Chapter 401 Chapter 9: The Mystery of Hexagrams

I happened to be at my grandfather's house on the fifth day of the new year.Because relatives like to pick up guests during the Chinese New Year, I am busy visiting relatives during the second, sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days of the first day of the new year, and the rest of the time seems to be leisurely.When I am free, I often go to my grandpa's house, usually early in the morning and back in the evening. On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I finished my meal early and walked to my grandfather's house in the mist.My mother once joked to me that it would be best for me to find a wife nearby, so that it is convenient to come and go during the Chinese New Year.She was comparing herself to her father.

As soon as I stepped into my grandpa's house, I heard grandma say what kind of dream she had last night. Grandpa explained: "This dream indicates that there will be guests today!" I didn't hear clearly what my grandma said in the dream, but just when my grandpa said "a guest is coming", I just stepped into the door and shouted: "Grandpa, grandma, I'm here again!" Grandma laughed and said, "Oh, my good grandson is here! Your grandpa is really accurate in dream-testing. Just now he said that there are guests coming, and you came. Hurry up, go into the house and warm up. Your hair is full of mist .”

Grandpa and grandma haven't eaten yet. They are old and get up too early to be afraid of the cold. I sat next to the stove to warm up the fire, and they began to set up dishes and chopsticks for dinner.Grandma accidentally knocked off the chopsticks on the table. With a "swipe" sound, all the chopsticks were scattered on the ground.The grandma laughed and said that her grandson was so happy that she was not careful when doing things, and bent down to pick up the chopsticks. Grandpa, who was squatting next to the iron pot to serve vegetables, turned around to look, and hurriedly stopped grandma: "Don't move! I think the posture of the chopsticks is a little different."

When grandpa said this, grandma and I were stunned, staring at the chopsticks on the ground. "What's the matter with you? What's the difference if the chopsticks fall on the ground?" Grandma said to grandpa rather dissatisfied, recovering from the freeze, and continued to reach out for the chopsticks. Grandpa hastily put down the things in his hands, stopped grandma's hand, and said softly, "Look again." I looked at the chopsticks on the ground, and there was indeed something different.There are two pairs of chopsticks, which are basically parallel to each other and stacked to form a "well" shape.But the word "well" is very crooked, like a child who just went to school drew it bluntly.However, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about the chopsticks scattered on the ground arranged like this.I raised my head and looked to Grandpa for answers.Grandma looked down for a while, and said, "Scattering chopsticks is not something that happens once or twice, and I haven't seen anything special this time."

Grandpa said: "Judging from this hexagram, not only our grandson is coming to our house today. After a while, there will be guests coming." Grandma didn't take it seriously, grabbed the chopsticks on the ground, and said: "This is chopsticks. One is not a hexagram board, and the other is not a copper coin. How can you see the hexagram from inside? I think you should hurry up and put the dishes up, and wait a while." But it’s cold.” Then, grandma turned her head and asked me, “Liangzi, don’t you think so?” I had no choice but to cooperate with grandma and say yes again and again.At that time, I didn't guess that the old peasants from Lishu Village would come when Grandpa said "you are coming", so I didn't care about Grandpa's guess.

Grandpa argued: "The hexagram image can only be seen from the hexagram board and copper coins and so on. Everything in the world can be a hexagram, just a number, a sound, a Chinese character, etc., etc., such a hexagram There are many elephants." "Oh? So what?" I asked curiously.As long as it is a question I ask, grandma will not interfere even if she is not interested, she will even pretend to be very interested. Grandma immediately changed her tone, and then asked grandpa, "That's right, why can these things become hexagrams? You didn't trick our grandson to play, did you? Tell us."

Grandpa smiled and said, "How could I lie to you? If you want to hear it, I will start with the simplest number. It is a simple and highly accurate method to start a hexagram directly by counting. When someone asks When measuring something, you can ask someone to say two numbers at will, the first number is taken as the upper hexagram, the second number is taken as the lower hexagram, the sum of the two numbers is divided by six, and the remainder is the dynamic line, or you can choose it casually Borrow other methods that can get two numbers to form a hexagram, such as turning over a book, or turning over a calendar, etc. The more difficult thing is to form a hexagram after the day after tomorrow. The hexagram of the direction of the eight trigrams is the lower hexagram, the number of the upper and lower hexagrams is added and divided by six, and the remainder is taken as the moving line. I often use this method myself. The third one is to start the hexagram according to the sound. For any sound that can be heard, count the sound to make the upper hexagram, and add the time to match the lower hexagram. Such as the sound of animals singing, knocking on the door Hexagrams can be made by other people’s voices. If there is an interval in the voice heard, the number of tones before the interval can be taken as the upper hexagram, the number of tones after the interval can be taken as the lower hexagram, and the number of up and down hexagrams plus the number of hours can be used as the moving line The fourth is to start the hexagram by the number of strokes or the number of characters. When there are few characters, count by strokes. , zhangchi, and sizes are all numbers, and they can also be used to form hexagrams. That’s why I said that everything in the world can be a hexagram, but most of the hexagrams are ordinary, and it’s meaningless to think about it The chopsticks just now are placed in the Difeng Sheng Gua, the word "sheng" in the Difeng Sheng Gua has the meaning of ascending the ranks, and the Zhendui Gua appears in the mutual Gua, which has the difference between the East and the West. For the mouth, Kun’s hexagram image is the abdomen, as a matter of food and drink, so I said that today there are guests coming to eat.” It turned out that I mistakenly mistook the word "sheng" for the word "well".

After listening to my grandfather's explanation, I seem to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything. Grandma just put her hand away, shook her head and said, "This is too troublesome, and people who don't specialize in this can't understand it. According to you, you can predict everything based on the current hexagram?" When saying "the current hexagram", point to all the objects in the room with your hands. Grandma's actions gave me an unprecedented feeling - we have been living in the hexagrams, these hexagrams show us the vision of the future, and almost all of us Turning a blind eye to these displays, only a very few can penetrate their mysteries.It's a pity that because people spend much more ordinary time than special time in their lives, these very few people are unwilling to pay attention to these hexagrams all the time, so that these hexagrams are useless.