The Complete Collection of Chinese Divination brings together thirty works on traditional Chinese arts of divination: The Ten Thousand Techniques of Huainan, Supplement to The Ten Thousand Techniques of Huainan, The Precious Mirror for Travel, An Overview of the Numbers in the Yuan Bao, The Great Principles of the Five Elements, The Correct Method of the Changes by the Daoist Master Mayi, The Tortoise Divination of Bing and Ding, Auspicious Omens, Jiao's Forest of Changes, The Book of Divination in the Spring and Autumn Period, The Classic of the Spirit Chess, The Jingyou Classic of the Six Ren Method of Divine Calculation, The Record of the Spring Calendar, The Divination of the Year Yisi, The Book of Rain Signs, Astronomical Divinations, The Record of Divination, The Earth Ox Classic, The Four-Character Classic, Li Xuzhong's Book of Destiny, Notes on the Three Destinies by Luoluozi, Commentary on Luoluozi's Rhapsody, The Rhapsody on the Three Destinies, The Secret Principles of Qianyuan, The Original Principles of Tianbu, The Divine Mirror of the Great Purity, Characters as Omens, The Secretly Transmitted Water Dragon Classic, Divining by Clouds, and The Essentials of Dream Divination.
These thirty works have circulated only to a limited extent. They cover nearly every aspect of traditional Chinese divination, including fortune-telling, the trigrams of the Book of Changes, yin and yang and the five elements, astrology, dream interpretation, destiny analysis, physiognomy, character divination, Taiyi, Liu Ren, and Qimen Dunjia. Together, they give a broad picture of the basic content and character of ancient Chinese divination. One book brings together the best of them. It is of great cultural value and offers both substantial theory and practical use.
