Divine spirit, stillThe tortoiseThe spirit?The zhouyi, or yarrow spirit?

A variety of divination from zuo zhuan as case, always make me feel the zhouyi from oracle bone divination to simplify, it also comply with the general situation of things change, and the tortoise and the spirit of the zhouyi and ineffective, seems to be in the eyes of the ancients is not depends on the divination, or as the method itself, but more depends on the particular medium, the tortoise is amazing animals, tortoise turtle, ten thousand, one thousand divineth turtle is high-grade goods, only big noble sustainable, affordable;Although zhouyi with yarrow is grass, but it is said that is not ordinary grass.Let's look at the upright shi-ji turtle strategy in a relevant records:

Slightly WenXia Yin teller, but take yarrow turtle, refuse to have, think turtles hide it is ineffective, yarrow long is not of god.Until the end of the week room officer. We always treasure yarrow turtle;Its size has again, each is still somewhat, to its return and so on.Or think holy king was all calm, no see, never doubt its set records of the path to inquire of god, thought the later decline, fool don't think, one day, classified as chamber, scattered and endless, is pushing to micro, Jie spirit also.Or think of insects, director of saint can't argue with.The good or ill luck, but don't no, more in person....

Yu to jiangnan, observe its matter, ask their elders, chitose is cloud turtle swam lotus plants, stem has a yarrow.And its bore, the beast without the tiger, grass non-toxic sting.Jiang alongside family often livestock tortoise diet, thought can direct to gas, help failure pension benefits, not letter!

Mr Chu said: I to menstruation, trained, Ph.D., in the spring and autumn, with high first, thanks to enemies, discrepancy palace for more than ten years.I good too history Mr.Too history Mr Of yue: "three different turtle king, four different lay, but all for good or ill luck, just to, mock turtle biographies."Vassal relationship in changan, turtle and biographies can't get the reason of big officer, ask about the elders and their literature acquisition, write in turtle strategy bligh, made up from below....

Heard the ancient five emperors and three Kings remembered, will first yarrow turtles.Under the yue: "FuLing, rabbit on silk;Dao yarrow, god turtle."The so-called FuLing, under the rabbit silk, looks like the shape of the birds.XinYu has, quiet calm day, to go to the night take rabbit silk, both with 枡 candle candle here, fire, or remember the place, with four zhangs ring buy new cloth, is made, the four feet to seven feet, too, had seven feet do not have to.FuLing, chitose pine root also, eat not die.Smell of yarrow, covered the stem, which will keep god turtle, qingyun away on it always.The yue: "world peace, king, and yarrow stalks long, the cluster with the stem."This life get yarrow, not middle testimonies, and not over the long stem zhangs, take eighty stems, yarrow eight feet long, is also rare.People use sticks, take on 60 stem has, full of 6 feet, is available.Remember yue: "can the name turtle, property's, home will be how to do."The big dipper "turtle", the "south Chen" turtle ", three "five-star turtle", four "eight wind turtle", "20 BaSu turtle" five yue, six yue "moon and turtle," seven "kyushu turtle", eight yue: "jade turtle" every eight turtles.Turtle diagram have under belly, wen at such a time, this a turtle also.Just remember the thumb, don't write the figure.Take this turtle doesn't have to full feet 2 inches, the people who have to seven or eight inches long, to treasure.Though they have hidden deep, today's bead jade jewelry, will see the light, will be its gods, its "of the body!Jade in the mountain and wood embellish, deep bead and shore not withered, and also the place to add.Bright moon beads from jianghai, hidden in a clam, 蚗 v of the dragon.The king, with the world, four obey.Get stem yarrow, and have to turtle underneath to teller, put it best when, should good or ill luck enough.

God turtle in the water, often LuJiang county turtle feet 2 inches long, at the age of twenty lose too bligh guan, too bligh officer by day take take its under armour.Turtle chitose is full feet 2 inches.King army will, will drill the turtle temple, for good or ill luck.Today in the high temple a turtle, hid inside thought ShenBao.The yue: "take forefoot Er bone wear peja, take turtle chamber of northwest corner suspension, under the forest into the mountains, Peter."

Bed foot, old man with a turtle south branch more than twenty years of age, the old man died, moving bed, turtle ShangSheng undead.Turtles can guide.Asked yue: "if the turtles to god, but too officer live turtles, what needs to kill them on a?"Modern people have named jiang turtle, livestock, home because of the rich.Talk with people, you would like to send to.Taught to kill don't send, send the broken family.Turtle see dream yue: "send me the water, not to have killed my also."The home will kill it.Kill after physical death, the home.

The people and the king is a different way.People named tortoise, its shape class should not be killed.Past the ancient stories, incorporated bosnia-herzegovina main kill for both....

This record is very interesting, and my answer a wonder: to be honest, I'm filming the conscience ask themselves, will think why I sometimes not sure?

Maybe is not my way, but a tool?

As I said, I am the game as the pieces, I also said that anything as long as well, other masters will say so, but, look from the shiji, I'm afraid that is not necessarily the case.

Shiji says: it is said that Xia Chaohe shang dynasty divination, tortoise shell and yarrow and forget, because they think these things are all have a shelf life, shelf life is ineffective, can no longer use;But the ethos of the zhou dynasty, put the tortoise shell and yarrow when baby put on, and I don't know why.So, why the tortoise and yarrow can break good or ill luck?Someone's logic is this: saint although very cow, but it is not anything very cow, for example, a saint, would probably be oxen, saint cart is not equal to the horse, steal balm is not saintsThe mouse, so the tortoise is they may not a saint, but it happened that saints will tell fortune.

The old man said: in the jiangnan region the tortoise a chitose after grow to like the lotus plantsswimming, yarrow is unambiguous, yarrow could grow hundreds of roots.They grow where a beautiful environment, not the tiger in the woods, the grass is not poisonous scorpions.Too history Mr Also said: "in different dynasties, different places and divination method is different, but the efficacy is the same."- this sentence is so we should grasp, if this is true, then the accuracy of the fortune-telling methods mainly depends on tool rather than a prediction.As we had the zhouyi, so is still so calculate, it doesn't matter, all it is important to use genuine yarrow to calculate.

What, then, where is the real yarrow?One hundred roots long grass on a root who I'm afraid we haven't seen it?

, says the shiji. "the tortoise and yarrow is climbing up close.God heard at best stem yarrow under certain tortoises in keeping, what is more, also often over the wan.- it seems that we can follow the clouds out to the action.

Also, we can take action immediately.Why is that?For shiji said: "there are records, said: 'at the time of the world peace, king and prosperity, yarrow grass would grow to a post, the stem of a tree grass will grow hundreds of stem.'" - it is no wonder that long feudal times before and never heard that authoritarian era are the real yarrow, because it can be too far away from "world peace, poor king and prosperity", now our socialist new China must can be found everywhere in this one high yarrow.

Someone might be worried: "but I don't know yarrow ah, don't know what's it like!"

- you don't need to pipe does it look like, as long as the follow up to find that saw how high a post, the grass, it must be!

Figure - 20 standard yarrow turtle with god

Shiji is recorded of way: "a high grass where to find ah, has six feet high to make do with it.Yarrow could not find words, to find the tortoise, the big tortoise can accumulate, who is said to be home if I get a big tortoise, bank cash will directly into his house.Say best fortune-telling tool, that still have to say it's a combination of the tortoise and yarrow, we call it the 'turtle grass meal, is to use the one high stem yarrow plus nostromo guard god turtle come fortune-teller, accuracy up to one hundred percent!"

Look, this is the "weapon", back 30 years will have to get off.

The tortoise is really amazing, shiji said: the south there is a old man get a tortoise to the bed legs, after more than 20 years oldPeople diedMove the bed, family member, found the tortoise is still alive!- this is the han dynasty on the books of cruelty to animals, animal conservationists notice!

Shiji remember the other stories, said recently that someone got a big tortoise, at home to raise, so it became a great wealth.Can the man also don't know how to, look for a person to discuss, want to put the turtle.Others advised him not to put, say to put the tortoise will broken home, it was better to kill it.The tortoise knew this matter, appeared to him in the evening, said: "don't kill me, put me back into the water!"Can this person or kill the turtle, as a result, it was not long before he died, the home also lost.

Write up the shiji ChuShaoSun think these stories about inconsistent, then explained: "the people and not a Kings, so people have big turtle can't kill it, but from the point of the ancient story, previous undeterred monarchs are kill the big turtle divination..."

But the tortoise is so magic?If there is infinite power, can let a person lark, why but lose his own soul?Shiji this passage is to tell the story of a Song Yuanjun to answer this question, but the shiji says too bothersome, but also is not the original, the prototype of the story I have seen in the "zhuangzi", so you may as well take "chuang tzu" version and see it:

Song Yuanjun midnight and dreams are looking amen, yue: "to the road of the abyss, slaughter to for qingjiang river, yu yu and may."Yuan jun, make the person of, yue: "the turtle is god."Jun yue: "fishing more and?"Or so yue: "have."Jun yue:" more than that and will move."Tomorrow, and the yu.Jun yue: "to fish?"Yue:" and the web of Bai Gui defy, a white circle five feet."Jun yue: "if the turtle."Turtle, jun to kill again, to live again.Heart, bligh.Yue: "kill the turtle to BuJi."Involuntary discharge of urine 䇲 Ku turtle, seventy-two drill.You said, "god turtle can see the dream in yuan jun, and can't avoid excess and the web of;Can know seventy-two drill and involuntary discharge of urine, can't avoid Ku bowel.If know have been trapped, and somewhat less than god.Although have to know, for the ten thousand people.Defying the net pelican and fear.Go between small and big bright, the good and the good.babyRaw, no teacher to recognize but can speak, and if the place is."

Read the book of mencius, "he said," a friend should remember side there is a great guy couldn't say for sure whether there is the big bad Wolf Song Wangyan, the Song Wangyan is probably now we speak of the Song Yuanjun.Also remind a bit: this story was written by zhuangzi miscellaneous articles, so don't think that was written by zhuang zi himself, although Song Yuanjun king has always been zhuangzi was immediate.

Words in the middle of the night, one day Song Yuanjun made a strange dream, dream of someone in the "send out amen."

- it all annotations that our Chinese Taoist classics, more than two thousand years ago there was recorded in the "amen", it seems some mysterious origin and Christianity.If you like this kind of mysterious explanation, that you believe so good, although the "amen" actually refers to the "side", "side door", and "is" the word "the beatles", so the sentence means: Song Yuanjun dreamed someone snooping curled her hair in a side door.

Song Yuanjun very strange: "what are you from?"

The man said: "I am passers-by slaughter."

Song Yuanjun a surprised: "what do you want to kill the passerby?"

The man said: "to kill the road is a place name, is a big pieces, that is my hometown.I came out from home to take an examination of the early, and now the qingjiang diplomats, this few days to the river to make foreign trip, want to make a cordial and friendly talks, and the river on relations between the two river issues for further negotiations..."

Song Yuanjun yawned, "I am a monarch, to be honest with me."

The man one leng, then a tone has changed: "respect the monarch, save me, I was a man named yu and fishermen illegal detention!"

Song Yuanjun a surprised, wake up, the more think it is a dream, the more feel strange, so -

Guess what he will do?

Divination is, of course!Song Yuanjun hurriedly seek to experts make divination, the conclusion is: "the dream of the man is a god turtle."

"God turtle?"Song Yuanjun a joy, "I said how dressed like a ninja."

So, Song Yuanjun sent to find the name yu and fishermen, was found, ask, he said do net to a white big tortoise, smaller than turtles are not in the following.

Big tortoise came up, Song Yuanjun, ho, good big ah!Can do about it?Song Yuanjun wanted to keep it for a while, for a while and want to put it, it's make up our minds.

Attention to this matter, if in the later, such as the Ming and qing dynasties era, the average person all know must be free will have to pay, kill the tortoise will have to evil, but "chuang tzu" this idea is not strong at the moment.Then, Song Yuanjun exactly what should you do?

Of course have to divination!

Encounter problems, divination is solved.

The divination conclusion is: kill!

God turtle down big mildew, dream for help, actually killed.Song Yuanjun use this god turtle shell for divination tools, even accounting for seventy-two, a no efficacious.

You also notice that the words revealed another message to us, that is to say: divination is not all spiritual, but usually it when the spirit is ineffective, so have so a completely effective will be regarded as a piece of news.It's like when you see a dynasty in history to popularize the xyz official, officer, you should know, publicity of individuals are generally and is directly proportional to the corruption of the court on the whole, this is the principle of news: "dog bites is not news, man bites a dog that is news", and ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign connection.

Later, about Song Yuanjun kill the big turtle in the song kingdom didn't cover, reached the ears of Confucius.Intellectuals is talked about like the blind, the master said, "the god turtle ah, good dream, but it does not shield fishermen's nets;Divination seventy-two times spirit, but could not hide the slain fate.In that sense, wisdom has blind spots, spectral nor work everywhere..."

- we still don't think so complicated, perhaps, spirit is not the tortoise and yarrow itself, but the magic of zhouyi calculus?We still with the payoff is spirit "point of view, enter the first of the zhouyi divination" originality ", the contents of the theoretical basis of dragon 18 zhangs all right here?