfortunately, with the development of science and technology, cold weapon warfare is almost invisible, and formations are about to disappear in the long history.
5. Divination
When it comes to divination, I believe our first reaction is fortune telling, but in fact, divination is an ancient magic. It should be regarded as the earliest witchcraft activity in ancient China. Divination during the Yin and Shang Dynasties had two forms, one was divination and the other was divination. Divination, that is, tortoise divination, involves roasting the tortoise shell and animal bones that have been processed by drilling, chiseling, etc. on the fire, and then using specialized divination to observe the texture and pattern formed by the burning of the tortoise shell and animal bones, and to infer the good and bad luck of personnel; 筮, Using yarrow or other countable objects as tools, they are arranged and combined in a specific way. The resulting series of numbers form a hexagram, and fortune and misfortune are predicted based on these numbers.