I nodded and walked nasally, and then looked at the second mask, which represents the mask of the "kun hexagram": "Then this second piece represents the kun hexagram, so how to explain it?" ”

Kaleidoscope smiled, took the golden mask from my hand, and drew six yin lines on the ground: "You know this hexagram, right?" ”

I nodded: "Yes, Kun Weidi." ”

"Kun is the earth, and the six lines are all yin. The words are Yuan, Heng, and the chastity of the horse. The gentleman has a future, and he will be lost first and then won. Lixi has friends, and the northeast has lost friends. Ahn Jung, Ji. Xiang said: "The terrain is good, and the gentleman is virtuous." It means good luck. Ask the female horse to get a good omen. The gentleman went on a trip, first lost his way, and then found his master, auspicious. The southwestbound gain property, and the northeastern bound loses property. Occupy the settlement and get the auspicious sign. "Elephant Words" says: The situation of the earth is flat and stretched, and it follows the way of heaven. The gentleman observes this hexagram, takes the law from the ground, and bears great responsibilities with profound virtue. ”

My head was shaken by a golden lamp by this passer, and I don't know why.

Seeing that I didn't know why, Kaleidoscope glanced at me with his eyes, smiled helplessly and shook his head: "Seeing that you don't understand what I'm talking about, I'll continue to talk." He pointed to the lower line of Kun Weidi, which was drawn underground. After saying a word, I counted one line up.

"The lower line of this hexagram is yin, frost, and ice. Xiang said: "Walking on frost and ice, yin begins to condense." Tame its way, to the ice. "Trampling on the thin frost, it can be inferred that the thick ice is about to freeze. The "Elephant Speech" says: Trampling on the thin frost, it can be inferred that the thick ice is about to freeze. This indicates that the cold air is beginning to condense, and the thick ice is about to freeze according to the laws of nature. The second line is yin, the words are straight, square, big, and there is no disadvantage if you are not used to it. Xiang said: The movement of 62 is straight to the square; There is no disadvantage if you don't get used to it, and the authentic light is also. This means sixty-two: straight, square, and vast are the characteristics of the earth. Even if you travel to an unfamiliar place, there is nothing disadvantageous. "Elephant Words" says: The elephant of 62 is straight and square, even if you go to a strange place, there is no disadvantage, because the tunnel is vast and boundless......"

The kaleidoscope said with relish, and I was about to go down to the third hexagram of the earth hexagram, so I hurriedly interrupted him: "Uncle Wan, you wait and then talk about it, let me ask you, I don't understand a little." ”

"Don't understand what?" He asked.

I scratched my head and smiled awkwardly: "What kind of book is this "Elephant Dictionaries" you just said? ”

Kaleidoscope smiled again when he heard this: "Big nephew, do you know that along with the acquired gossip of King Wen of this week, there are two other books named after "Yi"? ”

I paused for a moment, then smiled awkwardly again and shook my head.

"I can't blame you if I don't know, many people don't know. These three books are "Zhou Yi", "Lianshan Yi" and "Gui Zang Yi". ”

I frowned when I heard this, I remembered what he said, this "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi" and the Tang Dynasty's "Tui Bei Tu" have long been lost.

"Lianshan Yi", also known as "Lianshan". It is the earliest book of change in China, and its scriptures and hexagrams are all eight, and their differences are all sixty and four. Scholars have always thought that Lianshan Yi started with the Gen hexagram, such as the continuous mountains, hence the name Lianshan.

"Returning to Tibet", also known as "Returning to Tibet", is said to have been written by the emperor. "Returning to Tibet", in the traditional sense, is considered to be the "Book of Changes" of the Shang Dynasty, which has been lost after the Wei and Jin dynasties. "Shang Yi" takes Kun as the first hexagram, so it is called Guizang.

"Zhou Li? Chun Guan" said: "Taibu palms the method of three changes, one is called Lianshan, the second is called Tibet, and the third is Zhou Yi." There are eight hexagrams in the scriptures, and there are four in sixty. This means that "Lianshan", "Guizang", and "Zhou Yi" are three different methods of divination, but they are all composed of 64 hexagrams overlapping from the eight sutra hexagrams. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor wrote "Returning to Tibet", which has 4,300 words. The Song Dynasty Jia Xuan Weng said: "The book of the collection was written by the Yellow Emperor." And the sixty Jiazi and the congenital sixty-four hexagrams are parallel, and the middle heaven returns to Tibet. ”。

One said that "Returning to Tibet" was lost in the Han Dynasty, because "Han Shu? There is no record in the "Art and Literature Journal", "Sui Shu? The Chronicles of the Scriptures also said: ""Returning to Tibet" has died in the early Han Dynasty, and the Jin "Zhongjing" has it, but it contains divination, not like the will of the sage. Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty thought that the "Returning to Tibet" was not lost in the Han Dynasty, ""Lianshan" was hidden in Lantai, "Returning to Tibet" was hidden in Taibu, see Huan Tan's "New Treatise on the Orthologies", then "Lianshan" and "Returning to Tibet" in the Later Han Dynasty still existed, and it could not be doubted that "Art and Literature Chronicles" did not list their purposes. "Qing Zhu Yi Zunyun: ""Returning to Tibet" survived in the Sui Dynasty, and there were still three articles in the Song Dynasty, including "The First Classic", "Qi Mother", and "Ben Yong", which are cited in the commentary. ”

In March 1993, the archaeological work in the Qin Dynasty tomb at No. 15 Wangjiatai in Jiangling, Hubei Province unearthed the "Returning to the Collection", which was called the Wangjiatai Qin Jian Returning to the Collection, and the upsurge of studying the "Returning to the Collection" was restarted. Some people think that "Qin Jian's "Yi Zhan" is not only "Returning to Tibet", but more accurately, it should be "Zheng Mujing" in "Returning to Tibet"

Today, there are only seven articles, including "The First Classic", "Sixty-four Hexagrams", "Twelve Hexagrams", "Qi Mu Jing", "Zheng Mu Jing", "Ben Yong Chapter", and "Qi Zheng".

After explaining the ancient "Three Changes" and its origin, the kaleidoscope talked about the "Elephant Words" again.

"Elephant Words" is also known as "Zhou Yi Elephant Words". In the Zhou Dynasty, the "Three Changes" that circulated were the Xia Dynasty's "Yi Ci Yi" (Lianshan Yi), the Shang Dynasty's "Xiang Ci Yi" (Gui Zang Yi) and the Zhou Dynasty's "Wen Wang Yi". And in the end, the only Sanyi that has been handed down to us now is "Wen Wang Yi", which has been damaged for most of the time, that is, Zhou Yi. And this "Xiang Ci Yi" was renamed "Kun Qianyi" in later records, and the salt diet was because "Gui Zang Yi" took Kun as the first hexagram. The text of "Zhou Yi" was written by Wang Jichang of Zhou Wen. He cited "Lianshan Yi" and "Returning to Tibet" as evidence, and named it "Yi Yue and Xiang Yue". This pattern was widely popular in the Zhou Dynasty, which not only showed that King Jichang of Zhou Wen respected the writings of the ancients, but also created a precedent for "quoting scriptures".

In the Han Dynasty, the Confucian scholar Zheng Xuan adapted the "Zhou Yi" into the "Book of Changes", retaining this pattern, and adding "literary language and dictionaries" and so on. After verification, works such as "Wenyan and Dictionaries" are indeed not the original text of "Three Changes of the Zhou Dynasty". However, works such as "Bi Ci and Xiang Ci" are indeed from the original text of "Three Changes of the Zhou Dynasty".

Therefore, the "Xiang Ci" of "Zhou Yi" is part of the words and sentences that King Wen of Zhou quoted from the Shang Dynasty's "Kun Qianyi" (Xiang Ci Yi) as evidence.

I didn't understand a sentence of the kaleidoscope's endless talk, and made a vague "uh" a few times, and he wanted to go on, so I hurriedly stopped his speech: "Uncle Shi, we are still in the fight, life and death are uncertain, you see that we should solve the mechanism of these three pipes first, and then I will ask you for advice when I have time." ”

As soon as I said this, the kaleidoscope seemed to be standing on the podium of Peking University and the high-profile speech was instantly "out of the play", he scratched his head and laughed twice: "Look at it, I have found the feeling of lecturing on the podium again, and I have forgotten that we are still fighting." To make a long story short, the most important hexagram in this Kun Weidi is Shangliuyao. "The dragon fights in the wilderness, and its blood is yellow." , which means that dragons fight on the earth, and blood flows all over the field. This is a great hexagram, so this one warns us that we must read the score one last time, so that we can pass through the mechanism of this tomb safely. ”

I frowned when I heard it, I always felt that this mask and the hexagram of this kun for the earth explained a little far-fetched, the previous mask said "Xun for the wind and mountain wind Gu" This complexity is more simple and clear than this hexagram, just a sentence "The dragon fights in the wild, its blood is yellow" is perfunctory, but I have no better explanation, so I had to nod and acquiesce in his inference.

Kaleidoscope looked at my face, and it was obvious that he saw my doubts, but seeing that I didn't say it, he didn't pierce the doubts himself.

"Long story short, I've smoked five or six cigarettes, so don't wait for me to get impatient." Grimace Zhang walked over at this time, his face was gloomy and paralyzed, and he whispered.