genius divination

Chapter 811 The Study of Jingwei
Fan Jiannan returned to the Tianji Hall and saw that Long Ge was not in the study, but was arguing with Cang Yunxiao in the living room.He smiled and walked over and said, "What's the matter? Professor Long is in a good mood today, and he is willing to walk out of your room."

Long Ge looked back at him and said, "Jiannan, you came just in time. I have discovered something about the ancient shamanistic writing on the jade charm."

"Oh?" Fan Jiannan was taken aback, then hurried over and said, "What did you find?"

Long Ge waved at him and said, "Look at this, this is a character that I found from Shuishi Lianshanyi that is similar to the Wuwen on the jade charm, but the rest are not of the same type. From this, we can roughly draw a conclusion that the Shuishi Lianshanyi took a long time to complete, so the text contained in it was not produced at the same time. So I focused on studying some of the symbols similar to jade talismans, and finally got The results were somewhat surprising.”

"Then what is the meaning of the ancient symbol on the jade talisman, that is, the kind of shamanism you mentioned?" Fan Jiannan frowned.

"This is a set of stem and branch numbers." Long Ge said slowly.

Fan Jiannan was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said, "You mean the heavenly stems and earthly branches?"

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, referred to as "dry branches".It is used to arrange the year number and date in the summer calendar.In the ancient Chinese calendar, Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui are called "ten heavenly stems", and Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai are called the "Twelve Earthly Branches".

The ten stems and the twelve branches are matched in turn to form sixty basic units, and the two cooperate with each other in a fixed order to form the system of stems and branches.Judging from the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed at the Yin Ruins, the Tiangandizhi were mainly used to record the date in ancient my country, and they were also used to record the month, year, and time.The eight-character theory commonly used in Chinese metaphysics is represented by the stems and branches, and the exact time of birth is taken.

As a hexagram master, Fan Jiannan was naturally familiar with these things.He frowned and said, "So, the ancient Shamanic inscription on it refers to a set of time?"

Long Ge shook his head and said, "The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are the symbols set up by the ancients for the convenience of making sexages when they built their calendars. For the ancient Chinese, the existence of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches is as simple as Arabic numerals. And Later, these symbols began to be used on maps, directions, and time, so these numbers were endowed with more and more meanings. In my opinion, the ordinal numbers of the stems and branches above do not necessarily refer to time as simple as that.”

But Cang Yunxiao interjected, "The ancients observed the synodic months and found that two synodic months are about 59 days. Twelve synodic months are generally more than 350 and four days, which is similar to the length of a return year. Therefore, the ancients got a year. There is a concept of 12 months. With the diary method of ten heavenly stems, the yin and yang combined calendar is produced, and the current heavenly stems and earthly branches are developed; when it is more mature, it should be in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Judging from the age of this jade talisman, the stems and branches at that time Timing is not yet ripe. So that's unlikely to be the conclusion."

Long Ge frowned and said, "As I said before, these stem and branch ordinal numbers are not necessarily used to count time. Besides, although the maturity of stem and branch timing was in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it has developed a long time before. So It is not possible to infer that this conclusion is wrong simply based on time.”

"Okay, okay." Fan Jiannan waved his hand and said, "You guys gave me a headache. Professor Long, why do you think this is the number of stems and branches? Do you have any definite evidence?"

Long Ge pointed to a set of graphics drawn on the table and said, "Look at this, this is the symbol on the jade talisman. Look at the second picture, this is the character I got after disassembling these graphics .It is completely in line with the ancient variant characters used in the ghost text of Shuishi, and the ordinal numbers of the heavenly stems and earthly branches are completely consistent."

"It might be a coincidence." Cang Yunxiao shook his head.

"Okay! One piece of jade talisman may be a coincidence, but look, all three of our jade talismans match this feature, how can this be explained? It is impossible for all three jade talismans to have such a coincidence?" Long Ge took another Pick up a few sheets of paper next to it.The entire figure was also decomposed on this piece of paper, and indeed several relatively independent symbols were obtained.

"But it's too hard to believe that the shamanic characters on this ancient jade talisman only refer to a set of stem and branch numbers." Cang Yunxiao frowned and said, "I feel that this should be some kind of talisman character that has been lost for a long time. A character or every stroke and composition has a practical meaning, and it should not be broken down so simply."

"Okay, okay." Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "To confirm this, there is an easier way!"

"What way?" Long Ge asked in amazement.

Fan Jiannan took out the jade talisman he got from Bimihu from his pocket and put it on the table, "See if this jade talisman also applies to the law you mentioned, if it does, then the decomposition you said There might be a theory about composition.”

Long Ge was slightly startled and said, "This... is another piece?"

"Yes, I got it from Bimihu." Fan Jiannan nodded, "Now we have four jade talismans, and I also know who has the fifth jade talisman."

"The fifth jade talisman? Isn't it at Bimihu's place?" Cang Yunxiao said in amazement.

Fan Jiannan sighed and said, "Someone attacked first."

"What?" Long Ge said in surprise, "Could it be the Council of Yishu?"

"No, don't worry about this for now. You'd better look at this jade talisman." Fan Jiannan waved his hand.

Long Ge picked up the jade talisman and looked at it, nodded and said, "As I expected, the graphics on this jade talisman can also be deconstructed into a set of stem and branch numbers." After speaking, he wrote down on the paper Fan Jiannan and Cang Yunxiao handed a set of stem and branch numbers.

Cang Yunxiao frowned and said, "But I still can't figure it out. The number of stems and branches on these jade talismans is different. What does this mean? Moreover, our general counting of stems and branches corresponds to a heavenly stem and an earthly branch. That is to say, the stems and branches must be used in pairs, but according to your decomposition, this group of stems and branches only has five characters. There are three heavenly stems and two earthly branches, and they cannot be paired at all."

"To be honest, I have thought about it for a long time, but I don't know what it is for?" Long Ge said with a wry smile.

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "In the theory of yin and yang and five elements, the stems and branches are divided into yin and yang according to their order. Every odd number belongs to yang, and every even number belongs to yin. Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu are yang; B, D, Ji, Xin, and Gui of the heavenly stems, and Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai of the earthly branches are yin numbers. On this basis, the hexagrams are based on the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint. Theory, calculate the harmony, rise and fall, conflict and birth and death of personnel and affairs. But if you look at it this way, isn’t every jade talisman an earth branch missing?”

Long Ge nodded and said, "That's right. Why, did you think of something?"

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "When I was just learning hexagrams, I was still very young, and it was mainly my grandfather who taught me some basic formulas and palm formulas. I remember he once said that in the sky, the image is formed, and in the earth. Formation depends on people’s luck. The way of heaven and the way of authenticity determine the way of humanity, so the heavenly stems and earthly branches are set up to match the fate of heaven, earth and personnel. Looking at it, the stems and branches appeared earlier. Therefore, the stems and branches are the study of latitude and longitude. Longitude runs through north and south, connecting up and down; latitude runs through east and west, connecting left and right. I wonder if this is not time, will it refer to orientation? "

"Vertical and horizontal latitude and longitude?" Long Ge thought for a while and said, "You mean that the stems and branches correspond to a certain direction?"

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "I heard from Bi Mihu that there is a mysterious location in each of the five mountains, which has a corresponding relationship with these jade talismans, but she doesn't really understand what it looks like, or she understands it but doesn't know it. I am willing to say it. From this point of view, these signs of the stem and branch probably represent a certain direction." He took out a pen and began to draw on a piece of paper.

What he draws are lines, ten vertical lines vertically and twelve horizontal lines horizontally.Then he wrote down the corresponding stem and branch numbers on each line.

Cang Yunxiao said in surprise, "Longitude and latitude positioning?"

"Of course not, but there are some similarities in theory." Fan Jiannan said slowly, "Look, if this is a map, then any location on this map can be found based on the horizontal and vertical numbers. Location."

"It's kind of like a coordinate positioning method?" Feng Yuan asked curiously, "Would ancient people come up with such a clever method?"

Cang Yunxiao shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Latitude and longitude are the combination of longitude and latitude to form a coordinate system. Longitude is the east or west of a point on the earth from a north-south line called the prime meridian. The degree to the west. Latitude refers to the line-surface angle formed by the connection line between a certain point and the center of the earth and the equatorial plane of the earth, and its value is between 0 and 90 degrees. Latitude and longitude are the combination of longitude and latitude to form a coordinate system. Therefore, any location in the world can be designated. But how to determine the zero degree on this jade talisman? Moreover, the numbers on this jade talisman are two and a half sets. Even if the two sets of numbers can barely be regarded as coordinates, how can the extra half set be explained? ?”

Fan Jiannan smiled slightly and said, "I have a guess. You see, the signs of stems and branches on each piece of jade talisman are different. So I guess, this is a regional coordinate system.

"Regional?" Long Ge frowned, "What do you mean?"

"I understand." Feng Yuan said suddenly, "Each piece of these jade talismans represents a famous mountain. The highest peak of the mountain it represents is the center of the picture. That is to say, the criss-crossing latitude and longitude, Sixty intersection points are formed, that is, sixty areas near the highest peak. The number of stems and branches on the jade talisman points to one point in these sixty areas. The last half group of stems and branches does not represent a position , but height."

"That's right, what these stems and branches point to is not a plane coordinate system, but a three-dimensional coordinate system. East-west, north-south, plus height." Fan Jiannan smiled slightly, "As long as we unravel the characters of these ancient stems and branches, then we can find the coordinates in the Five Sacred Mountains. A special place nearby, the meaning of this jade talisman is equivalent to an ancient map."

(End of this chapter)