In ancient times, when marching and fighting, generals often asked high-ranking people to divinate in advance on the battle or timing, which is often seen in many film and television dramas, such as Zhuge Liang, Xu Maogong and other well-known military masters, who are familiar with divination. Divination, the earliest way is to use natural spiritual objects as tools, the more common are turtle shells, yarrow, ox bones and so on. For example, the founder of "Zhou Yi", Zhou Wen Wang Jichang, used yarrow, and deduced 64 gua with it to divinate future events.
Film and television stills of ancient marching and fighting (pictured)
Divination (divination activities) not only appears in the military, but also in the trivialities of life, in short, it is a means of predicting the future auspiciousness. King Wen of Zhou's Zhou Yi was considered early, and later developed into the Six Dynasties period, and divination developed to a new stage, marked by the appearance of the "Twelve Spirit Chess Bu".
Zhang Liang film and television image stills (photo)
So what is the "Twelve Spirit Chess"? And listened to The Repentance continues: "Twelve Spirit Chess Bu" According to the "Alien Garden" written by Liu Jingshu of the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty: "The Twelve Chess Bu, from Zhang Wencheng, was trained by the Huangshi Gong, and used the army to do the same. Captured to Dongfang Shuo, secretly occupied the affairs of the people, and since then, the secret has not been passed on. Jinning KangChu Xiangcheng Temple Fa taste people suddenly saw a husband, wearing a yellow leather coat, bamboo tube to hold this book, in order to teach the taste of the Fa, nothing, lost. Thus it was revived. From the text, it can be seen that the key figure of this "Twelve Spirit Chess" is Huang Shigong.
"The Twelve Spirit Chess Pieces are simply twelve pieces, one side of which lists the words "upper and lower", and the other side is trowel, which are arranged into twelve months and four seasons, respectively, and so on. The chess pieces are then thrown at will to make them into a gua, and the fortune teller can predict the auspiciousness by examining the words and annotations in the Lingqi Sutra according to the gua xiang. ”
Oriental Shuo film and television image stills (photo)
According to legend, this method was taught to Zhang Liang by The Duke of Huangshi, and Zhang Liang used this divination technique to help Liu Bang march and fight, and he could be said to be accurate in predicting how ji ji would be, and he never lost his hand. This method was first used in military affairs, and then gradually popular in the folk, and when it was transmitted to The Oriental Shuo, the law was already quite famous, at this time the Oriental Shuo also used this method to divinate the trivialities of the people's lives, the spiritual experience is very good, so that the mystery of the Oriental Shuo in the folk is more powerful, so that the people respect it more mythological, and finally the Oriental Shuo also became the immortal who can steal the queen mother's peach. But then this technique was no longer passed on, just a secret transmission. Of course, Zhang Liang was also passed on by posterity and became a god, and in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong was returned to the Tang monk by Zhang Liang's deeds to continue to protect him! (Text: Pan Xiexi)