My years as a fortune teller

Using the 64 hexagrams of the "Book of Changes" to set up checkpoints, the test is not how much you know about the "Book of Changes", but what you have realized and how to treat each hexagram?Those who can set up such levels can be said to be the masters of Yi.

But wouldn't it be too difficult for such a level to test ordinary people?After all, there are many people who have read the "Book of Changes" in today's society, but they mainly read simple annotations, and no one can study them thoroughly.Many scholars have studied a lot, but only limited to certain fields.If it is some Fengshui masters, that is unlikely. Fengshui masters now mostly focus on Bazi, plus various Fengshui theories.So who is this checkpoint set up for is an insoluble mystery in my mind.

There is another question that I can't figure out. If we have all gone through so many levels, then Zhang Qicheng and others who went down to the underground palace in advance, have they also gone through these?If they went through this, how did they pass the level?Who among these people has such an understanding of the "Book of Changes" and can pass the checkpoint smoothly?

When I was thinking about this question, I saw Su Huier cheered and sat down on an ancient bed.This bed is very typical, divided into four layers: the first layer is used to put the foot wraps, girls in the past had to bind their feet, and the foot wraps are very smelly, so they are hung on the outermost; the second layer is the dressing room; the third The first floor is the bathroom, and the innermost floor is the bedroom.The whole bed is fully equipped, which is equivalent to our small suite with three bedrooms and one living room in Hangzhou.There is a small flat plate behind this bed, what is this for?

People in ancient China believed that there were gods in everything, such as the door god, the kitchen god, and the bed god, which was used to worship the bed god. The bed god liked to drink tea and the bed woman liked to drink. Five cups of tea and one cup of light wine are offered to them.

On each layer, techniques such as piercing carving, round carving, relief carving, intaglio carving and hollowing out are integrated.It shows the prominent status and extraordinary life experience of the owner of this bed before his death.More than 100 auspicious beasts of different shapes are carved on the whole bed. Because the homonym of "hundred beasts" is "baishou", it is painted and pasted with gold, cinnabar, lacquer and other lacquers.

When I was visiting Wuzhen, Zhejiang, I went to the Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum, which is known as the first museum in China that specializes in collecting and exhibiting ancient beds from the south of the Yangtze River. The local people also call it Zhaojiating.I have seen a bed like this before, and of course there is a treasure in it - the Babu Qiangong bed from the Qing Dynasty.This bed has now been listed as the number one bed by Zhonghua Collection and Lucky Heirloom.

The ancient bed in front of me is completely comparable to the ones in the ancient bed museum.But such a good bed, don't you think it's strange to put it here?There are other pieces of furniture, all made of precious wood.

Professor He walked to the desk, picked up a brush and looked at it.He shouted to me: "Huzi, come and see, this should be a Zhuge pen. This is unique now, and it can be said to be a national treasure among national treasures."

The Zhuge brush mentioned by Professor He was made by Zhuge Gao, a famous pen maker in the Southern Tang Dynasty.Later, after the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhuge Gao's pen became an indispensable thing for the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty.Whether it is Ehuang, the wife of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, or Congqian, the younger brother, as well as Su Shi and Ouyang Xiu who later praised Zhuge Bi.Also because the Zhuge pen is made of mouse whiskers, it is also called "mouse whisker pen".

I walked over to have a look, picked up the ink, looked at it, put it on my nose and smelled it.He said to Professor He: "This ink has not been polished, but it has a natural fragrance. Musk and gold leaf are added to it. It should be Longxiang ink. It is also something from the Song Dynasty. Although it is still there today, the taste is not so natural. .”

Professor He sniffed it on his nose, nodded and said, "Who do you think lives here? Each of these things used is more luxurious than the other. If you take out any one, you can exchange it for another at Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong." Set up a big house with a hundred feet."

I smiled and pointed to the inkstone with the lid on it and said: "If you add the She inkstone with Gao Fenghan's signature, these three items can probably buy half of Wall Street. Not to mention the rice paper on it, this is still jade board Xuan, It’s hard to buy a thousand dollars now, hehe, almost everyone who sees this will salivate.”

Professor He picked up the rice paper and looked at it, then looked back at me and said, "Yes, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable about the Four Treasures of the Study that you could recognize it at a glance. This is Yubanxuan. Did you also study and learn calligraphy. "

I smiled and said to him: "Don't look at me, my handwriting is like a dog crawling. It's not easy to say. When the master asked me to copy some things, I used a brush to record them neatly. You Thinking about how many strange people there are in Zhongnan Mountain, even if I don’t know, someone will tell me. Hey! If I didn’t break my wrist last time, maybe I’m a calligrapher now.”

Professor He glared at me, and said with a smile: "It is said that you are fat and panting, you will die if you don't have to! But it is really surprising that you can recognize so many things. It seems that your master , specifically want to train you to be a generation of masters."

I put down the things in my hand, picked up a book and turned a few pages and said to him: "My master didn't ask me to do anything in particular, nor did I ask me to learn anything in particular. It all depends on my own interests and hobbies, as well as my own. hard work. To put it bluntly, master leads the door to practice on one’s own.” After I finished speaking, I put down the book and walked to look elsewhere.

At this time, I completely forgot that the main purpose of coming here is to find a way out.Not only did I forget, but the rest of the people didn't remember either.Gao Shengwen and Daren were sitting on the ancient bed laughing and laughing with Su Huier.He also asked me to go there with Professor He. I definitely wouldn't go there, but Professor He walked over and immediately took out his professional knowledge to tell them the origin of the ancient bed.

I shook my head, and looked at the secret room with a figure of eight gait.Seriously, if one forgets that this is a secret room, it can be said that this is a room in which a man of life lives and studies.Not to mention the extravagant and luxurious furnishings in the house, I have never seen some books.Because there are many classical Chinese texts, I have to read them with the help of ancient Chinese dictionaries, otherwise I might just sit here and forget to eat and sleep to read.

Therefore, it is said that it is a blessing in disguise, because there is no ancient Chinese dictionary, so I did not read the books here, but I escaped a catastrophe because of this.After strolling around, I went back to the door, and suddenly found a monkey-like thing standing there, glaring.

Monkey, why is there a monkey in this room?I rubbed my eyes and looked, fainted, where is the monkey, is it clearly a mandrill!Mandrill, oops!I'm in a stone chamber, and just now I was dizzy and thought I was visiting a luxurious ancient room!

not good!There is a **** fragrant medicine here, I almost fell for it.Thinking of this, I raised my hand and slapped myself twice loudly.There was a burning pain on my face, but I suddenly woke up.

But when I looked at the mandrill again, I suddenly realized that it was not the face of the mandrill, but the face of an elder, who was looking at me kindly and smiling at me knowingly.Oops!Could it be that I have been poisoned too deeply by the incense, will I have hallucinations again?

Thinking of this, when I was about to slap myself twice, the mandrill jumped over and grabbed my hand.As soon as it took my hand, my heart suddenly became clear.I lowered my head and nodded towards it, as a thank you to it.

When I turned around and was about to go to pull everyone up, the mandrill grabbed me and pointed to the top of the stone chamber.I looked up, and it turned out that the top was an eight-treasure glazed revolving lantern, and as the revolving lantern turned around, a faint pink mist floated out of it.

Because the smoke is so faint, it's hard to spot.But the strange thing is, why the people inside are busy, but the mandrill standing at the door has no accident?Could it be that this pink smog isn't the real scent, but that it has to be mixed with other scents to make people lose their minds?If this is the case, this hexagram also reflects