preface

"Dun armour of four volumes, Ming dynasty Cheng Daosheng.New words can be born, haining county, zhejiang province.Life is unknown.Jiajing of Ming dynasty, Wan Linian more number in the book, at the latest to wanli forty-two years (AD 1613), is the book written by the late Ming dynasty.Income in the qing dynasty "ku", after the imperial rare books publishing.

"Dun armour of the meaning of the title, can infer its for the reportSpecial dun armourThe connotations and extended number of art works.Book about theoretical narrative summary of dun armour and comprehensive analysis, can be as a representative of the Ming and qing dun armour works.

Magic home tend to push the origin of dun armour that yellow emperor xuan female, duke of zhou and han zhang ovary.But from the perspective of a dun armour theory to establish truly, may be late to the northern and southern dynasties to complete, has a letter fang dun armour, and ge and the secret of "three yuan dun armour figure" smell the world, continues to develop, the tang dynasty to song dynasty when the development to the climax.In the era of movable represented by Yang Weide, nonyl type theory for ever made a generalization and summarization of the system.But since Chen tuan shao yung unearthed the yi-ology idea of nature and nurture, prompting dun armour theory change. And the Taoism by the method of operator of fusion, and to develop in the direction of bizarre.

Dun armour and LiuRen is mutually, is the emphasis.Dun armour has been used for military, it more more references to the concept of astronomical calendar and season.And on the basis of 9 palace, with three, six obsidian, eight, nine, astrology, depending on its face the situation of the good or ill luck, match with jiugong and operator so that, as a flight from the method of activity.A large amount of reference Taoist character of spells, is a feature of the dun armour kingdoms."Si ku abstract" said: "is the purport about the word, to use strange leap to, very detailed.This life XingNian to theory, refers to by the bureau of onstar grow, its said also not by his books."Book don't take the dun armour operator should be the talk of soldiers, reason for posterity said dun JiaZhe conventional.