Since the beginning of human birth, there have been various obsessions with predicting the future, whether it is the tribal period or the feudal period, people will always rack their brains and use various methods to divinate and predict the future. In ancient times, whenever there was such a big event as a war sacrifice, there would be a special person to carry out divination.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were two famous divination masters--- Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, and it is said that the "Push Back Map" jointly made by the two has been deduced to what happened two thousand years later, which mentioned that in a certain ugly year, there will be war outside the wall.
Divination and push back diagrams
The history of human divination has a long history, because the ancient productivity is very low, the ability to resist various disasters is poor, so whether it is poor or rich, people like to have something to do and nothing to count, and the methods of divination in various periods in ancient times are also different, sometimes using turtle shells, sometimes using lottery methods, with zhou easy to deduce, can be described as mysterious to the extreme.
Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang are not legends, and both are recorded in the history books. Yuan and Li were not only proficient in fortune telling, but also studied astronomical calendars and mathematics.
At that time, Li Shimin was not satisfied after creating his own prosperous world, as an emperor, he also thought about knowing the fate of the entire Tang Dynasty and whether the dynasty could survive better. So Li Shimin found Yuan and Li and asked them about the future direction and destiny of the country.
After yuan and Li began to carry out a series of deductions on the national fortunes, it is said that Li Chunfeng was extremely obsessed with the deduction of guaxiang, and even calculated what happened two thousand years later, at this time Yuan Tiangang, who was beside him, began to worry and felt that he had to stop Li Chunfeng's behavior.
Because in Yuan Tiangang's view, predicting the future is a matter of leaking heavenly opportunities, and people can also change their lives against heaven by relying on the results of prediction, so they will inevitably be punished by heaven, and it is not a good thing for the country and the people. So Yuan Tiangang pushed him on the back of Li Chunfeng, stopping the calculus that he had fallen into obsession, so the two people's deduction of the future was named "Pushing Back Map", this book was continuously circulated in later generations, the world lamented its mysteriousness, and people's interpretations of it were also various.
Each of the gua xiang in the "Push back map" does not directly indicate what will happen in the future, but uses a metaphorical and ambiguous language and pictures to imply the reader, which is also the habitual practice of every divinator, because if it is too clear, it will reveal the heavenly opportunity and be punished by heaven.
Push back the circulation of the figure
Legend has it that this "Push Back Map" is that only specific "people with connections" can know the chance, ordinary people can not understand the mystery, and even if they know the mystery, it can not be spread casually, otherwise they will be condemned by heaven. Does this have a feeling of "the emperor's new clothes"?
However, "Pushing back" is not a fairy tale after all, it is a book of prophecy for rulers of all generations, which records sixty gua elephants, each of which represents the events that occurred in a period.
It is said that in the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent ambitious people from using the "Push Back Map" to glimpse the heavenly opportunity and take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, issued an edict to confiscate the "Push Back Map" collected by the people and prohibited it from spreading among the people. However, this book has long been widely available in the folk, and it is difficult to completely ban it for a while.
So Zhao Kuangyin thought of a more damaged move, and he ordered someone to change part of the original "Push Back Map", mixed with some false gua elephants that were made up and made up, and let it circulate to the people. In this way, the folk circulation of the "Push Back Map" is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it is difficult for people to use it to glimpse the heavenly opportunity.
Nowadays, the idealistic "Push back map" in modern society is no longer a banned book, but after all, more than a thousand years have passed since the Tang Dynasty, and there are countless versions of the "push back map" circulating, and the "push back map" that really belongs to Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng may have long been destroyed in the long river of history.
The most widely disseminated and most widely interpreted version of the "Push back map" is the version that Jin Shengsi once annotated, and it is said that it flowed out of the Qing Palace when the eight powers invaded China.
Push back plot and its analysis
Jin Shengsi's annotated version of the "Push back map" has sixty gua elephants, of which the second gua elephant chart shows a basket of plums, the number of plums is no more and no less than exactly twenty-one, representing the twenty-one emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and one of the plums has no rhizome and does not have a "handle", indicating that one of the twenty-one emperors in the Tang Dynasty is a woman.
The third gua elephant in the "Push Back Map" depicts a woman, and the proverb is written as "the sun and the moon are empty", which corresponds to the incident of Wu Zetian usurping Li Tangjiangshan, and Wu Zetian once created a "曌" character after he ascended the throne, which means that the sun and moon should be empty, and renamed himself "Wu Cao".
Another miraculous point is that the Qianling Tomb, the mausoleum chosen by Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng for Wu Zetian, has never been stolen or excavated for thousands of years.
In the thirty-gossip elephant chart of the "Push back map", a deer is drawn outside the door, and everyone on the top is chasing the deer, and Jin Shengsi's annotation is that in the ugly year, the disaster will start outside the gate of the country. The so-called Xin ugly year is 1901, this year the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the traitorous "Xin Ugly Treaty". After that, more and more powers came to divide Up China, which coincided with the ugly year, and there would be chaos outside the door.
However, some people have carefully examined the life of Jin Shengsi, Jin Shengsi was obtained at the age of 14, and he wrote his annotations at the age of 15, which is very suspicious, and the version of "Pushing Back" annotated by Jin Shengsi is likely to be a forgery of later generations.
epilogue
Although the various events on the "Push Back Map" correspond to reality, but this is also the result of posterity looking at the Gua Xiang Chart and the proverb self-supplement, the Gua Xiang does not give a definite answer to the posterity, which is equivalent to a person shooting an arrow on the wall, and then forcibly drawing ten circles around the arrow to say that his arrow skills are superb, which is not trustworthy.
Moreover, there are many versions of the "Push Back Map", and many versions are also made after the historical events shown on the gua xiang, which is the result of the far-fetched attachment of later generations. Today, in the twenty-first century, we should look at things in a more scientific and rigorous way, and we should not accept such a book of idealistic and serious prophetic proverbs.
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