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Author | 東方朔 |
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Dynasty | Han |
Base text | 《藏修堂叢書》本 |
Data item | ctext:154889 |
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As its name suggests, the work concerns "divining" with tokens, such as Chinese chess (xiangqi i.e.象棋) pieces (instead of with the more traditional turtle shells or yarrow stalks used in I Ching divination).
Twelve Xiangqi pieces are used; each piece is a disc with a character on one side, and the other side unmarked. Four have the character for "up" (, pronounced shang), four have the character for "middle" (, zhong), and four have the character for "down" (, xia), representing respectively the Three Realms: Heaven (, tian), Humanity (, ren), and Earth (, di).
These pieces are cast onto a surface, and the text of the Lingqijing the resulting combination is in for what fortune the combination means.
The text of the Lingqijing has an entry for all 125 combinations (i.e., three kinds of pieces, times the five possibilities for each kind: one through four pieces landing face up, or none).
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