Book of Changes
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Before starting, please choose your favorite mobile phone number! < /p>
A.55 B.66 C.88 D.99
The answer is: 55 is the most awesome number among all numbers, more awesome than 88! Nowadays, many people like to choose those with "8" in their mobile phone numbers and license plate numbers, such as the last number of their mobile phone "5438", haha! It seems that no one likes "I am 38" haha, I gave the wrong example!
Actually, this is due to a lack of understanding of traditional culture. Real experts will choose two consecutive "fives" - fifty-five is the so-called "Dayan number".
Our ancestors divided the ten numbers from one to ten into "numbers of heaven" and "numbers of earth", which sounds very mysterious. In fact, to put it bluntly, they are odd numbers and even numbers: "number of days" is one. , three, five, seven, nine, the "land number" is two, four, six, eight, ten.
Next, do some math problems:
Add the five "numbers of days": 1+3+5+7+9=?
Correct answer 25
Add the five "land numbers": 2+4+6+8+10=?
Correct answer 30
Add the sum of "number of days" and the sum of "number of places": 25+30=?
Correct answer: 55. If you can do all these calculations, you can graduate from elementary school, ha!
Understand, this is how the so-called "Dayan number" is derived. It is the sum of "the number of days" and "the number of land".
When the ancients first had some mathematical experience, they would have a mysterious fascination with numbers, thinking that they contained some mysteries of the universe that we did not know - let’s take a look at the contemporaries of ancient Greece. Through the research of Dagoras, we will understand that this psychology is not unique to the Chinese.
Okay, now that we know the number of days and places, we can start learning fortune telling!
What to use for calculation? Here we also introduce the basic knowledge!
Many people are confused about how fortune-telling is done in the Book of Changes. Why? ——Just like those who practice Feng Shui, there are too many hills. The masters use all kinds of tricks, and they all say that they are the most powerful and authentic.
So who is the most authentic?
What are Ziping Bazi, Zhuge Divine Calculation, Shao Kangjie's "Huangji Jingshi", Plum Blossoms Yishu, Chen Tuan's Hetu Luoshu, Jingfang and Jiao Gan, etc., etc., all of these They are all very backward things, and the more they are attached to them, the more complicated they become. Their only function is to make people unable to find the north. Haha~~
What is the most original document?
Correct answer! It’s very simple, it’s the "Book of Changes"
Now during the break after class, take a general Yi test. What is the difference between the narrow sense of the Book of Changes and the broad sense of the Book of Changes?
That’s right, give me a kiss, huh, right? If it’s not right, give me a knife!
Where does Tsinghua University’s school motto of “continuous self-improvement, and great virtue” come from?
What we generally call the "Book of Changes" is the "Book of Changes". Strictly speaking, there are actually two parts in it, one is the "Book of Changes" and the other is the "Book of Changes". The "Book of Changes" and the "Book of Changes" together constitute the "Book of Changes". On closer inspection, the "Book of Changes" (in a narrow sense) is the most original document in existence, while the "Book of Changes" is mainly the interpretation and elucidation of the "Book of Changes" by some scholars during the Warring States Period, which is at least as old as the times. Several hundred years later than the Book of Changes. In other words, if we regard the "Book of Changes" as a textbook, then the "Book of Changes" is a teaching aid. If we look at the time interval, we can imagine the relationship between the "Book of Changes" and the "Book of Changes" as follows: People in the Ming Dynasty wrote a textbook, and from the Qing Dynasty to our modern times, many people wrote this book Different teaching aids, and then the textbooks and these teaching aids were compiled together. This is the "Book of Changes" we see now.
So, when we read "Book of Changes", we must remember to read "Book of Changes" and "Book of Changes" separately. The content of the "Book of Changes" is very brief and consists entirely of divination words, while the "Book of Changes" elucidates many philosophical thoughts through divination.
So, what can we learn from the most original document, the "Book of Changes"?
The answer may surprise some people: in the "Book of Changes", there is neither gossip nor fortune-telling methods.
Aren’t you just giving us cards? Why don’t you tell me how to play? Is it a tractor or a royalist? Otherwise, it will blow. Whoever blows it over first will win one? Haha, of course not, then where? Don't worry, follow me!
The most original document recording fortune-telling methods is "Yi Zhuan". "Yi Zhuan" is a collective name, which includes ten documents explaining the "Book of Changes". These ten documents have always been called "Ten Wings". There is an article "Xici" in "Ten Wings", which explains the method of fortune-telling for the first time in history. You can easily remember the following words, haha, but it doesn't matter if you don't remember. The method I will teach you in the future is to Explanation of this paragraph:
The number of Dayan is fifty, and its use is ninety-nine.
Divide it into two to symbolize two, hang one to symbolize three, dig it into four to symbolize the four o'clock, and return it to the strange place to dig it out to symbolize the leap. Five years old is a leap again, so it is cut again and then hanged. The sky is one and the earth is two; the sky is three and the earth is four; the sky is five and the earth is six; the sky is seven and the earth is eight; the sky is nine and the earth is ten. The number of heaven is five, and the number of earth is five. The five figures are in harmony with each other. The number of heaven is twenty, there are five, the number of earth is thirty, and the number of heaven and earth is fifty, there are five. This is why ghosts and gods can change. Qian's strategy has six out of two hundred and ten, Kun's strategy has four out of one hundred and forty, and Fan's three hundred and sixty, on the current day. The strategies of the two articles amount to one thousand five hundred and twenty, which should be regarded as the number of all things. Therefore, the four camps form the "Yi", eight out of ten of them become hexagrams, and trigrams become small ones. Introduce it and extend it, touch it and grow it, and all the things in the world can be accomplished. It shows the virtues of Taoism and God, so it can be used to entertain and bless the gods. Confucius said: "Those who know the way of change know what God does.
Be sure to read it carefully! Look carefully!
The time has come to test your skills in ancient Chinese prose!
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Can you understand it?
Can’t you understand it?
We should popularize ancient Chinese education. Even teachers can’t understand it, but students can’t understand it. Do you understand?
What, you still can’t understand?
Don’t be discouraged, don’t feel inferior, don’t say you can’t understand, even the ancient Yi Xue masters can’t understand. Understood.
There were several top experts who studied "The Book of Changes" in the Song Dynasty, and Zhu Xi was one of them. When he commented on this paragraph, he said helplessly: "This paragraph talks about the specific fortune-telling method. , but that’s too simple! How this set of things works is probably only known to the fortune tellers in ancient times, but it is no longer possible to verify it now. ”
What do Zhu Xi’s words mean? It shows that the discussion of fortune-telling methods in "Xici" is simply incomprehensible. What's more, "Xici" is at least later than "I Ching" 》It’s been hundreds of years, but these statements are not necessarily original.
What to do? There is a way: as bold as a person is, the land is more productive; if you are not afraid of not being able to do it, you are afraid of not being able to think of it. ! The hard explanation also needs to explain this passage!
Since then, this fortune-telling method has been interpreted by senior experts.
The popular classic interpretation is:
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First, find fifty or fifty yarrow roots.
What is yarrow? It is a kind of grass specially used for fortune-telling. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have it. Use a toothpick. Matchsticks are also fine, of course the professional ones generally use Go pieces, and they are not made of ordinary glass or plastic, but high-end jade Go pieces, which are calculated on a delicate ox bone chessboard. The purpose is to make the deceived The fool dare not say anything wrong. In order to make people feel that the fortune teller is very professional and authoritative, we can do it behind closed doors and use whatever is convenient. If you are strong enough, you can use it. Fifty or fifty-five shot balls to predict fortune.
So, is it fifty or fifty-five? Why is there such a loose word in the first place? /p>
——According to the literal meaning of "Xici", it is "fifty", but some experts believe that this is contradictory to the context. There is a "五" missing after "fifty", so it should be " "Fifty-five".
Why fifty-five? Isn't eighty-eight more auspicious?
You still dare to agree? If you dare to fight, our investigation before the start of class was in vain? This is the "number of Dayan", which is the sum of "number of days" and "number of earth".
The following question is: I am about to start fortune telling. Should I use fifty chess pieces or not. What about fifty-five?
The answer is: It doesn’t matter, you can use as many as you want.
Who hit me? Oh my God, why are there rotten eggs in the sky?
< p>This is not imprudent or irresponsible, but: in actual operation, only forty-nine chess pieces are enough. If you took fifty at the beginning, then remove one. ; If you take fifty-five at the beginning, then take away six.Some people will definitely say: "Isn't this just because you are full? Just say forty at the beginning." If nine chess pieces aren't enough, what else is there to do with the 'Dayan number'? ! ”
The ancients did not think that they were full. They believed that this practice had a mysterious symbolic meaning or was for technical convenience. We don’t care about that much, anyway. Just remember that the actual fortune-telling is done with forty-nine chess pieces - you'd better find forty-nine chess pieces or something else and follow the steps below to do the calculation.
Now, the first step of fortune-telling begins: randomly divide the 49 chess pieces into two groups: left and right. Don't underestimate such a simple grouping. It has a very profound symbolic meaning, symbolizing the beginning of chaos and the division of heaven and earth into two. So, of these two sets of chess pieces, one represents the sky and the other represents the earth.
Step 2: Now that the sky and the earth are complete, is it time for someone?
Yes, if you remove a chess piece from any group (some people say you can only take it from the group on the right that symbolizes land), this chess piece symbolizes people. In this way, heaven, earth, and people are all included. Yes, our ancestors called these three things "three talents".
Step 3: Count the number of chess pieces in the group that symbolizes the sky. After counting clearly, divide this number by 4 and see. See what the remainder is (set it to X, remember it is X, you will need it later).
When any number is divided by 4, there are only four possible remainders: 1, 2, 3, and even divisibility.
If we encounter an integer division situation, we will treat the remainder as 4. Okay, now take the remainder away.
For example, there are 20 chess pieces in this group, then: 20÷4=5, there is no remainder, then we use 4 as the remainder and remove 4 chess pieces from these 20 pieces. .
Some people may ask: "Why divide by 4? This number is so unlucky! Why not divide by 8?"
The answer is: This is also symbolic. , 4 here symbolizes the four seasons of the year. (This symbolic statement should not be earlier than the Zhou Dynasty, because the Shang Dynasty society did not have four seasons, only two seasons.) It seems that the ancients of that era did not think that the number 4 was unlucky, because the whole The fortune-telling process of Zhouyi all revolves around 4.
Step 4: Follow the same pattern as the group of chess pieces that symbolize the land, the same as in the third step (the remainder here is set to Y, remember to be Y, it will be used in the future).
Step 5: Take the 1 chess piece used to symbolize a person in the second step, the X chess pieces that were removed as a remainder in the third step, and the The remaining Y chess pieces removed are piled together. How many pills are there in one ***?
Why did 6 pills come out? Little guy, please do the calculation again!
Note: There are only two possibilities for the number calculated in the fifth step, either 9 or 5. If the number you calculated is neither 9 nor 5 , that means you made a mistake in one of the previous steps, so just start over from the beginning.
Okay, from the first step to the fifth step, this set of actions is completed, which is called "Yibian", which means "the first set of prescribed actions".
From now on, the "first change" ends and the "second change" begins. In other words: the second set of prescribed actions begins.
The second set of prescribed actions is very simple, just repeat the "first change". Note: At the end of the second change and the fifth step of the calculation, there are only two possible answers, either 4 or 8. If the number you come up with is neither 4 nor 8, congratulations, it only means that you made a wrong calculation and try again.
Then comes the third set of prescribed actions, wisdom is the "three changes"
We have gone through the "first change", "second change", and "three changes", and the fortune-telling work is temporarily Come to an end.
Look now, the last number of chess pieces I have left is 32.
Note: After these three processes are completed, there are only 4 possible final numbers: 24, 28, 32, and 36.
No matter which of these 4 numbers you get, work harder and do a little calculation and divide the number by 4. In my example just now, the final number is 32, so: 32÷4=8.
After calculating this step, we finally calculated a line.
What is Yao?
——Yao is the most basic unit of hexagram. There are only two types of Yao Yi***, one is the Yang Yao, the symbol is "-"; the other is the Yin Yao, the symbol is "--", the six Yao are stacked together to form a hexagram. A popular view is that Yin Yao and Yang Yao are the earliest binaries in history. In fact, this statement stems from Western scholars' well-intentioned misunderstanding of Eastern mysterious culture - Yin Yao and Yang Yao can be said to be the opposition of Yin and Yang. , whether it is an odd number or an even number, it has nothing to do with binary anyway. There are so many experts who have studied "Zhouyi" throughout the ages, but I have never heard of anyone using this set of things to solve mathematical problems.
By the way, we just did three calculations in one day and finally came up with a number: 8. We need to record this number - you take out a piece of paper and respectfully write down this number at the bottom of the paper: 8.
Remember: you must record it respectfully, sincerity will lead to success!
But, "8", this guy looks like an Arabic numeral no matter how you look at it. It doesn't look like a yin or a yang, so what kind of yao is it?
——Ignore this problem for now, just continue to calculate according to the "three changes" method.
How to continue? One word: repeat! ——Put all 49 chess pieces together again, and then do the "first change", then the "second change", and then the "third change". Divide the final number by 4 and record this number. On top of the "8" just now, this completes the second line.
There are two problems that need to be solved now. The first question is: Why should the new score be recorded above the head of "8"? Why can't it be recorded to the left, right, or below "8"?
The answer is: In a hexagram, the order of the lines is from bottom to top, so the first line you calculated should be placed at the bottom, and the second line calculated should be placed at the bottom. On the top of the head of the first line, wait until the third line is calculated, and then place it on top of the head of the second line until all six lines are calculated. It's like building a six-story building. Build the first floor first, then the second, third, and finally the sixth floor.
The second question is: the last "divide by 4", what if there is a remainder?
The answer is: there is no remainder, unless you make a mistake.
Didn’t I just say that at the last step of each "three changes", there are only 4 possible total numbers of chess pieces in the left and right groups: 24, 28, 32, 36. Let’s divide it and see:
24÷4＝6
28÷4＝7
32÷4＝8
36 ÷4=9
So, there are only four final numbers: 6, 7, 8, and 9. We just got 8. If we go through another round of "one change" and " "Two changes" and "three changes", these four situations still cannot occur.
For fortune telling, one needs to calculate a complete hexagram. How many lines does a complete hexagram consist of? ——Six.
A hexagram is composed of six lines. Therefore, since it takes three "changes" to obtain one line, how many "changes" are needed to obtain all six lines?
This is easy to calculate: 3×6=18.
Three becomes a line, eighteen becomes a hexagram. Now you know, this is how the proverbial "female transformation" came about. (Is this really how it came about? Who knows)
Okay, now we pretend to have done the calculation over and over again, and calculated from the first line to the sixth line in turn, what we recorded on the paper is There are six numbers from bottom to top: 8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8.
Aren’t these all Arabic numerals? Does it have anything to do with Yin Yao and Yang Yao?
Of course it does!
Let’s first divide the four numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 into yin and yang - when you are trying to trick others, you must say "yin and yang", but you must know in your heart that the so-called "yin and yang" "Yin and Yang" actually means "dividing odd and even numbers": 7 and 9 are both odd numbers, we call them "Yang"; 6 and 8 are both even numbers, we call them "Yin". Specific to the hexagrams, 7 and 9 are represented by Yang Yao, and 6 and 8 are represented by Yin Yao. In this way, the "8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8" written from bottom to top on the paper can be replaced by the "Yin, Yin, Yin, Yang" also arranged from bottom to top. , Yin, Yin", that is: from "8, 9, 9, 7, 7, 6" to "Yin, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yin", the hexagram image of Yu.
This hexagram has five yin lines, and the fourth line is a yang line. When drawn, it is the Yu hexagram. (How do you know what Gua Tian it is? You can’t find it out even if you can’t remember it? In the future society, everyone will have a copy of the I Ching. You don’t have one yet, so why not buy one?………………Omit 10,000 words below .........)
You can breathe a sigh of relief. Now, we have finally calculated a complete hexagram!
Can you tell fortunes now?
——Not yet. There is still some work to be done.
Does anyone have any questions: Why did I just ask you to record the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 on paper? Wouldn't it be more convenient to directly convert it into Yin Yao and Yang Yao and record it?
I have a reason for this: Don’t think that there are only two types of Yao: Yin Yao and Yang Yao, but there are actually four types.
The four types are: Lao Yin, Shao Yin, Lao Yang, and Shao Yang.
These four kinds of Yao correspond to the four numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9: 6 is Lao Yin, 8 is Shao Yin, 7 is Shao Yang, and 9 is Lao Yang. Take the Yu hexagram just now as an example. If we only look at the dichotomy of Yin and Yang, the composition of this hexagram is: "Yin, Yin, Yin, Yang, Yin, Yin" (the six lines are viewed from bottom to top), But according to this four-part rule, its composition becomes: "Shao Yin, Shao Yin, Lao Yin, Lao Yang, Shao Yin, Shao Yin". (8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8.)
Now it involves an important principle of "The Book of Changes": old age becomes young and remains unchanged.
What is "old"?
This is like a martial arts master making moves. If the first move is too old, he has to change to the second move. Therefore, "old" means that things have reached the end of their development and it is time to change. Therefore, we now draw a new hexagram in the order of the six lines in the Hexagram just now. In this new hexagram, we change the old yin lines in the original Hexagram into yang lines, and change the original old yang lines into yin lines. The Shaoyin Yao and Shaoyang Yao are copied unchanged. Therefore, a new hexagram was created based on the Yu hexagram, which is the Qian hexagram.
In this change, we call the Yu hexagram the original hexagram and the Qian hexagram the changed hexagram. Look, this is where the "change of mind" that we still often talk about in the common saying comes from.
There are changes in hexagrams and Yao changes. Originally, the number in the third line from bottom to top in Yu hexagram was 6, which is Lao Yin, and became the Yang line; the number in the fourth line was 9, which was The old yang becomes yin. Therefore, the third and fourth lines in Yu Gua are both called "bianyao" at this time.
At this point in the calculation, we have come up with the changes in fortune and fortune, and we can finally predict good or bad luck.
It’s not easy!