Divination originated very early in the primitive society of slash-and-burn farming.
Primitive peoples lacked sufficient understanding of the development of things, so they relied on signs in nature to guide actions. However, natural signs were not common and had to be tested in artificial ways, so the method of divination came into being.
In the beginning, "divination" and "divination" meant different things. "Zhān" (zhān) meant observation and inference, while "divination" (bǔ) meant burning the turtle shell with fire.
When the turtle shell is roasted at high temperature for a long time, cracks will appear, which are called "trails".
In the oracle bone inscriptions, the glyph for " Zhao" is like a cracked pattern.
The ancients observed the shape and direction of cracks, which are the so-called "signs", to judge the unknown and determine good or bad luck.
Of course, this is the most primitive way of divination. It is very crude and has no accuracy. It is more like a way to seek psychological comfort.
The ancient people at that time would have believed that through the sacred process of divination, those inanimate natural objects acquired sacred symbolic meanings, just like the crack shapes presented by turtle shells. They were not the result of man-made efforts, but the revelation and inspiration of gods and God
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Therefore, in primitive societies, divination was more of a ritual, and its results often did not represent the facts.
A few years later, the "Book of Changes" came out, which gave the unfounded divination a theoretical basis, and the methods became diverse, not just limited to burning tortoise shells, such as grass, stones, chess pieces, etc.
Can be used for "divination".
"The Book of Changes" is a classic work with the longest history of the Chinese nation. It is known as the source of the great road, the first of the group of scriptures, and the book of teachings. It has sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines (yáo).
Both hexagrams and lines have explanations, that is, hexagrams and lines, which can be used as the basis and reference for divination.
According to legend, Fu Xi, the head of the Three Emperors, drew the Xiantian Bagua, and King Wen of Zhou evolved it into sixty-four hexagrams and wrote the hexagrams. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' annotations of the "Yi Zhuan" were used to interpret its meaning.
So there was the complete "Book of Changes".
The Book of Changes is an all-encompassing book. It is composed of three saints and three ancients. The Book of Changes was written by three great saints: Fu Xi in ancient times, King Wen of Zhou in the middle ages, and Confucius in ancient times. It has become a wonderful book through the ages.
So what is "easy"?
"Yi" has three meanings: easy, difficult, and simple.
"Change" means change. Nothing in the world is static, and it is even changing every moment, such as the flow of air, the cycle of day and night, flowers blooming and fading, birth, old age, illness and death.
"Not easy" means that it remains unchanged. What changes is the appearance, but the essence remains unchanged. Take water as an example. It is liquid at normal temperature, solid at low temperature, and becomes gaseous when exposed to high temperature. But no matter what it becomes, it is still the same.
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"Simple" means simple and easy. The changes of all things in the universe follow certain laws and principles, and they remain true to their original principles. As long as you can master these laws and see the essence through phenomena, there will no longer be any secrets in everything.
Divination is like this, using small things to understand big things, using small things to see things. It has strict operating procedures and forms its own system. Through the connection between micro and macro, it grasps the commonalities between things to predict and interpret unknown things.
The difference between it and prophecy is that prophecy is a special ability that comes from innate talent or strong mental power acquired through acquired practice. It is often extremely accurate and has unique results.
Divination usually presents ambiguous answers, and it is up to the fortune teller to carefully interpret, deduce and calculate to find a reasonable explanation on their own.
Whether this explanation is correct or not is unknown and is affected by the person’s own knowledge and experience.
In other words, different people will see different results for the same "sign", and it is difficult to tell whether it is right or wrong.
It's like going to a temple to draw lots. It's certain that the lot drawn is "Omen", but if different people interpret the lot, the interpretation will be uncertain.
Therefore, divination is like a word game. The same word has different meanings when placed in different places.
Take the word "行" as an example. It not only has four pronunciations, but also has many meanings.
Such as: business, row, ranking, pedestrian, conduct, conduct, execution...
Many words can be formed using this word "行", but do they have different meanings?
To sum up, divination may or may not be useful, and in most cases, it is somewhere between useful and useless. The key lies in whether it can be interpreted completely and correctly.
Just like the hexagram Ye Xingyu just divined, in his opinion, the only thing that can be confirmed is one thing: if you want to find clues, you must go west.
The rest is hazy and unclear, and no precise and useful hints can be obtained.
As the saying goes, "the secrets of heaven cannot be leaked." It is impossible for a mortal to have a glimpse of the secrets of heaven and see through everything.
What can be leaked are things that have been determined, must happen, and must exist.
The uncertain part will not be shown in the hexagrams. It is unknown and random.
Therefore, that hexagram was not of much help to Ye Xingyu. The interpretation result covered a too large range and did not point out a clearer location at all. Looking westward without any idea was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
Now Ye Xingyu was at his wits end. He wanted to help, but couldn't. He wanted to investigate, but couldn't.
Finally, Ye Xingyu planned to have a face-to-face talk with Su Junzhe to see if he could find out anything.
But who would have thought that before he went to find Su Junzhe, Su Junzhe came by himself.
The doorbell rang for the second time, and there were two people standing in the yard outside, one was Su Junzhe and the other was Liang Han.
Seeing the two of them appearing together, Ye Xingyu probably guessed what he was up to.
Sure enough, it was because of yesterday's conflict with Su Guang? Su Junzhe took the initiative to apologize on behalf of the Su family.
As one of the top ten famous wealthy families in the Tianlong Empire, the Su family is the real giant in Licheng. Originally, there was no need to bow to anyone, but because Su Junzhe mistakenly believed that Ye Xingyu was born in the Bashan Ye family, he had no choice but to
Lower your status and go to the door in person to resolve this grudge.
After getting along with Su Junzhe several times, and from his attitude towards him, Ye Xingyu vaguely guessed that Su Junzhe must have regarded himself as a member of the Ye family, so he was so polite, even if his cousin was broken
Even if you bow your head, you should also say nice things with a smile.
As the saying goes, "Don't hit someone with a smiling face." Ye Xingyu had no ill intentions towards Su Junzhe, and even had some affection for him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have helped him track down the murderer and investigate the case. Of course, he couldn't do it for Su Guang?, at this time.
The quarrel with the Su family made me blush, so as soon as I finished a few words, I dropped the matter and laughed it off.
However, he did not clarify his identity and allowed Su Junzhe to misunderstand.