"Prophecy" is a cryptic word made up by the wizards and alchemists of the Qin and Han Dynasties to predict good and bad luck, which means "prophecy that can be fulfilled in the future." "Weishu" is a freak formed by Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty using theological concepts to interpret Confucian classics. It is the product of the deification of Confucian classics. Like "prophecy", it is a disguised lingo. As more and more people study and study it, it gradually forms an academic school, which is known in history as "the study of prophecy". Among the seven most famous prophetic books in ancient China, it is generally believed that the "Tui Bei Tu" of the Tang Dynasty is the most widely circulated and has the greatest influence.
When I first heard about "Back Rubbing", I thought it was a book about back rubbing. At that time, I was very surprised that a book about "back rubbing" could also be published? Later, I learned from the introduction of a knowledgeable person that this is a book about predicting the rise and fall of national fortunes, which is superior to criticizing horoscopes and looking at Feng Shui. The most commendable thing is that all the prophecies in the book have been fulfilled one by one, and it is said that the subsequent prophecies will be fulfilled one by one.
This surprised me and made me worship. The fulfillment of past events is indeed rare, but that has long since become history; if things in the future can also come true, if we devote ourselves to research and derivation, capture some clues, plan the layout in advance, and "burn the cold stove", wouldn't it be possible to seize the opportunity? The commanding heights of the future, "win at the starting line"? For example, in stock trading, if you can predict which stocks will rise sharply and buy them in advance, wouldn't you be able to make a lot of money? So I was extremely eager to see it, but I didn't know where to buy it.
Once, when I was wandering around a bookstore in the provincial capital, I accidentally caught a glimpse of a book on the bookshelf called "Tuibei Tu". I felt like a sudden burst of rain after a long drought, and I was overjoyed, as if I had found a treasure. After reading it, I found out that this book was written by two strange people from the Tang Dynasty, one named Li Chunfeng and the other Yuan Tiangang. Especially Yuan Tiangang, who is even more famous. I heard that when Wu Zetian was still in her infancy, he predicted that she would "have dragon eyes and a phoenix neck, the most noble person!... She will be the master of the world in the future!" That's ridiculous! Not awesome?
As for the theory of "pushing back", it is even more mysterious. It turned out that Li Chunfeng was so fascinated by the deduction that he forgot to eat, sleep, and forget the time. His colleague Yuan Tiangang was afraid that he would reveal too many secrets, so he pushed his back to ask him to stop. This is "pushing the back." The origin of this is indeed unrelated to the "push back for bathing". The last of the sixty images is evidenced by a poem: "Looking for it in the vast sky, the rise and fall of the world is not free. There are countless countless things to describe, so it is better to push back and go home." It is in harmony with the title of this book and the legend in the previous article.
While sighing, I couldn't help but secretly complain about Yuan Tiangang's meddlesomeness. Since Li Chunfeng had already calculated that it was more than two thousand years later, and was still immersed in the state of "forgetting both things and myself", why not let him continue Continue the deduction. If we extrapolate it for another two or three thousand years, this will not only defeat the Li family's elegance, but also leave more cultural treasures for our vast Chinese prophetic world, making it famous and glorious for thousands of years. What fun? Instead!
With so many miraculous sayings superimposed into one, there is no doubt that "Tui Bei Tu" has become a heavenly book. Reading the contents in the book is really surprising! For thousands of years, whether it is "stems, branches, hexagrams, graphics" or "prophecies and chants" contained in this book, the prophecies are all highly consistent with the truth. For example, in the 32nd image, there is a door in the picture, and there is a horse standing inside the door. If you analyze it a little more carefully, isn't it the word "Chuang"? Combined with the information such as "Li Hua Can" and "Five Colored Flags" in "Ode", it is not difficult to see that this refers to the leader of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty - King Chuang Li Zicheng.
Another example is the thirty-fourth image that predicts the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. There is this word play: "Taiping saw blood flying again, five-color seals became linings and coats, floods surged to the sky, and seedlings were not beautiful. The Central Plains once saw dreams. Quanfei." In this poem, there are three words "Hong, Xiu, Quan" and the word "Taiping". If you try harder, you can still vaguely see the shadow of Zeng Guofan's "Zeng". god! True God! The two great masters Li and Yuan really have unpredictable opportunities!
Even though I was stunned, I still had some doubts that I still couldn’t let go of.
First, Li Chunfeng’s calculation of history more than 2,000 years ago should be regarded as greatly revealing the secret of heaven. How come he was not punished by heaven? Such as dying from a lightning strike, dying from a sudden illness after vomiting three liters of blood, etc. He still lived a very prosperous life, and had "his most numerous works" in academic achievement. He wrote "Book of Jin", "History of the Five Dynasties" and "Book of Sui"; he comprehensively summarized various schools of astrology and wrote "Yi Si Zhan"; he compiled "Ten Books" "Sumu Jing" was used as a mathematics textbook for the Imperial College; it also took 40 years to research and compile a new calendar "Linder Li", which was renamed "Yifeng Li" after it was spread to Japan eastward. And he lived until the age of 68, which was considered a long life in the Tang Dynasty. In the end, he was able to die of his old age. How strange!
Secondly, Yuan Tiangang could predict big things like Wu Zetian becoming emperor in the future, but he couldn't tell small things like whether Wu Zetian was a boy or a girl. Big things are clearly understood, but small things are ignorant. Isn’t it said that all great gods have eyes as bright as a torch and eyes as bright as lightning? Is he wise and foolish, or is he rarely confused? Weird!
Third, as mentioned above, I am an authentic pragmatist, and my original intention of buying this book was to speculate on the future. Now that the second to forty-second signs have all been fulfilled and revealed, there is nothing left to occupy, so we will go straight to the first topic of the future - the forty-third sign. The forty-third image is about "unification of the motherland." One of the poems says: "The black rabbit walked into the Qinglong Cave, and it was indescribable that it would not be able to satisfy its desires.
Only on the outer root tree, descendants will be born within thirty years. "It is generally believed that this image refers to Taiwan's return to the motherland. Literally understood, it should be within thirty years, and the specific year should be the year when the rabbit and the dragon intersect.
So from the beginning Counting from 1976 when the Forty-Two Elephants crushed the "Gang of Four", 30 years later it should be 2006, the Year of the Dog. If the problem is solved before and after the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon according to the "Ode", then it should be moved forward. It was 2000; even if it was delayed by a few years, the problem should be solved in 2012. However, we were all disappointed. In this way, I began to wonder whether this "pushed back" book was as magical as the legend said. . But on the other hand, if ordinary people like us can understand the "divine secrets", wouldn't it mean that "the world is full of gods and Buddhas, and there are as many immortals as dogs". It seems that we really don't understand the world of gods.
Then Jin Shengtan, a great talent in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, should understand! Jin Shengtan is the ancestor of book criticism. In the past, I only knew that he had criticized "Water Margin", but I didn't know that he was also a multi-disciplinary generalist who could actually do it. Annotation of "Tui Bei Tu" However, the Heavenly Book is the Heavenly Book, and the secrets of the future are not accurate. The first image to the thirty-third image are all the history that happened in Jin Shengtan's time. Comparing historical facts and searching for pictures, Jin Shengtan's analysis has some mistakes, but most of them are reliable; but for him, the last twenty-seven images are prophecies of the future, with every step and every word mysterious, so most of them he understands. The crack is wrong. Therefore, we can only lament again that even the great talents in the world of gods cannot understand it!
It seems that prophecy itself is a mysterious and mysterious thing, which has direct access to the secrets of heaven. Your inability to understand it can only mean that you have low understanding and poor qualifications, but it does not hinder its truth and correctness. However, it is vague, ambiguous, and specious, and the more brilliant it is, this is the Chinese prophet. Foreigners are not good at this. The predictions are too straightforward, and if they go wrong, they will be doomed. For example, the Mayans insist that human civilization will be destroyed on December 21, 2012, and they are so clear and specific. , there was no room for maneuver, and they were slapped in the face; it is also said that the French built the Maginot Line based on the prophecies of Nostradamus's "Centuries". As a result, the German army did not attack from here frontally, but passed through Belgium took a roundabout approach and attacked its rear, only to be slapped in the face again.
I recently read Mr. Lu Xun's essay "Destiny" and I was surprised to find that there were many speculators in history who hoped to pass through. "Tui Bei Tu" to change one's destiny. During the Five Dynasties, many people, especially those in the Wuyue area, also named their children according to these pictures, hoping to bring good luck in the future. Until Song Taizu was afraid of affecting the rule of the dynasty, he changed the old version. "Tuibei Tu" was revised, and except for the various images that had been fulfilled at that time, the order of the subsequent images was reversed, and many new versions were produced and circulated among the people. The order of various new versions that you can see is different. It was the same, but the key was that it was not very effective, so I gave up collecting it. But even so, until September 18th, Shanghai was still selling new copies of "Tui Bei Tu". This is probably a little psychological comfort in an attempt to seek God's blessing during the national crisis.
I often think that since Song Taizu can edit it, then Yuan Taizu, Ming Chengzu, Qing Taizong and so on can naturally edit it; by extension, some private printing houses are motivated by profit. It is possible to make revisions. After all, there was no publishing bureau control in the past, and there was no need to purchase a ISBN. It seems that not only the order may be reversed, but it may even be re-created according to one's own imagination. In this regard, the Chinese are not lacking in imagination and creativity. The history behind you is certainly elusive, but the history before you is real. Based on the existing historical facts, coupled with your own understanding and creativity, it is entirely possible to create a new version of the popular "Tui Bei Tu". Aren’t the Four Great Classics created by standing on the shoulders of their predecessors? Although the "Tui Bei Tu" in the Jin Dynasty edition is said to be a secret collection of the Qing Dynasty, it is unknown that it is not a re-creation.
I am not a skeptic, a conspiracy theorist, nor a historical nihilist. I respect the existing historical facts. What I question is the authenticity of the prophetic book "Tuibei Tu". The version of "Tui Bei Tu" that I have seen now has added a lot of new content, such as the overthrow of the imperial system, World War I (rushing out of the country and going global), the Japanese invasion of China, ten years of turmoil, etc. All the hexagrams, pictures, and prophecies are closely linked and highly consistent with the historical facts. They are like a mirror reflecting history.
When things go awry, there will be monsters, and predictions that are too precise will appear unrealistic. The celestial phenomena are vast and far away, and they move forward in cycles all the time. Through the smoke and clouds of history for more than a thousand years, how could China's national destiny, which has been affected by wars, famines, natural disasters, floods, man-made disasters and many other factors, be predicted so accurately without deviating from the established track at all. "Understanding the true meaning of circulation" is a macroscopic understanding of using the theory of yin and yang to push and rotate to explore the mysteries and operating laws of things.
But inevitable things often develop through endless accidental events. If you want to understand the accidental events that will happen thousands of years later, it should be a kind of illusion anyway!