Chapter 1 Preface to the Three Lives Society
"Three Lives" is divided into 12 volumes, without the author's name, and the frontispiece is only inscribed with the people of Yuwushan.
According to the bibliography listed in the "History of the Ming Dynasty, Art and Literature", there are 12 volumes of Wan Minyu's "Three Lives Huitong", which is the same as the number of volumes of "Three Lives Tonghui", but "Tonghui" and "Huitong" are different. According to Wan Minying, the author of "Star Studies", the word Yuwu speculates that it is likely to be the same person as Yuwu Shanren. If this is the case, then the author of this book should be entitled Wan Minying. Because the book expounds Ziping's testament, for the name of officials, seals, wealth, Lu, food, and injury, with the severity of God, and the good and evil involved in various gods, they can collect the essence of the group, so almost every family at that time had this book, and since then, those who study the fate of the stars have regarded this book as a comprehensive work.
However, the book also has its own shortcomings, as the "Siku Quanshu General" said: "As far as its argument is to take more officials, seals, and wealth, and do not know that biased officials, biased prints, and partial wealth can also be effective; If so, his paranoid views are not rounded. And the fetal element and other theories, applied today, there are many untested. Scholars should be careless, and they can be flexible. ”
It is determined that the four libraries are the seven art numbers of the whole book and the five life books
The ministers and other cases of the three lives of the twelve will not be written by the name of the author, but the title of the first but the title of the Wushan people, the history of the Ming Dynasty and the art of the Ming Dynasty have ten thousand people to educate the three lives of the people will pass the twelve, and the number of this volume coincides. However, it is a slight difference to use the general meeting as the general meeting, and the five-star monograph of the current examination of the world is written by Wan Minying, and it has been written here. This monograph Ziping is also out of the hands of Minying, and Yiwen Zhi covers the name of Yuwu Shanren, and mistakenly takes Minying as the people's education. The two characters are also written in the same way, so there is a difference, in fact, this book is also.
For more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty, those who have talked about the fate of the stars have taken this as the general message. At home, there are eight characters in the middle of his book, often and people in the Ming season. Later, it was brought in by the workshop, and it was no longer the original old. In particular, in the name of the official seal of wealth and food, the light weight of the gods, and the good luck and evil of the gods, can be summarized to obtain its essence, so it is often used by artists. There must be those who cannot be abolished, so that they are determined to take more official positions, correct seals, and correct wealth, but do not know that they are biased towards officials, seals, and wealth. can also know that the god of food can spit out, and do not know that the injured officer can also be surprising, but his biased views can not be implemented, and the fetal yuan and other theories, there are many things to do today.
Scholars of life, but when they are careless, they can be changed. If the cited Luozi is very different from the text of the complete text in the present Yongle Canon, then the secret book at that time only exists outside the world, and it is mistaken that the original text relied on is not enough to be a disease. The chief codifier official Ji Yun, the minister Lu Xixiong, the minister Sun Shiyi, and the minister general colonel Lu Fei were admitted to the colonel in September of the 44th year of Qianlong.
When I read the 12 volumes of the "Three Lives Meeting" today, I think that although the content of the "Three Lives Meeting" is somewhat biased, among the surviving books of destiny, only the "Three Lives Society" is the top, the most reasonable in content, and the most authentic in interpretation, so I feel that it is necessary to translate and annotate this book for future scholars to learn the correct knowledge.