Mei Hua Yi Shu is a predictive art created by ancient people based on the mathematics and imagery of Yi studies.
Why is it called Mei Hua Yi Shu? It is said that one day, the great Song Dynasty Yi scholar, Mr. Shao Kangjie, was enjoying the Mei Hua blossoms in the garden when he saw two sparrows fighting. He felt strange and thus cast a divination, predicting that the next day a girl would break a flower, the gardener would unknowingly chase her, causing the girl to fall and get hurt, but without life-threatening danger. The next day, everything happened as predicted, and people at that time found it very magical. They could deduce things that had nothing to do with the divination, and later called this method Mei Hua Yi Shu.
Note: Although the book "Observing Mei Hua and Disassembling Characters" is attributed to Shao Kangjie, it was later verified to have been written in the Ming Dynasty and is a pseudonymous work by later generations. However, the entire book also contains many principles of Mr. Shao Kangjie, so the author must have been someone who has studied Shao's Yi studies in depth, and then combined his own understanding of Yi studies with the methods passed down by folk masters to create a school of Mei Hua Yi Shu. Therefore, we modern learners of Mei Hua Yi Shu also often call Mr. Shao Kangjie the progenitor.
The calculation method of Mei Hua Yi Shu is very flexible and changeable, emphasizing a spontaneous action, but not arbitrary use. It is to use flexibly without sticking to one place and to combine it with the theory of things.
Many people do not understand this point, and they simply use the meaning of the body and the use of the life and death, the rise and fall of the hexagrams to determine good and bad luck, which is very easy to make mistakes.
When we learn Mei Hua Yi Shu, the first thing we come into contact with is the theory of the body and the use of the life and death, the rise and fall of the hexagrams. Many people think that if the body conquers the use, this matter is auspicious, is it really like this? I will list an example for you:
On February 20, 2021, one of my students was starting school and said that the sun was very fierce on the day of school opening, asking if I should bring thick clothes to the college?The hexagram is: Heaven and Fire, the same people change to the marsh fire and change, the mutual heaven and the wind are mixed.Four values: Xin Chou year, Geng Yin month, Wu Xu day, Geng Shen time.
According to the normal thinking, the body hexagram is separated from the fire, which conquers the cold of the Qian hexagram, and is also born by the Xun wood, and the month is Geng Yin, and the body hexagram is in the air, and the change hexagram is the Dui Yin wet and is also conquered by me, which is a good fire and life, naturally, there is no need to bring thick clothes, just bring spring clothes, but in fact, it is wrong.Although the separation of the hexagram conquers the Qian, Qian is the cold air, the use of the party is more in the hexagram, and the combination of Dui is the Yin wet, and the bottom sees the Xun as the wind and cold air. Although Qian is not in the month, the day and time are all born, which shows that although the power is not enough to reverse the guest as the host, it is not in a dead place. At this time, the separation of the hexagram conquers the Qian hexagram, which requires a lot of energy, so there is a saying that Qian consumes the separation of the air. And in the hexagram, the cold and wet air is obvious, and it consumes me.Here, someone may ask, isn't it also me conquering the other party? Here, I ask you a question, the cold air consumes me, can it affect me, disperse my energy, and then correspond to the personnel, isn't it the temperature at that time that can make people feel cold and need to be dealt with? If you wait for Qian's cold air to imprison the separation, it will be a weather that can freeze people to death. At this time, it is necessary to help the separation of the air, and the separation of the image is the armor and clothing, so the thick clothes naturally need to be brought.Finally, the feedback was that it was very cold for two weeks at school, and it was good to bring thick clothes!Flexibility and change, reasonable to respond to the theory of things. It is the way to be taken.Please note that this is a summarized translation and certain details and nuances may not be captured in the translation. If you need a full and precise translation, it would be best to use a professional translation service.