In the pre-Qin period of China, there was no numerology at this time, but the people of at that time had a common concept, that is, the world is composed of "qi", so Zhuangzi said, "The world is connected with one qi."
It was from that time that ancient sages had a great assumption, If the world is composed of "qi", then as long as I know how "qi" changes and operates, can I infer a result? Everyone should understand the logic of
, which is equivalent to doing a reasoning question. By seeking unknowns through the knowledge, the sages gradually realized that qi is divided into yin and yang, and yin and yang are divided into five elements, and they have a deeper understanding of the operation of "qi".
Of course, the pre-Qin era was extremely chaotic, and it was not until Qin unified the six kingdoms, and then Liu Bang established Han Dynasty , and numerology began to have some signs.
Dong Zhongshu Everyone knows that all schools of thought were abolished and Confucianism was respected. He included the ideas of Yin and Yang and Five Elements in the pre-Qin era into Confucianism and established a huge system. This system also talks about fate, but it talks about "national destiny" , and it contains moral factors.
The entire The Western Han Dynasty was affected by this, so the study of prophecies and divination was very popular at that time, that is, to predict the future, and to predict the future of the country . Of course, this is not possible for the rulers. If anyone is determined to rebel and deliberately write a prediction book and say that he is the destiny of heaven, what is that?
Therefore, after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Cao Wei regime and the later Jin Dynasty clearly prohibited the prediction of national destiny. It was from this time that the Confucianism among the people no longer cared about predicting the "national destiny", but began to predict the fate of individuals.
After the development of the Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties , Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, it was Middle Tang . The entire prediction system of numerology was initially formed, and the first master of numerology was born. He was Li Xuzhong . His amazingness lies in the establishment of the first model of Eight Character Fortune Telling .
We all know that the eight characters are year, month, day and time, but when Li Xuzhong established the model, it was fetal, month, day and time, and fetal refers to ten months of pregnancy.
Li Xuzhong has a lot of contents. From him, numerology has roughly formed . Later, many numerology masters have corrected and improved its prediction model . Until , numerology ushered in the second major change in in the Song Dynasty.
After more than 300 years of development, the eight-character model established by Li Xuzhong is becoming increasingly difficult to inherit. Because is too complicated, and at this time, knowledge dissemination is easier and the audience is larger, the threshold must be lowered. Li Xuzhong's old method cannot be transmitted.
So at this time a numerology master appeared, Xu Ziping . He corrected Li Xuzhong's eight-character model and changed the four pillars to the "year, month, day and time" we often use now.
Of course, has more than four pillars to modify. Basically, the eight-character model has been simplified and makes it easier to learn.
After Xu Ziping made such a great reform, Xu Dasheng, a contemporary of , pushed his eight-character model to the people and wrote an important numerology work - " Yuanhaiziping ", which is basically a must-have reading material in numerology.
From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, Xu Ziping's improved eight-character model was popular among the people, and numerology also developed rapidly. finally wrote the synthesis of numerology from the Ming Dynasty's 0,000 people and uk .
This is basically an encyclopedia of numerology, with quite a lot of contents , and it is also a necessary manual for us today to learn numerology.
From the Ming Dynasty to in the Qing Dynasty, numerology developed rapidly, and two classic works appeared. one is "Zi Ping Zhenquan" and the other is " Drops of Tianzhi ".
numerologist Fang Re-examined in the early years of the Republic of China, believed that "Zi Ping Zhenquan" is the "rule" for learning numerology, which is the so-called rules, and "Di Tianxie" is a clever idea that you must understand when learning numerology. That is to say, just knowing rules and rules is not enough. Many things in the world are complicated, so you need to use cleverness at this time.
After thousands of years of development, numerology has become quite mature. Later, " Poverty Tong Baojian " was leaked among the people, which is also a very important numerology classic.
After , the situation was turbulent, and saving the country became the mainstream of society. numerology also faced the challenge of moving from "feudal society" to "modern society".
At this time, a master of numerology appeared. He is Xu Lewu of the Republic of China. He annotated, revised and then published it in a concentrated manner, which played a role in inheriting the past and opening up the future.
After the cross-strait division, the development of numerology was mainly in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among them, the famous Hong Kong figure is Wei Qianli, and the famous Taiwanese figure is Liang Xiangrun . Liang Xiangrun was born in Shanghai in 1930 and died of illness in Taipei in 2013.
Since the 1980s, the " Chinese studies hot " has emerged in the mainland, and the research on the development of numerology has also been transferred to the mainland. The main figures include Shao Weihua and the "blind" Duan Jianye .
To this day, scientific concepts have been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and China's industrialization is also in full swing. How to develop and continue numerology with a more rational, scientific and rigorous attitude is the task of today's people. In fact, since the pre-Qin period, the ancients explored destiny step by step based on rationality.