vs 234 Divination and Divination

When the state has important things to inquire about, such as divination and the establishment of a new king, divination of the great divination, the great divination will instruct the part of the tortoise shell to rise to show the great uncle, and gouge the hole here for burning. When the Great Sacrifice is held, the Great Divination will instruct the high part of the tortoise shell to show the Great Zongbo, and ask the divination in the way of burning the tortoise. When asking about trivial matters, the Great Divination will come to the province in person instead of the Great Uncle Zongbo. When the divination capital is migrated, or when a great expedition is carried out, the big divination will place the tortoise shell on the divination position properly. At the time of the divination and the travel festival, the big prop will release the tortoise shell Chen. At the time of divination and funeral, Da Bu will ask the divination in the way of burning turtles.

The diviner is responsible for divination and takes out the four omen books of the turtle divination: one is "Fang Zhao", the second is "Gong Omen", the third is "Righteous Omen", and the fourth is "Bow Omen". During divination, the soothsayer will instruct the raised part of the tortoiseshell to show the officials who come to the province to see the divination, and the soothsayer will raise a fire to burn the tortoiseshell until the omen pattern appears. At the time of divination, the soothsayer discerns the head of the turtle with its head up, its head down, its left oblique, its right oblique, its back length, and its front length, and gives it to the person who publishes the divination, and tells and assists in the publication of the divination that needs to be done.

Turtle people, in charge of 6 types of turtles, each has its own name and characteristics: walking and bowing the head of the turtle and the like are called spirits, walking and looking up of the ground turtle is called the genus, the east turtle with a slightly longer front carapace is called the fruit genus, the left side of the tortoise shell is slightly oblique to the west turtle is called thunder, the south turtle with a slightly longer back carapace is called the hunting genus, and the north turtle on the right side of the tortoise shell is slightly oblique is called the genus Ruo, and the turtle people distinguish them according to the color of these turtles and the characteristics of their turtle bodies. The Five Elements match the southeast, northwest, and middle with blue, red, white, black and yellow, one side and one color, referred to as square color. The time for tortoise hunting is in autumn, and the time for treating tortoise shells is in spring, and each of them is stored in the tortoise room according to their name and species. In the first month of spring, the sacrificial blood is used to sacrifice the person who invented the divination. If there is a sacrifice, the turtle people will carry the turtle there. This is also the case when traveling festivals are held, and it is also the same when there are funerals.

菙 (chuí) is responsible for supplying the burning and deed (xiè) to prepare for divination. During the divination, he first lit the torch with an open flame, and then lit the deed with a blowing fire to give it to the diviner, and then followed the instructions of the diviner to assist the diviner.

Zhanren, who is responsible for divination with tortoise shells and yarrow (shī) grass. Before divination, the diviner will first divinate the eight things according to the divination, if it is only divination and not divination, the diviner will observe the good fortune and evil according to the eight things of the gossip divination. Bu is to use fire tortoise shells to speculate on the good luck and evil of travel, and Zheng is to use yarrow to divinate hexagrams. During divination, the monarch observes the omen, the doctor observes the omen, the historian observes the coarse lines of the omen, and the diviners observe the fine lines of the omen. After the divination was completed, the Zhan people put together the silk of the offering to the gods and the recorded propositions and omens to collect them. At the end of the year, the diviner will sum up the results of the year's divination to see how much has been fulfilled or unfulfilled.

The Zheng people are responsible for three kinds of "Yi" books to distinguish the names of the nine Xiao: one is "Lianshan", the second is "Guizang", and the third is "Zhou Yi". The name of the nine Zong: one is the Zheng change, the second is the Zheng Cheng, the third is the Zheng style, the fourth is the Xiao Mu, the fifth is the Xiao Yi, the sixth is the Xiao Bi, the seventh is the Xiao Temple, the eighth is the Xiao Shen, the ninth is the Xiao Huan, and the nine Xiao are used to distinguish the good and the bad. For all major national events, the Zheng people will first occupy the Zheng and then divination. The Zheng people will choose yarrow in the first month of spring. At the time of the occupation of the state, the Zheng people were responsible for supplying and storing grass.

Zhan Meng is responsible for observing the intersection of the sun and the moon in the four seasons of each year to distinguish the qi of yin and yang. According to the degree of the sun and the moon and the position of the intersection, the auspicious and evil of 6 types of dreams are measured: one is positive dream, the second is nightmare, the third is longing dream, the fourth is sleepy dream, the fifth is happy dream, and the sixth is fear of dream. In the winter of December, the dream teller asks the king about his dreams to predict the good fortune of the coming year, and dedicates the good fortune of the king for the whole year to the king, and the king will first bow and then accept it. Zhan Meng would sacrifice the sprouts of vegetables to the Quartet to send away the nightmare, and then ordered Fang Xiang's clan to start expelling the plague ghosts.

襲 (jìn) is responsible for observing 10 methods of halo next to the sun to observe good and evil, and to distinguish good and evil: one is 稷, the second is elephant, the third is 锖 (qiāng), the fourth is prison, the fifth is dark, the sixth is 瞢 (měng), the seventh is mi, the eighth is xu, the ninth is prevention, and the tenth is thinking. It is responsible for settling down and occupying the place where the evil has fallen in turn, so as to remove or relocate. At the beginning of the first month of the summer calendar, depending on the matter of settling in the house, at the end of the year, the situation of settling in the house for the whole year is totaled.

Great Blessing, master 6 kinds of blessings, used to worship people and ghosts, gods and earth gods, pray for good fortune, pray for eternal righteousness without evil chaos: one is a good wish, the second is a New Year's wish, the third is an auspicious blessing, the fourth is a blessing, the fifth is a rui wish, and the sixth is a strategic blessing. Dazhu mastered six methods of sacrifice and prayer to make people and ghosts, heavenly gods, and earth gods harmonize: one is a kind of sacrifice, the second is a creation sacrifice, the third is a cypress sacrifice, the fourth is a naphthalene (nài) sacrifice, the fifth is an attack sacrifice, and the sixth is a saying sacrifice. At the same time, Dazhu wrote 6 types of words to communicate people up and down, close and close, far and near: one is the words of the court's appointment, the second is the diplomatic language, the third is the admonition and exhortation of the top to the bottom, the fourth is the words of the alliance oath, the fifth is the words of blessing and celebration, and the sixth is the sacrificial text of the deceased.

Dazhu is also responsible for identifying the six kinds of honorable titles used in sacrifices: one is the name of the gods, the second is the name of the ancestors, the third is the name of the god of the earth, the fourth is the name of sacrifice, the fifth is the name of grain, and the sixth is the name of jade silk. The Great Blessing needs to distinguish 9 kinds of rituals before eating: one is the life sacrifice, the second is the Yan sacrifice, the third is the package sacrifice, the fourth is the Zhou sacrifice, the fifth is the Zhen sacrifice, the sixth is the engagement sacrifice, the seventh is the absolute sacrifice, the eighth is the reed sacrifice, and the ninth is the offering sacrifice. Distinguish 9 kinds of worship: one is the head of the head, the second is the head of the pause, the third is the empty head, the fourth is the vibration, the fifth is the auspicious worship, the sixth is the fierce worship, the seventh is the strange worship, the eighth is the praise worship, and the ninth is the solemn worship, these 9 kinds of worship are used to offer wine to the corpse and persuade the corpse to eat during the sacrifice.