The north wind blows through the cold of spring,

The curtain shakes and cools up.

Unbearable to hate Chunrou,

The south wind passed through Yanshan on what day.

Ermao changed into new clothes, and listened to the sound of cannons in the village, and he also went back to the house to get a few loose guns and walked out, came to the courtyard, went straight to open the gate, and put three open cannons outside the gate, and turned back. Here the widow has made breakfast, Ermao stepped forward to help the widow and aunt serve food and food, the widow is just like last night, incense burns paper, Ermao puts a cannon in the courtyard, it is the beginning of this new year.

After breakfast, I heard the widow and aunt say: "Ermao, I will go to the master's house for a walk, and you will also go to the neighbor's house next door to visit the door and pay New Year's greetings, which is also human nature, and you don't just live for a day or two." No, give you some money, go ahead. As he spoke, he took out some money from his pocket and handed it to Ermao.

"Auntie, I don't have to pretend to be money, I don't need it."

"Take it, how can a man go out without pretending to be money, go."

"Yes."

This Fan Ermao took the money and went outside.

In the morning, there was nothing to say, but in the afternoon the cold wind blew, and the clouds were quietly spreading, and the sky became overcast. The weather this winter is different from summer. The summer wind and rain come in an instant, and it will rest in an instant. Winter is different, although the cold wind is cold, the clouds are silent, and they come and go slowly. When it was time to hold the lamp, the north wind carried the snowflakes to the ground.

After the first dinner of the new year, it was snowing outside, and the widow and the two mothers sat in the hall and had nothing to do, and started talking. Just listen to this Fan Ermao said: "Auntie, you taught me numerology a few days ago. I see that it will snow on this day, and I must not be able to go out, why don't you teach me numerology? ”

"Ermao, I can't be in a hurry to learn this knowledge. Numerology is broad and profound, and it is good for a person to learn the tip of the iceberg in his lifetime. I used to teach you some basic theories, do you remember them well? ”

"Yes, auntie, I have memorized everything you taught us before."

"Well, I'll tell you about the origins of fortune-telling tonight."

So the widow told the origin of numerology from beginning to end, and listened to the widow: "Ermao, from today on, I will explain to you the numerology theory system I have learned, and you will slowly understand in the future, learning this thing is not an overnight thing." ”

"Yes, auntie, I listen to you."

"Ermao, in fact, what is fortune telling? Fortune telling, fortune telling, from the superficial meaning of these two words, you should be able to understand why the ancients used the words 'fortune' and 'fortune' to outline the whole process of predicting the fate of a person's life.

Let's talk about 'counting' first, Zhouyi gossip originated from the ancient ancestors' yarrow hexagram, people used a yarrow stem to pull up two ends, one person from one end, so that the result of the division is either divided into two, or one point interrupted, which is also like a game played as a child. To put it mildly, the wisdom theories of the ancient ancestors thousands of years ago were discovered and summarized and developed from children's games. This division and break gave rise to today's binary, one and two, two and four, four and eight, eight eight sixty-four, and then endless, which is the origin of the word 'arithmetic'.

Four thousand years ago, the ancients calculated the number of days in a year for the convenience of remembering the year, and then invented the sexagenary branch for the convenience of memory. Later, people discovered the five elements from the practice of life, and created the five elements, and the use of the five elements also used arithmetic, which is also 'calculation'.

Nayin also derives from the calculations, the ancients said: 'The number of Dayan is fifty, and its use is forty nine.' Subtract the sum of the two branches within forty-nine, and remove the remainder when the remainder is ten, and the remainder is water, and twenty-seven is fire, and thirty-eight is wood, and forty-nine is gold, and fifty is earth, and each of them takes the five lines that are born of Nayin', which is also arithmetic.

As far as numerology is concerned, arithmetic is inseparable.

So what is fate? The meaning of "life" comes from witchcraft, the ancient ancestors gave the wizard who can pass through the sky unlimited power, the scope of the wizard's responsibility is to be able to reach the sky, the ability is unlimited, omniscient, know the affairs of the yang, know the feelings of the underworld. This requires a word to summarize a person's life, and thus there is 'life'. In the early days, the word 'life' was used by shamans to explain people's daily illness, death, poverty and other natural phenomena, and when everything could not be escaped and could not explain these natural phenomena, shamans had no choice but to attribute it to 'life'.

It is also a tool often used by wizards, and it has been used for thousands of years, and it is still used by some wizards. When the sorcerers can't explain some natural phenomena or their predictions can't be fulfilled, the meaning of the word 'life' can also be seen from the glyph, and the word 'life' has the glyph of a person sitting in the room and a person kneeling and worshipping, which shows its origin. With the extension of the times, the meaning of life has been extended.

When arithmetic operations are used together with fate prediction, fortune-telling comes naturally. ”

"Auntie, what you said is so profound."

"Ermao, if you want to learn fortune telling well, you have to know what fortune telling is, you have to learn it from scratch, my aunt is teaching you numerology from scratch."

"Yes, I'll listen."

"Darwin's theory of evolution holds that human beings evolved from apes to humans, and in this long evolutionary process, early humans were in the most primitive group of people. At that time, human beings only pursued hunger and satiety, and the continuation of life was still in a state of ignorance; At that time, people, like animals, mated and reproduced out of the stimulation of physiological desires; The natural continuation of human beings in their natural physiological state, when human beings have no sense of self and therefore no sense of destiny. With the continuous reproduction and continuation of human life, human beings themselves continue to evolve, and people's ability to adapt to natural conditions is gradually strengthened. Human beings' requirements for the survival of ethnic groups are also constantly changing, human beings have been born from the most primitive family living in groups, enclosing and hunting, to gradually forming a group of people to coexist, and after a series of problems such as survival and reproduction and redistribution of interests, the scope of people's group living has been constantly changing. With the redivision of the enclosure and the merging of the strong ethnic groups with the weak ethnic groups, and the gradual merger into large ethnic groups, tribes were born, and there were tribal chiefs, and with the patriarchs, there were problems of interests and distribution.

Due to the formation of tribes, a strong protective circle has become the natural demand of human beings for strong tribes, and the dependence of human beings on tribes is increasing, which forms human self-consciousness and social consciousness, and gradually forms a primitive tribal society.

The formation of tribal societies accelerated the development of human consciousness of the future, wealth, disease, life and death, and this consciousness also accelerated the formation and development of society. Due to the influence of natural disasters, wars, diseases and other factors, human beings need to be strong enough in order to survive, and the strength of the group depends on the strong men in the group. How to master these powers is what the patriarchs are most concerned about, and what to use to strengthen their dominance is naturally a question for the patriarchs to explore.

Human beings know nothing about the unknown, that is, they cannot understand, cannot explain and cannot predict, and they cannot resist. People spend every day in panic, and people naturally can't explain and verify this helplessness, so they form a mysterious worship of heaven. For the unknown world, people can only seek knowledge from the sky, and who has the ability to reach the sky? As a result, the sorcerer of the god of heaven was born, which is also the earliest god-only worship of mankind.

The formation of this ideology is exactly what the chiefs of the tribe need, and the first people who can reach the heavens exist in the tribe as sorcerers, and these people who can reach the heavens are respected. The existence of wizards temporarily solves people's psychological need to know the future. People have evolved from the desire to know the future to the worship of the gods, and thus the shamans have been given unlimited power. Some wizards are directly the chief himself, the wizard's ability to reach the sky makes the wizard become the embodiment of the god, people believe in him, admire him, naturally the wizard must also have his own ability, have the ability to predict the future, and the wizard's prediction is to be fulfilled, which requires the wizard must form a prediction system, so the oldest prediction technique was born.

The primitive ancestors' strong desire for knowledge of the unknown world is an important driving force for social development and the progress of human civilization. At that time, human beings continued to explore the unknown world, so that today's modern people have benefited a lot, our theoretical ideas today are based on the theoretical basis of the ancestors, and our current ideology is derived from the ideological ideology of the ancestors, and gradually formed a traditional ideology, the formation of these ideologies is also inseparable from the ancestors of witchcraft theism.

The theistic thinking of the ancestors deduced the concept of "life". The appearance of the word "life" is related to people's helplessness in the unknown world, people want to understand the future of their own life, but how can they know their unknown life? The ancestors could not explain that only "life" was used to determine a person's life, from the known to the unknown, which is the generation of "life".

Due to people's strong pursuit of the unknown, the responsibility of wizards has become great, and wizards must have the ability to foresee, which requires wizards to first find a predictable tool, which gives rise to yarrow divination.

After the yarrow divination was produced, a very simple materialist ideological system was gradually formed. The invention and preservation of divination formed the later "Zhou Yi", and the production of Yi Bu gave birth to the later theory of destiny and formed today's theory of fate.

In fact, the birth of Ib can also be traced back to the beginning of ignorance in ancient mankind, and the early human beings' desire to solve the unknown world was no different from that of modern people, and even stronger than modern people. However, the level of science at that time was limited, and when seeking to know the unknown world, human beings could only seek the sky, which was related to the beliefs of primitive humans. Ancient human beings had fertility worship, especially in matriarchal societies, and human beings had a sense of mystery about the birth of children, and due to the unknown of the female yin, there was a phenomenon of female yin worship. After entering the patriarchal male dominance period, human beings have the wind of male root worship again. The relics of this kind of fertility worship can still be found in the ancient temples now. In the ancient temple fairs of Huaiyang, you can see the remnants of the fertility worship.

From the life and labor, the ancestors found that one yin and one yang are women and men, one yin and one yang are earth and heaven, one yin and one yang give birth to children, one yin and one yang give birth to wind and thunder, and one yin and one yang give birth to Yibu, which is the source of the idea of life two, two and four, four and eight, and eight things, and thus evolved a very simple materialist ideological system. Everything in the world has pros and cons, and so does Ib. The origin of Ib's thought comes from the god-only worship of the ancestors, but the theoretical basis of Ib is indeed a materialist theory based on material elements.

The original theoretical basis of the I Ching is divided into two, and this idea is a very simple materialism, which is also the source theory of the traditional ideology of the Chinese nation, and the generation of this thought comes from Bu Yao. When our early ancestors were in a hazy state, they used yarrow to seek divination, which was naturally simple and easy to do, and a yarrow was divided into two, and a set of primitive and simple materialist ideological systems were produced in this division. This is that everything is divided into two, just like a coin, there are opposites and positives, and there are days and nights in a day, and people have men and women, and things have yin and yang. Just like the origin of Ib's thought, things are divided into two, and yarrow is divided into divination, which will inevitably lead to two results, one is that yarrow is divided into two, and the other is broken by one, which leads to even odd numbers, but this behavior has an element of accidental discovery in the process, so whether it is ancient or modern, no matter how the Ibu theory develops, it cannot escape the origin theory of dividing into two, and it cannot escape the contingency of Ib's theory. Just like the origin of the theory of divination, the accuracy of divination is also divided into two, and even gods and men cannot escape this idea of dividing into two.

Therefore, when learning the numerology of the ancestors, you, me, and him, no one can escape the five-fingered mountain that is divided into two no matter what. Otherwise, as a professor of Yixue in Taiwan said, you have to have the ability to communicate with the mind. If you want to know the heavens, you must know the heart, which is also the reason why Ib can not conform to social philosophy from ancient times to modern times.

Ibu was a divination tool for sorcerers in the early days, from the wisdom of the ancestors, a magic weapon for the power of the tribal leaders, a superstructure for the early ancestors, and a tool used by the later rulers to predict national events and weather. At that time, divination was in the hands of the rulers, and Ibu was an act of state. From the surviving hexagrams, it can be seen that individuals are not capable of building such a large hexagram table. During the Zhou Dynasty, the Ibuzer was a full-time state civil servant, and he was a man of high official quality.

These full-time divination practitioners summarized the witchcraft divination of their predecessors and recorded them, forming the "Zhou Yi" divination we see today. By the time of the Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period, the divination was sorted out and annotated by several major thinkers and became their ideological and theoretical tools, forming a variety of ideological systems of the Ib theory, the most representative of which is Confucianism, the formation of the theory is the "Book of Changes".

After the emergence of Bu Yi, the saying of the five elements appeared. "Shangshu? Hong Fan is an account of the dialogue between King Wu of Zhou and Jizi, which says: "Five elements: one is water, two is fire, three is wood, four is gold, and five is earth. The water is moistened, the fire is said to be hot, the wood is said to be straight, the gold is said to be from the leather, and the soil is said to be the grain. Moisten the bottom for salty, the flame for bitterness, straight for sour, from leather for bitterness, grain for sweetness. "Tradition holds that the Book of Shang? Hong Fan", "Shangshu? "Willing Oath" is a work of the Western Zhou Dynasty. From the initial two-part theory of Ib, to the later theory of the five elements, it was based on the materialist viewpoint based on matter, thus forming the theory of yin and yang with theism as the starting point and materialism as the theoretical basis. But since numerology originates from witchcraft, it is naturally inseparable from the ideological concept of idealism. This is the whole development process of Chinese numerology.

The science of fortune-telling was really developed in full development in the Han Dynasty, and it was only a matter for wizards before that, and a systematic written theory was not formed. By the time of the Han Dynasty, the White Tiger Tongyi was the first to appear, and then Wang Chong's Treatise on Balance, and the emergence of these literal theories shows that fortune-telling rose from the early witchcraft to the literati and eunuchs. The literati and writers were exploring the theoretical basis for fortune-telling, which was the transformation of fortune-telling from theism to materialism.

From Wang Chong's "On Balance. It can be seen in the chapter on the potential of things that after fortune-telling entered the eunuch class, the theoretical basis summarized by literati and scholars to explore numerology was materialism based on matter, and the understanding of fate was still prediction and helplessness. Today, thousands of years later, no one has been able to transcend or change. All current theories of fortune-telling are based on this, which is the fundamental reason why fortune-telling is not accepted by everyone. Because the origin theory of fortune-telling is materialistic, but when applied to the individual of the crowd, the result of its effect is that the original idea of theism acts on the theoretical system of fortune-telling, and even the gods and men cannot go beyond this threshold.

Driven by a desire to know the future, the search for fortune-telling has not stopped for thousands of years. Although it has experienced many suppressions in history, it has not disappeared, but has continued to expand. With the passage of time, the status quo of the coexistence of various factions and their own theories has emerged in fortune telling.

After Wang Chong in the Han Dynasty, fortune-telling broke away from the altar of witchcraft and entered the stage of development of theory and practice. In the early days, it was a play on words by the upper-class literati and eunuchs, and a set of systematic theories gradually formed during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, the scholars represented by Li Xuzhong made significant contributions to the development of fortune-telling, but it can be seen from the identity of other eunuchs that fortune-telling was still a theoretical tool for the upper-class scholars at that time, and it was to serve the upper-class society.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, fortune-telling gradually matured and gradually flowed into the people. The emergence of Xu Ziping shows that fortune-telling tends to mature and spreads to the people. Xu Ziping, also known as Ju Yi, is the summarizer of the four-pillar prediction theory. He summarized the theory of the year pillar of the predecessors, and established the numerology theory of predicting fate based on the sun pillar and the heavenly stem, and the Shengke theory of the relationship between the five elements of the sun stem and the other stem branches of the four pillars, which is the theoretical basis for predicting fate in modern eight characters. The establishment of this theoretical system has laid a solid foundation for the promotion of fortune-telling to the people, and it should be said that Xu Ziping's contribution to numerology is great. The emergence of Xu Ziping unified the theoretical basis of fortune-telling. ”

"Since the day when the eight-character fortune-telling technique spread to the people, Ziping's 'four pillars' theory has been deficient in the prediction theory. Since the origin theory of the 'Four Pillars' life theory originated from the upper-class eunuch literati, the eight-character numerology represented by Xu Ziping is dedicated to wealth and wealth and glory. From Xu Ziping to "Three Lives", its theoretical foundation is based on wealth and nobility, and these theories are positive and good. Although theoretically established the theory of divine withering and the theory of divine evil, these are not its main ideas, and its main idea is still the theory of financial officials serving the upper echelons of eunuchs. This set of theories itself originated from the upper-class scholars, and the literati's word games filled the entire theoretical process of numerology, which brought a large degree of understanding and extension space for the spread of fortune-telling among the people. However, with the wide spread of the eight-character fortune theory, after entering the people, the eight-character fortune-telling changed its original intention, because the wealth and official theory of the origin of the eight-character could not meet the needs of the lower class society. What kind of financial officials do the common people talk about?

The common people talk about a safe and healthy life, and safety and health are the first priority. As a result, the eight characters accelerated the development of the theory of gods and evil spirits from the original theory of financial officials. This theoretical system is basically represented by the folk blind hexagram, the blind based on the Ziping eight-character theory, increased and expanded the inference theory of the god and the evil theory, sorted out the theory of the god and the dry, and increased the application of the theory of the god and the evil in the folk, this set of the eight-character theory system developed from the folk makes up for the lack of Xu Ziping's eight-character theory in the folk application, but it is precisely because of the growing demand of the people, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is no unified standard, so it leads to the mixing of fish and dragons, and the factions are numerous. The theory of divine calamity one-sidedly focuses on the application of calamity in the crowd, and when adopting the theory of calamity of divine calamity, the level of numerologists is different, and their understanding is different, and their remarks are inevitably very different, and there is often a phenomenon of multiple interpretations of a numerology, which is caused by a variety of reasons.

The main reason lies in the imperfection of Ziping's eight-character theory, when using Ziping's eight-character theory to discuss a person's wealth and officials, it is based on the day stem as the source, the month as the key link, with the five elements of the year, month, day, and time stem and branch, and on a person's wealth and poverty, but when this set of theories is used to predict a person's life and death and good luck, it shows the imperfection of this theory. When choosing between the eight-character god and the determination of a person's life and death, due to the different levels and understandings of fortune tellers, there has been a tragedy such as a death case because of a fortune teller's words since fortune telling has spread to the people. An inappropriate statement by a fortune teller can ruin a person's life, endanger a family, and make innocent people pay for it. The theory of divine withering and the theory of divine evil are the most representative.

The theoretical result of the theory of divine withering and divine evil theory is to determine the life and death of a person, and when such a serious matter is applied to individuals in the crowd, there is a problem of shallow knowledge and application understanding of the predictor. The theory of the origin argument of numerology is materialistic, but when applied to the actual group of people, there is a very heavy psychological influence of idealism, which is the fundamental reason why fortune-telling can not go beyond the category of idealism from spiritualism to materialism. Modern fortune tellers also saw these problems, so they accelerated the development and refinement of the theory of divine evil on the basis of Ziping's theory.

In modern times, the new eight-character theories represented by Ren Tianqiao's "Ditian Sui Interpretation" and Chen Su'an's "Numerology Covenant" are representative works of sorting out and perfecting Shengke's suppression of the theory of divine withering, and these theories are based on Ziping's eight-character theory, which has increased the intensity of the discussion of the theory of divine withering. Ren Tianqiao synthesized the theories of his predecessors and interpreted the 'Three Paths on Life', only talking about the prosperity and prosperity of the eight characters, regardless of the gods. Chen Su'an added a detailed description of the theory of Shengke suppression, but it still did not go beyond the scope of Ziping's eight characters, and did not fundamentally solve the shortcomings of the application of the scholars, scholars, and financial officials in the people. The word games of literati and writers fill the entire process of numerology theory, but increase the extension space of numerology in the understanding of folk applications. Due to the theoretical extension of the theory of divine dryness, the difference in the understanding and application of fortune tellers also brings the risk of life to innocent people, often because of the fortune teller's words lead to tragedy.

Modern folk blind people have made positive contributions to the exploration and development of fortune-telling, and the blind people have invented and created a new set of fortune-telling theories in practical activities through the practice of fortune-telling on the basis of Ziping Bazi, that is, the method of stringing palace pressure and luck. This kind of fortune-telling is a continuation of the development of the theory of divine evil, and is an extension of the theory of divine evil, but from the perspective of its theoretical thinking, this kind of fortune-telling is a set of theories developed and summarized to meet the needs of the people, and there is a tendency to emphasize the theory of calamity. This set of theoretical ideas has a tendency to aggravate the negative psychological impact of the catastrophe theory on the seeker, and its application and popularization remain to be seen. ”

The widow told Fan Ermao until midnight, saw that it was late, and said; "That's all for tonight, and tomorrow I'll tell you the theoretical basis of fortune-telling. You go to sleep. ”

"Yes, I'll sleep."

After that, the two of them rested separately.

Precisely:

Three emperors and five emperors to the present day,

A, B, C, D, and hexagrams,

Wu Ji Gengxin on the four pillars,

The ten stems of non decay are root seedlings.