"The Book of Plum Blossoms" is a divination method derived from the "Book of Changes" and is said to be related to Shao Yong, a scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty. Its name has a sense of story - it is said that Shao Yong once saw birds fighting on the branches of plum blossoms, and he casually predicted that a woman would break the flowers and fall and get injured. Later, it came true, hence the name.
The biggest feature of this divination method is its "flexibility and simplicity". There is no need to read complicated classics or prepare special tools. Divinations can be derived everywhere in life: looking at the time, remembering a direction, listening to a sound, or even picking up a leaf can be used to deduce it.
Its core logic is not complicated: use "Ti Gua" to represent yourself or the subject you want to ask, use "Yong Gua" to represent the outside world or changing factors, and then combine the five elements relationship between the two (such as wood to generate fire, fire to suppress metal) to judge the trend. For example, if you ask whether something can be accomplished, if the body hexagram is used to "sustain help", it will often go more smoothly; if it is "restrained", you may need to pay more attention.
In addition to calculating good and bad luck, it is often used to make small daily decisions: such as which way to go out and which style to choose when shopping. The ancients believed that this method can be more in line with the laws of nature.
In the final analysis, it is more like a set of "tools for observing the world" - it does not rely on cumbersome regulations, but encourages people to find connections from the details around them, embodying the wisdom of the ancients that "all things are connected". Even if you don't understand the profound Yi Xue theory, you can still feel it from its ideas: the laws in life are often hidden in the details that can be seen at hand.
