Flying Stars in Mysterious Sky and Nine System Mathematics
First of all, let me ask a question - under what circumstances does 7 plus 8 equal 16?
This is not a sketch about Zhao Benshan fooling Fan Wei, but a serious talk about mathematics. The correct answer is - in nine-base mathematics, 7 plus 8 equals 16!
Commonly used decimal mathematics has ten basic number symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. (Note! There is no "ten" in the basic decimal number symbol. Ten is 1 and
0 is composed of two numbers, indicating that every tenth is carried, and the mantissa is 0.)
In the nine-base mathematics, there are nine basic number symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. (Note! There is no "nine" in the basic number symbols of the nine-base system. Nine is
Equal to 10, it means carrying every nine, and the mantissa is 0.)
Then the decimal natural number sequence is: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20...
The natural number sequence in base nine is: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22…
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So in base 9 math, 7+8=16
It is said that the nine-digit system of mathematics is mentioned in the "Related Essays" of the book "Earth Master", which is of course related to the traditional Chinese Feng Shui. Ancient earth masters must study traditional metaphysics, and the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams are always spoken. It sounds like
It's very mysterious. But from the perspective of "numerology", they represent the nine-base and binary expressions respectively.
The "Book of Changes" contains the principle of binary mathematics, which has long been known to everyone. The arrangement of the innate hexagrams is the carry diagram of binary mathematics. Only the simplest two symbols "Yin" and "Yang" are used (modern mathematics
The language uses 0 and 1) to express everything in the world, which is also the basis of modern computer programming languages.
Modern people do not know that in addition to binary mathematics in ancient China, there was also a nine-digit system. The most typical application is the "Nine Palaces and Stars Method" of Xuankong School Feng Shui masters. Here is an introduction to the major schools of Feng Shui -
Since ancient times, there have been two major categories of Feng Shui: Situation School and Liqi School.
The Situation School attaches great importance to dragons, caves, sand, and water, and mainly focuses on topography, changes in landforms, and the study and judgment of the direction of dragon veins in Feng Shui. Although its system is complex, it is not difficult to explain to laymen because its expression is very intuitive and can even be used
Sand table model is used to demonstrate. The branch schools of Situation School include Luantou School, Image School, Xingfa School, etc.
On the basis of Feng Shui sand caves, the Li Qi School introduced the contents of classical numerology, including metaphysics such as Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Eight Diagrams, Nine Palaces, etc., with special emphasis on abstract deductions such as Yuan Yun and orientation. The branch schools of the Li Qi School include the Sanhe School,
The Eight Houses School, the Xuankong School, etc. Among them, the system of the Xuankong School is the most complicated, and its most important theory is the Nine Palaces Star Method, which needs to be explained from the beginning——
The official name of the Nine Palaces Diagram is "Luo Shu", which may be familiar to everyone. Its formula is "Wear nine shoes, three on the left and seven on the right, two and four are shoulders, six and eight are feet", and the numbers are arranged as follows:
Four, nine, two
three, five, seven
Eight, one, six (Picture 1)
If you draw a picture, there are three rows and three columns with nine grids in total, which is called Jiugong grid. Regardless of the arrangement of Luo Shu, viewed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, the sum of the three numbers is equal to fifteen (decimal system), which is in Xuankong Feng Shui
The status is very important and is called the "New Year's Day Chart". Based on it, it involves the rotation of the Yuan Yun and the transformation of the Nine Palaces.
The so-called Yuan Yun refers to the theory of "Three Yuans and Nine Yuns". Twenty years is a movement of the earth's energy, and one hundred and eighty years is a small cycle. There are nine movements in total, represented by nine stars, which are: One White Greed.
Wolf, Erhei Jumen, Sanbi Lucun, Silu Wenqu, Wuhuang Lianzhen, Liubai Wuqu, Qichi Pojun, Babai Zuofu, Jiuzi Youbi. For example, from 2004 to 2024, it is Babai Zuo
The auxiliary star is in command.
The first step for the Xuan Kong School to look at Feng Shui is to draw a "luck chart". The so-called fortune chart means that on the basis of the New Year's Day chart, when the star enters the middle palace, the other eight stars change their positions according to certain rules, and each star flies to
For each palace, this pattern is called "flying star". For example, now that the eight white left auxiliary star is in season, the number "eight" appears in the center of the nine-square grid, so how do other numbers change? I won't explain it for now, the diagram is as follows
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seven, three, five
Six, eight, one
Two, four, nine (Picture 2)
Compare the New Year's Day chart (Picture 1), do you see any pattern? You can use a pen to do a simple calculation. Some people may have seen it, and some may not understand it yet. This is the current fortune chart drawn by Xuan Kong Feng Shui theory.
If someone claims to be a Li-Qi Feng Shui master, but cannot draw the fortune chart or draws it wrong, he must be a fake person who is fooling around.
It’s also liar, but there’s a difference between real liar and blind liar (laughing), just like charlatanism not only has “inside”, but also “point”. The inside refers to the method, which is similar to business experience, which method is used to figure out people’s psychology.
Only in order to achieve the goal; the pointed point refers to true skills, real kung fu or knowledge.
I’m going to leave this aside for the time being and not explain the simplest mathematical logic. Let’s look at how the “flying star” law is explained in the public Feng Shui classics? It’s very complicated! Let’s first introduce the Bagua directions. The Bagua directions can be divided into innate and acquired.
The main ones used in the Feng Shui compass are the acquired Bagua directions, which are arranged as follows -
Xun, Li, Kun
earthquake, middle, exchange
Gen, Hom, Qian (Figure 3)
The direction it represents is exactly the opposite of that of modern maps, which is up, south, north, left, east, and right. The trajectory of the nine palace flying stars is: Zhonggong - Qiangong - Duigong - Gengong - Ligong - Kangong - Kungong - Zhengong
- Xun Palace - Zhong Palace. This is the "Shun Fei Star", and the line of the "Reverse Fei Star" is just the opposite. If you change according to this line, the eight white left auxiliary stars in Pan Gen Palace on New Year's Day will enter the middle palace, and the other eight will enter the middle palace.
The star will also enter the corresponding position in the chart of "Figure 2".
Isn’t it very complicated? It can make people faint! Readers don’t need to delve into it, it can be understood as a background. The "Nine Palaces of Stars" has been a threshold for learning Xuankong Feng Shui since ancient times. Some people even say, "If you have to fight with stars in the morning, you can use them in the evening."
"Can become an earthly immortal" is used to describe the complexity of the method. In the age before computers, it was really not something that ordinary people could do by deducing the transformation of the nine palaces in their mind!
If you follow this method, you can clearly calculate the various changes in the Feng Shui Bureau in a single thought, which is probably the state of the "Heart Pan Technique" described in this book.
But to put it bluntly, this problem is not difficult to solve, as long as the mathematical principles of the nine-base system are used. First, modify the New Year's Day disk "Luo Shu" (Figure 1) to the nine-base expression (note that "Nine" is expressed as 10
)——
04,10,02
03,05,07
08,01,06(Picture 4)
If "08" enters the position of the middle palace, it is equivalent to adding 3 to the original "05" of the middle palace, then all numbers will also add 3, and calculated in base nine, then the nine-square grid will become like this -
07,13,05
06,08,11
12,04,10(Figure 5)
Take the mantissa and look again——
seven, three, five
Six, eight, one
Two, four, nine (Picture 6)
This is exactly the fortune arrangement deduced by "Figure 2"! At this point, I am afraid that all readers can basically understand it. The following content is a little more complicated. The Xuankong School Feng Shui master not only has to draw "luck" to test the earth's energy.
"Pan", it is also necessary to draw the "Mountain Pan" and the "Direction Pan" respectively based on the movement chart and combined with the specific layout of Yin and Yang House.
I won’t go into details about the specific process. This is just an introduction to the mathematical principles of the nine-digit system, not a professional lecture on Feng Shui. Just give an example. If there is a house now, the backer (Xuanwu position) faces north (Kan Palace), and the court case (Suzaku)
Sitting) faces south (leaving the palace), that is, it is common to sit north and face south.
Then the "Mountain Pan" is to fly the "Four Green Wenqu Star" from the Kan Palace into the middle palace. Because the position of "Four" in the New Year's Day chart is Yang (just understand it, the principle is omitted), transform according to the "Zheng Feixing"
, the mountain plate is as follows——
Three, eight, one
two, four, six
Seven, nine, five (Picture 7)
If the nine-base calculation is used, the "eight" in the palace in the fortune chart becomes "four", then four is subtracted from all the numbers, and the mantissas are used to arrange them, and the above-mentioned "mountain disk" is obtained.
The "direction disk" is to fly the "Three Bilu Cunxing" from the left palace into the middle palace. Because the position of "three" in the New Year's Day chart is yin, according to the Feng Shui theory, it is transformed according to the "reverse flying star". The direction disk is as follows
——
Four, eight, six
five, three, one
Nine, seven, two (Picture 8)
Some people may be confused after seeing this. If according to the above-mentioned nine-digit calculation principle, "three" enters the middle palace, which is equivalent to subtracting five from all the numbers in the fortune chart (Figure 6), then the nine-house arrangement should be like this.
right--
two, seven, nine
one, three, five
Six, eight, four (Picture 9)
Don't worry, carefully compare "Figure 8" and "Figure 9" and you will find that their relationship is rotated 180 degrees on the plane! The problem is completely clear. The so-called mysterious sky flying star theory is based on Luo Shu.
On the basic nine-square grid, perform nine-digit arithmetic. The so-called "shun flying star" is a simple addition and subtraction, and the so-called "reverse flying star" is a 180-degree rotation based on the addition and subtraction.
At this point, we can draw a definite conclusion: in ancient Chinese metaphysics, there are not only binary mathematical principles, but also the geometric application of the nine-base system.
The subject matter of the book "Earth Master" involves traditional Feng Shui. As the author, I should also know the relevant background knowledge, so before starting the book, I also studied various schools of Feng Shui theory. The stack of materials I read was almost a foot thick.
.During this period, I was deeply aware of the complexity and tediousness of the Xuan Kong Flying Star theory, which made my head spin!
I was dizzy for several days. One time when I was mentally calculating the trajectory of the meteor in front of the Nine Palaces Diagram, I suddenly slapped my head - it turned out that it was nine-digit mathematics, and I almost got caught in it! This slap was very hard, and I almost got caught in it!
My head hurt, and then I suddenly became enlightened.
This problem has been solved, but another doubt has been added to my mind. Since it is so simple to use nine-digit mathematics to solve the transformation of Xuankong Feixing Nine Palaces, it is almost clear at one point, then why have Feng Shui masters not taught their disciples this way since ancient times?
, but to teach the complicated and complicated, giving people a headache just looking at the direct and reverse meteor trajectory chart?
Is it because no one realizes the mathematical principle of the nine-digit system in the Nine Palace Transformation? The people who created this theory in ancient times must have designed it based on this principle. There is no doubt about it! But what about the future generations of Feng Shui masters who learn and use it? From
Among the Feng Shui works that have been circulated publicly from ancient times to the present, including various publications today, no one has ever mentioned the mathematical principles of the nine-digit system.
It is understandable that ordinary sorcerers have not discovered the key. If someone like Chen Tuan, the great master of regulating qi, has not discovered it, it is simply impossible! Why didn't you say it? Could it be that you think this question is too simple?
It’s worth saying, will qualified successors naturally understand?
Thinking about it from another angle, there may be several reasons for this situation due to historical transmission:
The first possibility is to train and test the disciples. As mentioned above, if you follow the traditional method of flying stars in the sky, you see a certain Feng Shui bureau, and when the compass turns, you can calculate the fortune, mountain, and direction in your mind.
Arrangement, the person's thinking ability is definitely extraordinary. It may be due to high talent, or it may be the result of long-term exercise. The level of mental concentration, memory, spatial structure visualization ability, and mental arithmetic ability are all very strong!
In the past, Feng Shui masters did not go up the mountain with their laptops, nor did they have a pile of reference materials at hand like me to consult at any time. They usually only carried a compass. Nowadays, many losers who stay at home all day long may have a hard time imagining the world.
What is the status of a "capable person" in the film?
Let’s not talk about Mr. Feng Shui. When I was a child, I knew an old man who had been telling storytelling since before liberation. He never went to school and was not literate at all, but he could write long tomes such as "Shuo Yue", "Three Kingdoms" and "Yang Family General".
He memorized it all, and the story from beginning to end was full of wit and humor. He learned these from his master when he was a child. He is just an ordinary storyteller. Don't be surprised, this was what people relied on for their livelihood back then.
For example, the actual use of the traditional theory of flying stars in the mysterious sky may not be important. It may be just a screening threshold. If the apprentice is not talented and is unwilling to work hard, then he should simply not eat this bowl of rice and he will not be able to learn it.
Jianghu art is all about threshold. No matter how many superstitious or scientific elements it contains, the system itself is complex enough, and it is not easy to master and use it.
After a Feng Shui master has mastered the "Nine Palaces and Stars Technique", one day he may suddenly realize the simple principles of mathematics like I did today. At that time, he will think about his own experience and continue in the traditional way of inheriting from his master.
Train and test the disciples. Whether the disciples will be able to realize it in the future depends on their understanding.
Secondly, there is another possibility, which involves the saying that has been circulated in the world since ancient times: "A true message is passed down, but a false message is sent to thousands of books!"
The theory of flying stars in the mysterious sky, which is so complex and cumbersome on the surface, gives researchers a headache. If the principle of nine-digit mathematics is used, it can be solved in one sentence. It seems so simple. Just such a sentence has been used since ancient times.
It cannot be found in the circulating Feng Shui classics.
The principles of some things are very simple when explained clearly, but it is not easy for people to summarize and discover by themselves without explaining it clearly. People are always easily trapped by their habitual thinking patterns and cannot jump out. After thinking about it, I sighed and felt a little bit confused.
The ancients had a dark feeling, as if they heard a voice from thousands of years ago having fun.
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(Author's statement: I am not a Feng Shui master. I just studied some traditional Chinese Feng Shui theories in order to write the novel "The Earth Master". Readers do not need to ask me to read Feng Shui, study Feng Shui, etc., haha, the novel is a novel
, don’t talk about mystery outside the book.
In addition, it is certainly an exaggeration to say that the conclusion of this article is a research "result", but after all, it is a personal study experience. The original article was first published on February 25, 2010. I hope that some people in the world will not rely on hindsight and use this set of conclusions to make their own mistakes.
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