Hexagram Explanation ~ Introduction (1)
The two characters' divination came after the Ming Dynasty. It used to be called divination. It was only popular in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Japanese use fifty small bamboo sticks for divination. When you ask for divination, he uses six pieces of wood to divination six times, each time you must put your palms together, take out one of the fifty sticks by the side, and focus your mind. Once you grasp this matter, you must deal with it on both sides. Japan follows the pattern of the Tang Dynasty. After divination, there are a few branches, yin and yang to divide hexagrams and lines, he puts wood on the table, one hexagram after another hexagram, they have no Si or Yon lines to fellow, so they use this directly Gua to explain, but he doesn’t have timeliness either. They don’t set Zi Chou Yin Mao on the left, Zi Yin Chou, Wu Shen Xu, and so on. They don’t have such settings.
In the Shao Kang Jie of the Song Dynasty, he used hexagrams, and in terms of hexagrams, it is called body and follow-up. Many people did not understand what he was talking about, but the more they could not understand, the more they wanted to study it, and they had to understand it. There is one that plum blossoms are easy to do. From my personal point of view, the two ecological differences are too much. One way of expression in Huangji Jingshi's expression and the way that plum blossoms are easy to do are like elementary schools, and the other seems to be dedicated to writing like calculus, there is a big gap. It can be seen whether the Plum Blossom Easy Count was actually written by Shao Kangjie, or if Shao Kangjie’s students respond to the situation, it is not always possible to use the logic of imagination to write.
After the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi was more creative. He believed that the divination and the hexagrams of Zhouyi should be used for divination. There should be time and place. Time contains space. In this universe, you must contain space. If time does not contain space There is no way to quantify this time. Well, after this was passed down, it was a very good time, but it was not spread. Later, because of the death of the Song Dynasty, this method was spread outside, but there are people who have read books outside, and it is easier to understand what Zhu Xi was talking about at that time. So in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, there was an examination system that was admitted to the Song Dynasty at that time, and the Yuan Dynasty also dealt with it. Liu Bowen was a Jinshi in the Yuan Dynasty, with a very high degree. He was responsible for sorting out and sorting out an application of Zhu Xi's divination.
So in fifteen years, this period was very remarkable. In fifteen years, he helped Zhu Yuanzhang proclaim the emperor and was able to build the Forbidden City. In fact, this is Liu Bowen's most remarkable place. But such a great person was finally poisoned to death by Hu Weiyong's medicine. So when you know this kind of thing well, don't be arrogant, because you don't know what others will do to kill you. Well, this research must have a very complete truth. If it does not have a very complete truth, it would not have been passed down from 1000 BC to the present, and it would still allow us to teach here.
I also paid a great price for researching this thing, why? When you are researching this thing, you must know the foundation of its foundation. What kind of foundation was established at that time? Is there any similarity with our current cognition? If there is no similarity, how can it be accurate and how can it be used? It seems that Britain was very successful in launching the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century. Why did it succeed? It can convert mass into energy and energy into kinetic energy. All the factors for success, the invention of the external combustion engine, if there were no such people in the seventeenth century, if there were no such people mass into energy and energy into kinetic energy, I think the industrial revolution would be no use. It takes two years to pick a load of coal before it gets to your home. Will you develop quickly? Impossible! So it must have its basic principles.
So now how we apply its basic principles, we must change it. A method in the Song Dynasty was something that happened more than a thousand years ago. If we continue to use the method more than a thousand years ago, how can we catch up with the times? It’s impossible to use the methods of the previous people if they still use the methods of the previous people. So my previous divination was probably a painful person who came and handled it for him. He went home without suffering. When he had to collect the money, he said it was painful because I had no money to suffer! So I went to the free clinic, and finally I asked a few. I said that I would do six free clinics for you. Why did you not come after the fifth time? He said that it would not be painful anymore, what am I going to do on the sixth ! I keep it for next time, and then go to the free clinic again if I have pain. After the sixth time, I have to collect money, and they won’t come without money.
Liu Bowen made others suffer and made others fail, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could be called the emperor. So why didn't Liu Bowen pass it down, because he was poisoned to death. He wanted to write a book. He originally told Zhu Yuanzhang not to give him any official position. He wanted to go home, his hometown was in Qingtian. There is a street in Taipei City called Qingtian Street, but it is not to commemorate Liu Bowen, but to commemorate Chen Cheng, because Chen Cheng was from Qingtian. In the same hometown as Liu Bowen, I heard that’s how Chiang Kai-shek reused Chen Cheng.
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