The ancients of theThe I ching"Really believe that?

Many things are origin, the zhouyi as the same.Is there not a sudden one day who saint write a zhouyi, swept the country then all of a sudden, everyone began to take this thing to tell fortune.

Seen "mencius," he said, "the reader should recall, shang dynasty is the most believe destiny spirits, always have to make a, Yin ruins unearthed so much oracle mostly are various record their fortune.And life of the shang dynasty zhou are different, don't believe what destiny really exist, much believe in fate is master in his own hands.However, the founding of the zhou dynasty rulers are tricky, they repeatedly told by his own people, say what destiny this trifle dubious, to really have a destiny, or not reliably, so a good politics is the most important;But their foreign people, especially to the survival of the past shang dynasty young diehard had emphasized the mandate of heaven, this let posterity how see how to think like a stultifying political means.

So, to really say zhou dynasty's founding giants are what make the zhouyi, think on this thing will be able to predict good or ill luck, discern the mandate of heaven, he will have to calculate as, how the truth about how all doesn't make sense.

Also, is there any one will pay attention to the question: why is the shang people with divination oracle bone, and by the ers zhouyi to here?

- the answer is simple: as above, just to say money sticks replaced the yarrow, the zhouyi as probably it is actually a simplified form of oracle bone divination.(although the emergence of yarrow could earlier than oracle bone, but at least in the shang dynasty oracle bone divination is the society in general.)Moreover, even in the zhou dynasty, professional soothsayers have used tortoise shell, amateur in yi jing.

Why is this so?

First, the ancients thoughtThe tortoiseIs spiritual, and divination with turtles are almost became the essence of that kind of, high value, not the big aristocrat cannot play it.Can't afford to play the big turtle who also want to calculate fortune-telling, that how to do?Is there any substitute for superior quality and competitive price?As we modern people, want to have a villa, but can't afford to buy a real noble level in the traditional sense of the villa (hardware facilities, single is the servant was a row), how to do?Can buy a townhouse, although the neighborhood and you only of one wall lie between, but this somehow said out and villa.Ancient and modern culture, the ancient people can't afford to play the big turtle, take grass stick to when substitute, but the form of fortune-telling and rhetoric or imitate the tortoise shell.- this is also consistent, like the recent news reports on the social bad style often, grave burn was burned on the villa and mistresses, made of paper.In fact this is natural, is nothing more than the lower layer to the upper cheap imitation, don't burn the villa also burn economy applicable room?- so, if we look at oracle, slightly to understand the zhouyi will help a lot.Later I will mention one example, no archaeological discovery of the oracle, who lived in ages past on the text of zhouyi had extremely classic misunderstanding, built on a misunderstanding of philosophy thought influenced many dynasties in China!

Besides, the big turtle.The big turtle are more spiritual than grass stick, that should be easy to understand?Also don't say big tortoise, when the ancients think animals are more spiritual than plants, for example, a dog are more spiritual than a flower, well, this also is not hard to understand?

The second point is that oracle bone divination method is very complicated, though the method also already cannot take an examination of now, but we can know from the relevant records, oracle bone divination method is more complicated than the "book of changes" many, many, of broken words is much more than the "book of changes".Oracle bone divination is in the charge of special officials, these people all my life all in this research, professional, for others to set a very high technical barriers to enter the profession.Natural, ordinary people can not reach such a high professional level, in the face of high technical barriers to pause, then what can we do, don't give up, of course not, find a cheaper alternative bai - a find found the yi jing.

So, the general recognition of the zhou dynasty society is:

Oracle bone divination is professional, yi jing as an amateur;Oracle bone divination is more reliable, "the book of changes" as reliability is low.

Ok, finished all of the bedding, we should enter one specific case.

"Zuo Xi public four years"

Early, duke for le ji for lady, ab, not auspicious;Divinatory,;.Male: "from the divinatory.;"

Man yue: "divinatory short; turtle long as from long.And its freedom yue: "part of chongqing, buzzing 羭 of male.A is a health, ten years is still bad.Will not."

, in the listening to it.Born prince xiqi of jin, its her ZhuoZi.

And will make prince xiqi of jin, both with the doctor, she refers to architectural yue: "your dream qi jiang, will offerings."

Architectural offerings at times, be 胙 in the public.Public field, she left the house 6.Altogether, poison and sacrifice.The symbol of the land, to the grave.With the dog, dog.With the small, small I also die.Ji qi yue: "a thief by architectural."

Architectural running of the new town.And kill its Fu Duyuan.

Or "architectural:" son, you will be able to contend."Architectural yue: "gentleman not JiShi, ju, eat not to dullness.I quit, she will be guilty.Your too old, I again not happy."

Yue: "son walk!"Architectural yue: "you don't test their sin, by the name also to the people who, me?"

E ", December until DE.JiSui she's second sun yue: "know."Chong 'er rush rush.I ran flexion.

Duke xian of the male to make le ji for a lady.This is a life-changing event, must be treated with caution.

Le she would become a great king's wife?Alas, who knows!

Someone will say: "big duke and le ji are the eight words not finished?"

But it's in the spring and autumn period, the exquisite yet.By this time also in the popular big turtle?

Encounter this, will satisfy, let turtle divination.So boring and burn, very not easy divination results came out: "not auspicious!"

If you, in this case?- since the turtle said "no", then it aside.

However, if le ji is of a great beauty?

Duke and now I'm afraid of is this: listen to the tortoise, or listen to the hormone, that is a question!

Pressure to produce power, duke xian of the public mind: divination again, this time without the tortoise, switch to yarrow!

Duke and may fear is "a pen to write out two" turtle "word", the tortoise is a group of, must change the guy again divination.

Yarrow divination is the "book of changes", as the results the duke xian of the public are satisfied: "lucky!"

Duke and very happy: "yarrow say very reasonable, hear than the tortoise, let's listen to a yarrow!"

Divination officer don't dry, a face of vital qi said: "big king, professional problem you have to listen to our these experts," the book of changes "that stuff is light, is far from what we than the tortoise!Resign and accounts for the tortoise says is very clear: 'espcially can make the heart evil intentions, is going to steal your ram;Vanilla and cockle together, for ten years and odor.'king, you see, the tortoise all the words so understand, just said le ji to the point you directly.You can't listen to "the book of changes", must listen to the tortoise!"

Duke and only listen to the hormone, had to be made le ji.Le ji jin offered and gave birth to a son, prince xiqi of jin, le her sister to duke gave birth to a son, also called ZhuoZi.The duke had made prince, prince shensheng of jin, is a fukui's character, as the state of jin promised many gallant, prince shensheng of jin has died mother was duke xian of male is Mrs.

Things when it comes to here, here, what would happen to the move heel can imagine.Throughout Chinese history, whenever spoil JiSheng son, very likely to usurp power.Under that system at that time, this is the most rational people conform to the rational choice.

Le ji is no exception.She must by duke xian of male hands remove crown prince shensheng of jin, let his son prince xiqi of jin successfully when the prince.

A bifurcation bifurcation -- the first topic: if you, will you do?

Before I read this scene, total feel le ji of ecstasy, the heart is not enough, later, the older, the but again feel not so: in sinister power field, almost rarely has the potential to preserve our sanity.Our vision: you stay with a few strangers in a stuffy room, the room has a pistol (only one), do not have again besides other tool.What will you do at this time.

Don't you go to grab the gun?Yes, you can to preserve our sanity, no fight with people, who also not to offend, but, can't you out of the room, if the gun in someone else's hands, so...

We think of the famous qi liu lady, she was spoil her youngest son, but even she clashed with emperors, wait for after the death of liu bang she could have good fruit to eat?Mrs Qi was take rifle defeat, was sad, but take rifle is, after all, in away that a chance!

This is the environment, system, we can infer from this: all similar political system, can stand on the highest power field, is not what is good about.

Then, le ji crucial prince prince shensheng of jin.

Le a face of care to tell her prince shensheng of jin: "big king dream, dream of you mother, you go to the sacrifice once!"

Le ji this seems puzzling, if we were in the position of prince shensheng of jin, might say: "oh, day have thought, the night has a dream, my father must have been to my dead mother."- sigh is finished.

Prince shensheng of jin and we don't like to hear le ji, immediately set off for quwu temple, mom.

- this is the social custom, dreamed of dead ancestors elders, to sacrifice to somebody else.It involves another traditional customs in time: the sacrifice of time to make a lot of good wine good meat, this is all to be sacrifices of the dead, can be addressed at the time of sacrifice part also points out the good wine good meat to monarch.Prince shensheng of jin as a prince, nature won't be a bad rules, such as sacrificial wine meat to bring back to dad.

But, very opportunely, duke went out hunting.

That can put the good wine meat first, such as duke and come back to eat to drink again.- in that there is no freezer s, these wine meat a put is put for six days.Supposedly escherichia coli what already exceeds bid badly, but it's still enough, le ji and secretly poisoned.

Duke comes back, know that this is the sacrifice made wine meat, make a wine offering, is spilled wine on the ground, the result is very strange, touched the ground of the wine has a small tomb to piled up out of thin air.Duke and wonder: "this is a master at pump it?"

Le to remind her: "big king, the wine has a problem, meat, you also have to be careful."

Duke xian of the in the mind a cold, added a few minutes carefully, to cut the first piece of meat to the dog, the dog died.And cut a piece of meat to eat under a eunuch, the eunuch also died.This scene can be scary enough, le ji was cry: "this wine meat is from prince!"

Later things short cut, "said prince prince shensheng of jin hanged himself, and his two brothers, reduced our and chong 'er was le ji WuWei complicity, separately in exile, from then on, the state of jin has experienced many significant unrest," its transformation, and the chong 'er in the decades after finally became the last laugh, boarded the JinGuoJun, pioneered the equation, the ranks of the "the spring and autumn period and the five bully", according to the state.

Now we come back to see when the tortoise: "espcially can make the heart evil intentions, is going to steal your ram;Vanilla and cockle together, about ten years and stink."(part of chongqing, buzzing 羭.A is a health, ten years is still bad.It is predicted that le ji will be duke xian of male espcially, hence the heart evil intentions, "ram" should be refer to prince prince shensheng of jin, prediction is "stolen", that is, the prince shensheng of jin is alienation, was finally forced to death.

We look at oracle bone divination the language style of ci, not with "book of changes" hexagrams like?

I said earlier, as the book is likely to be on oracle bone diviners cheap imitation, can also see some clue from here?

In this case, did not show a "book of changes" as specific methods, but don't worry, to look down.