|
|
|
| Numeral Diagrams in Divination Chu Bamboo Slips and the Mantic Art on the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips |
| WU Xiao-xin |
| School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072 |
|
|
|
|
Abstract The mantic art on the Tsinghua bamboo slips and the divination on Chu bamboo slips excavated at Tianxingguan, Boashan,and Geling Village belong to the same system: numeral diagrams. However, it differs from the above three divination Chu bamboo slips in following aspects: the numeral diagrams of the latter are the records of actual divinations, the numeral diagrams of the former are divinatory principles and methods recorded on the slips. There are 114 numeral diagrams on the Tsinghua bamboo slips concerning divination, composed of six digits: “一(one）”, “四（four）”, “五(five)”, “ 六(six)”, “八(eight)” , and “九(nine)”.Theoretically, six digits constitute a 6-digit numeral diagram, and altogether produce 46656 results. But the mantic art on the Tsinghua bamboo slips recorded only 114 of them, which might have been screened and summarized. The numeral diagrams on the Tsinghua bamboo slips appeared in pairs, but they were not in a bengua-zhigua relationship. It took the divinatory method by four numbers (which form a trigram), with the factors like “year(年)”,“month（月）”, and“date（日）”in divination and “man and woman (男女)”, “left and right (左右)” , “zhaomu (昭穆)” “shuru(数入)” taken into account. It is a divinatory method of unique principles.
|
|
Received: 17 December 2014
|
|
|
|
|
|
[1] 李学勤.清华简《筮法》与数字卦问题[J].文物,2013,（8）.
[2] 李学勤.清华大学藏战国竹简（四）[M].上海:中西书局,2013.
[3] 邴尚白.葛陵楚简研究[M].台北:国立台湾大学出版中心,2009.142.
[4] 陈伟.包山楚简初探[M].武汉:武汉大学出版社,1996.151-156.
[5] 湖北省荆沙铁路考古队.包山楚简[M].北京:文物出版社,1991.32-33.
[6] 河南省文物考古研究所.新蔡葛陵楚墓[M].郑州:大象出版社,2003.192-194.
[7] 程浩.清华简《筮法》与周代占筮系统[J].周易研究,2013,（6）.
[8] 程浩.略论《筮法》的解卦原则[A].李学勤.出土文献（第四辑）[C].上海:中西书局,2013.105.
[9] 程浩.《筮法》占法与“大衍之数”[J].深圳大学学报（人文社会科学版）,2014,（1）.
[10] 林忠军.清华简《筮法》筮占法探微[J].周易研究,2014,（2）. |
|
|
|
2016, Vol. 33 
