How do you use the methods in the I Ching to tell the trigrams?

First, find fifty or fifty-five yarrows. It doesn't matter if you don't have any, toothpicks and matchsticks will work, and I usually use a Go stick. Of course, if you're counting by yourself behind closed doors, you can use whatever you want as long as it's convenient. If you're strong enough, you can also use fifty or fifty-five lead balls to count.

In practice it's really only enough to use up to forty-nine pieces, so if you start out with fifty, take one off; if you start out with fifty-five, take six off.

Now, the first step in the fortune-telling process begins: randomly divide the 49 pieces into left and right groups. Don't underestimate such a simple grouping, it has a very deep symbolic meaning, symbolizing the beginning of chaos, the sky and the earth divided into two. Therefore, these two groups of chess pieces, one group symbolizes the sky, one group symbolizes the earth.

Step 2: With heaven and earth, shouldn't there be someone?

Nice, take away 1 piece from any group (some people say you can only take it from the right group which symbolizes the earth), and this piece symbolizes the human being. In this way, the sky, the earth, and the man, all have, our ancestors call these three things "three talents".

The third step is to count the number of pieces in the group symbolizing the sky, and then divide that number by 4 to see what the remainder is.

There are only four possibilities for the remainder of any number divided by 4: 1, 2, 3, and a whole number.

If we get a whole division, we'll take the remainder to be 4. Okay, now take the remainder away.

For example, if there are 20 pieces in this set a ****, then: 20 ÷ 4 = 5, there is no remainder, so let's take 4 as a remainder and take 4 out of these 20 pieces.

Some people may ask: "Why divide by 4? How unlucky is that number! Why not divide by 8?"

The answer is that it is also symbolic, and 4 here symbolizes the four seasons of the year.

The answer is that it is also symbolic of the four seasons of the year. It seems that the ancients of that era did not consider the number 4 to be unlucky, because the whole process of fortune-telling revolves around 4.

Step 4: The group of pieces symbolizing the earth is also painted in the same way as in step 3, as in step 3.

This is a good example.

For example, the total number of pieces is 49, and 1 piece is taken out to symbolize the person, so: 49-1 = 48.

48 pieces are divided into two groups, the left side of the 20 pieces, the party has already 20 ÷ 4, and take out the 4 pieces as the residual number, there are still 16 pieces left, and the total number of the right side of the group is now: 48 Now the total for the group on the right is: 48 - 20 = 28, well, follow step 3: 28 ÷ 4 = 7, which is still divisible, so take the remainder as 4, and remove 4 pieces from the group on the right.

Now, the total number of pieces on the right is: 28 - 4 = 24.

Step 5: Put the 1 piece used to symbolize the man in step 2, the 4 pieces removed as a remainder in step 3, and the 4 pieces also removed as a remainder in step 4 in a pile. How many pieces are in a ****? It's good: 1 + 4 + 4 = 9.

Note: There are only two ways to get this number in step 5, either 9 or 5, and if you get a number that is neither 9 nor 5, you've made a mistake in one of the previous steps, so start over.

Well, from the first step to the fifth step, this set of movements done, called "a change", meaning "the first set of prescribed actions".

Well, didn't it say in step 5 that all the pieces taken out are "either 9 or 5", so the total number of pieces left after the left and right sets of pieces symbolizing the sky and the earth have been taken out is either 40 or 44.

According to the above example, the left set has 16 pieces left, and the right set has 24 pieces left.

According to the above example, the left group has 16 discs left, the right group has 24 discs left, and the total number of discs left is: 16 + 24 = 40.

From now on, the "first variation" is over, and the "second variation" begins. In other words: the second set of required moves begins.

The first step in the "second variation" is to remix the left and right pieces remaining at the end of the "first variation", and then randomly divide them into two groups.

At the end of the first variation, there were 16 pieces left in the left group and 24 pieces left in the right group, so now they are mixed together, and there are 40 pieces in one ****, and then randomly divided into two groups.

The second step of the "two changes": and the second step of the "one change", from any group to take away 1 piece, we take it as a group from the right to take away 1 it. Okay, again, it's heaven, earth, and man, the three talents.

The third step of the "two changes" is the same as the third step of the "one change", count how many pieces there are in the group symbolizing the sky (the left group), and then divide this number by 4 to see what the remainder is.

Let's assume that there are 13 pieces in this group, the algorithm is: 13 ÷ 4 = 3 with a remainder of 1.

With a remainder of 1, we take away 1 piece from this group.

Now, the number of pieces left in this group is: 13-1 = 12.

The fourth step of the "second variation" is the same as the fourth step of the "first variation".

If the total number of pieces in the group symbolizing the sky is 13, then the total number of pieces in the group symbolizing the earth (the group on the right) is: 40-1-13 = 26.

Reminder: don't forget why you have to "subtract 1". The "1" is the piece that symbolizes the man, which was taken out in the second move.

Now, divide the total number of 26 in the group on the right by 4: 26 ÷ 4 = 6 with a remainder of 2.

According to the usual rule, take 2 pieces out of the 26 in the group on the right.

The group on the right is now left with: 26 - 2 = 24.

The fifth move of the "second variation" is the same as the fifth move of the "first variation", the one piece used to symbolize the man in the second move is taken as a remainder, and the third move is taken as a remainder.

Note: There are only two possible answers at this point, either 4 or 8, and if you come up with a number that is neither 4 nor 8, you've made a mistake, so start over.

In my case, the number is 4. Let's look at how many pieces are left after taking out the two sets of pieces that symbolize the sky and the earth, respectively.

At this point it's time for "three changes", the same way as in the previous "one change" and "two changes". I'll keep it simple this time, and just continue with my example: put the 36 pieces remaining after the "two changes" into a pile, and then randomly divide them into two groups, and then go through the five steps:

"Three changes" of Step 1: Randomly divide the 36 pieces into left and right groups.

The second step of the "three variations" is to remove 1 piece from the right group.

The third step of the "three variations" is to count the number of pieces in the left group of 1*** and divide this number by 4.

Let's assume that the left group of 1*** has 10 pieces, then: 10÷4=2 with a remainder of 2.

Taking away the 2 pieces that are the remainder, there are still 8 pieces (10 - 2) left in this group. pieces (10-2 = 8).

The fourth step of the "three changes" is to count the number of pieces in the group on the right, and divide that number by 4.

The total number of pieces in the group on the right should be 36-1-10 = 25.

Continuing the counting, 25 ÷ 4 = 6: 25 ÷ 4 = 6 with a remainder of 1.

Taking away the one piece that is the remainder, the remaining pieces in the right group are: 25-1 = 24.

Step 5 of the "Three Changes": the remaining pieces in the left and right groups are: 8 + 24 = 32.

We have gone through the "Three Changes". We have gone through the "one change", "two changes", "three changes", the work of fortune-telling has come to an end for the time being.

Now look, my last remaining piece a **** is 32.

Note: After these three processes, there are only 4 final numbers: 24, 28, 32, 36.

Whichever of these 4 numbers you come up with, work a little harder and do a little arithmetic by dividing the number by 4. In my example, the final number is 32, so: 32 ÷ 4 = 8.

At this point, we've finally come up with a number that will be the most important for the future of the game.

This is where we finally got to a line.

We did the math three times, and we came up with a number: 8. We're going to write it down - you take out a piece of paper, and at the bottom of the paper you respectfully write down the number: 8.

But "8", how does this guy look? ", how does this guy look like an Arabic numeral, neither like a yin line nor a yang line, so what kind of line is it?

--Ignoring this question, you can continue to calculate according to the method of "three changes".

How to continue? One word: repeat! --Put all 49 pieces back together again, and then do "one change" again, then "two changes" again, then "three changes" again, and then "three changes" again. "The final number is divided by 4, and the number is put on top of the "8", which completes the second line.

Now there are two questions that need to be addressed. The first is: Why should the new number be recorded on top of the "8"? Why can't it be recorded to the left, right, or below the 8?

The answer is: in a hexagram, the order of the lines is from bottom to top, so the first line you calculate to be placed on the bottom, calculated the second line on the first line of the head of the top of the line, and so on the calculation of the third line, and then placed on the second line of the head of the line, until all six lines are calculated until the completion of the line. This is like building a small six-story building, first building up the first story, then the second, the third, and so on up to the sixth story at the top.

The second question is: what happens to the remainder of the last "divide by 4"?

The answer is: there can't be a remainder, unless you've miscalculated.

As I said earlier, there are only 4 possibilities for the total number of pieces in the left and right groups at the end of each of the "three variations": 24, 28, 32, and 36. Let's divide them up:

24 ÷ 4 = 6

28 ÷ 4 = 7

32 ÷ 4 = 8

36 ÷ 4 = 8

36 ÷ 4 = 8

This is a good example of how to divide by 4

The answer is: there is no remainder unless you make a mistake.

36 ÷ 4 = 9

So, the final number is only 6, 7, 8, 9, which is the only four cases, I just came up with 8, and if you go through another round of "one change", "two changes", "three changes", the number will be the same. If you go through another round of "one change", "two changes", "three changes", the number of points will still not come out of these four cases.

If I hadn't said that it would take more than an hour to figure out a fortune, look, how troublesome it is! After half a day's effort, I just got an "8", which means that I just found the first line of a hexagram.

Calculating the hexagrams, is to calculate a complete hexagram. How many lines make up a complete hexagram?

A complete hexagram is made up of how many lines?

A hexagram is made up of six lines, so since it takes three "changes" to get a line, how many "changes" are needed to get all six lines?

This is too good to be true: 3 x 6 = 18.

Three becomes a line, and eighteen becomes a hexagram.

Attachment: the hexagrams get the position and the center. A hexagram is calculated from bottom to top, 1, 3, 5 is the Yang position, 2, 4, 6 is the Yin position. If the male in the 2nd or 5th line, in the 2nd line is not in the position, not good or bad; in the 5th position in the position and the position, auspicious. For women, the opposite is also true.

7 methods of divination:

1, counted out of the six lines of only one line is a line of change, this time, the hexagrams of the hexagrams of the change lines to determine the good or bad.

2, if there are two lines in the hexagrams change, then the two hexagrams in the hexagrams of the occupation of the words to determine the good and bad, and the location of the upper one of the lines of the occupation of the words of the main.

3, there are three changing lines, you can not use the lines of the changing lines to determine the lines, you have to use the hexagrams and hexagrams of the hexagrams to the hexagrams of the hexagrams of the main.

4, there are four lines, then use the lines of the two unchanged lines of the trigrams to determine the good or bad.

5, there are five changing lines, with the changing of the hexagram of the lines of the unchanged lines to determine the good and bad.

6, there are six lines, which points to two cases. One is six lines are Yang lines (constituting the dry hexagram), or six lines are Yin lines (constituting the Kun Gua), then, if the dry hexagram, with the dry hexagram "with nine" lines to determine the good and bad, if it is the Kun Gua, with the Kun Gua "with six" lines to determine the good and bad. Secondly, in addition to these two cases other than the six lines of the whole case, the hexagrams of the hexagrams to determine the good and bad.

7, one of the six lines did not change, then use the hexagrams of the hexagrams to determine the good or bad.

Well, now pretend to have acted again and again, in turn calculated from the first line to the sixth line, we recorded on paper from the bottom up were six numbers: 8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8.

It is not all Arabic numerals? Does it have anything to do with the yin and yang lines?

Of course it's relevant!

We first give 6, 7, 8, 9 of the four numbers divided into odd and even: 7 and 9 are odd, we call them "Yang"; 6 and 8 are even, we call them "Yin". Specifically to the hexagram lines, 7 and 9 we use the yang lines to indicate, 6 and 8 we use the yin lines to indicate. In this way, the paper from the bottom to the top of the "8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8" can be replaced by the same from the bottom to the top of the "yin, yin, yin, yang, yin, yin, yin, yin," that is:

From "8,9,9,7,7,6" to "yin, yang, yang, yang, yang, yin",

This hexagram has five yin lines, and the fourth line is a yang line, which is drawn as the Yu hexagram.

You can breathe a little sigh of relief that by now we have finally worked out a complete hexagram!

Can you tell your fortune now?

-Not yet. There's still some work to be done.

Is there anyone who would question: why did I just ask you to record the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 on a piece of paper? Wouldn't it have been easier to just convert the yin and yang lines and record them?

I have a reason for this: do not think that the lines of this thing only yin lines and yang lines of two, in fact, is four.

These are: old yin, young yin, old yang, young yang.

The four kinds of lines are and 6, 7, 8, 9 four numbers correspond to each other: 6 is the old yin, 8 is the young yin, 7 is the young yang, 9 is the old yang. Then take the Yu Gua as an example, if only to the yin and yang dichotomy, the composition of this hexagram is: "Yin, Yin, Yin, Yin, Yang, Yin, Yin, Yin" (six lines from the bottom to the top in turn), can be viewed in accordance with this quadrature, its composition becomes: "Shao Yin, Shao Yin, old Yin, old Yang, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less Yin, less yang, less yang, less yang, less yang, less yang, less yang, less yang. Shao Yin." (8, 8, 6, 9, 8, 8.)

Now it comes to an important principle of the Zhouyi: the old changes into the young.

What does "old" mean?

It's like when a martial arts master makes a move, and when the first move gets old, he has to change to the second move. So, "old" means that things have reached the end of their development, and it's time to change. Therefore, we are now in accordance with the six lines of the Yu Gua order to redraw a hexagram, in this new hexagram, the original Yu Gua in the old yin lines into the yang lines, the original old yang lines into the yin lines, and the lesser yin lines and lesser yang lines are copied unchanged. Thus, on the basis of the Yu Gua and produced a new hexagram, this is the humility of the hexagram

In this change, we call the Yu Gua this hexagram, the humility of the hexagram is called a change of hexagram. We are now often said in the colloquialisms "change" is from here.

There is a change of hexagrams and lines, the original Yu Gua from the bottom to the top of the number of the third line is 6, that is, the old yin, into the yang lines; the fourth line of the number is 9, is the old yang, into the yin lines. Therefore, Yu Gua in the third line and the fourth line at this time will be called "change lines".

Acting here, we can finally divine the good and bad luck after arriving at the changing hexagrams and lines.

Yang lines: -; yin lines: --

The calculation is here, we can finally divine good and bad luck. It's not easy!

How do you divine? In fact, the former high people acted here when they have their own say, to the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi and his students Cai Yuanding seriously to do some generalization, summarized seven, we are now encountering this situation belongs to the second of the seven articles: If two lines in the trigrams change, then the two lines in the hexagrams of the two lines of the occupation of the rhetoric to determine the good and bad luck, and to the position of the top of that one of the occupation of the lines of the rhetoric is given priority to.

This is the time to check the "Zhouyi". Turn over the "Zhouyi", we first take the "Yi Chuan" away, look at the "I Ching", this part of the record is all accounted for the rhetoric. What's the "Cham Rhetoric"? --Many people may have begged for a sign in a temple, and there is a kind of sign like this: there is only a number written on the sign, and after you have begged for a certain sign, you have to check it in another place according to the number on the sign, just like checking in a dictionary. First, you find out the word you want to check in the Pinyin checklist, and then you look at the explanation of the word on page 78, and then you turn to the page with the explanation of the word on page 78, and then you turn to the page with the explanation of the word. Then you turn to page 78 of the dictionary to see the specific explanation of the word. --For example, if the sign you ask for says "007", you look for it on one of the walls in the temple where the word is written all over, or you go to one of the senior monks and ask him to look up the tool book and find the corresponding "007", where it will be written. "There will be a few words written there, such as "great luck, promotion and wealth" or something.