Divination (12) Elements that form a hexagram ( 1)
Gua divination must have several conditions. Only when those conditions are generated can it be able to produce this hexagram. For so long, from the beginning of Fuxi's drawing of Gua to the Zhou Dynasty, it completed a Zhouyi, but the Zhouyi expressed it, no one who came out wanted to really apply it, so Master Confucius wrote Zhouyi with a very well-known axiom. This axiom represents the principle of being a person, and the principle of being a leader is expressed by the things of the Zhouyi. Continuing, especially in the Han Dynasty, from the standpoint of Confucianism, when the emperor entered the imperial palace and the places that the emperor could influence, he could learn the Yijing, otherwise he could not learn the Yijing. Learning the Book of Changes must talk about these principles of being an official and an executive. Zhu Xi, who evolved to the Song Dynasty, thought it was a divination. It could predict the future. He could speak about it but he did not know how.
In fact, Zhu Xi only set up this theory, he could not divination. The real divination is by whom we Han Chinese are forced out? He was forced out by the people of the Yuan Dynasty using Zhu Xi's thinking. Why? Genghis Khan conquered the whole world, it’s terrible, so you have no way to deal with him in the whole land of China. You have to use the method of Zhu Xi's divination to escape, not how to fight against the people of the Yuan Dynasty, but how to escape. Don’t kill him. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty has really ruled the entire Han people for only 86 years. What can the Han people rely on without weapons? Everyone in the Yuan Dynasty eats either beef or horse meat or mutton. People in the Han Dynasty are poor and have nothing to eat. It is best to ask you to be vegetarian every day. I chanted the scriptures every day, but they didn’t expect to use this trick to escape a lot, so Zhu Yuanzhang used it. The best of Zhu Yuanzhang’s divination was Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), and it was this way that he established a huge Ming Dynasty government. Has Lu Bowen passed it down? No, so Liu Bowen suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang should be in Nanjing. He did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son to die earlier than Zhu Yuanzhang, so when Zhu Yuanzhang died, because of their family rules, Da Ming law, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's family rules, and his family rules say if the heir dies, the heir will give it to the eldest son. Therefore, when Emperor Minghui came up, Zhu Li couldn’t stand it. It was Zhu Yuanzhang’s son. Emperor Minghui was so stupid that he was caught by the people next to him. Just like A Dou, how could he be held back by others? So Zhu Li revolutionized. Of course Zhu Li revolutionized and has a relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang youngest concubine, because she supplies the information in the palace. This group of people are all in Nanjing, so they demolished the Forbidden City and moved to Beijing. According to Liu Bowen’s model, they moved to Beijing, built the city of Beijing while collecting all the information, so it is the most remarkable and capable of gathering all of the Han culture. The one who got up was Zhu Li, including Zheng He's voyages to the West also was Zhu Li, including a type of shipbuilding.
Many historians are studying how Zheng He can go to the West. What does he rely on? Many people think that it is very simple to rely on the compass. I tell you that he relies on divination. He can sail all the way to Africa. Now the African clan still has the bowl of Ming Dynasty. That is incredible. Therefore, the entire process of Zheng He's voyage to the West was hundreds of years later than Columbus's discovery of the New World.
So why does this concept come into being today? Because the ruler doesn't want you to be able to divination, you can divination, let you know what color my underwear wears, that's fine. So at that time, Zhu Li thought that it’s best not to give such a good thing to the folks. If I give it to the folks, I would have something else. It’s quite remarkable that there is nothing in it. The only thing is to pass down our hexagram, a cultural book on how to divination, called it “The Yongle Dadian” was very famous at the time, but it is a pity that Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu was a reprint of the Yongle Dadian, plus some knowledge from Zhu Li and then added to the Siku Quanshu. There are a total of three Siku Quanshu. Then of course one is placed in Wenyuan Pavilion in Beijing, one is placed in Xi'an, the other one is placed in the Old Summer Palace, and the Yongle DaDian is also placed in the Old Summer Palace. Then the Old Summer Palace was burned during the Eight-Nation Alliance, so the Yongle DaDian was gone.
Because Xuantong announced his abdication in the third year, but the military and government in the north included the southern government. When Xuantong abdicated, the National Government still had not appeared yet. This history is very important. Although there is the Republic of China, where is the government? The Marshal's Mansion in Guangzhou. The Republic of China at that time was not in Nanjing, but in the Marshal's Mansion in Guangzhou. When you come to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the most important thing is to see the Marshal's Mansion in Guangzhou. You must go to see it. Chen Jiongming's rebellion was to bombard the Marshal's Mansion. Sun Yat-sen was in it at that time.
Why should I tell this story? Because why did Mao Zedong win every fight? He wants to join the Kuomintang, how can he join it? He went to Chen Gongbo’s wife, Chen Junbi, introduced Wang Jingwei, and then introduced Sun Yat-sen. So in the first National KMT National Congress, he was nominated to run for the Central Committee member. He did it step by step with Gua without losses. Well, the source of this information, as far as I know, was recorded in the past, but this record is not allowed to be distributed in mainland China, so it was at the end of the Cultural Revolution, I don’t know how to get it, about Mao Zedong entering the Kuomintang published by the Liming Book Office of the Ministry of National Defense, there are very big narratives. It is written that every time the most tense juncture Mao Zedong has to divination, but Mao Zedong never talks about it. Like Zhu Li, Zhu Di can cross east, west, south and north through divination.
Fortunately, people who know how to divination come to Taiwan, otherwise the people who know how to divination during the Cultural Revolution will probably be removed. People who know how to divination must be stunned. So during the Cultural Revolution, his grandfather passed it to him as a whole. His children pretended not to know it. His grandfather was killed by the struggle. After the reform and opening up, he has been training. After Hu Jintao took over, he thought the whole country's policy is positioned, it must be restored to a certain culture. Therefore, many antique auctions nowadays are beyond imagination. The People's Republic of China took the money to buy them. As long as there are Chinese things in all parts of the world, they are all snapped up.
