Yuan Hai Zi Ping
Yuan Hai Zi Ping (simplified Chinese: 渊海子平; traditional Chinese: 淵海子平; pinyin: Yuān Hǎi Zǐ Píng) is the first comprehensive and systematic book on the theory of Four Pillars of Destiny. The book was compiled by Xu Dasheng (徐大升, aka zh:Xu Ziping 徐子平, hence the book's name) of the Song Dynasty of China. It is a recording of various Zi Ping's fortune-telling methods. The method involves manipulation of the Four Pillars, each consisting of the two Chinese characters for the date and time of a person's birth (alternative name "eight characters" 八字 Ba Zi).
The names of the book's chapters are:
- Basics
- Ten Gods
- Symbolic stars
- Six Types of Family Members
- Fortunes of Females
- Fortune-telling Verses
See also
- Qi Men Dun Jia
- Da Liu Ren
- Tai Yi Shen Shu
- Tie Ban Shen Shu
- Feng Shui
- I Ching
- Chinese astrology
- Chinese astronomy
- Chinese Classical Texts
- Monadology - the metaphysical basis for synchronicity provided in 1714 by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, another student of the I Ching.
- Flying Star Feng Shui
References
- "Yuan hai zi ping" by Xu Zi Ping, Xi An: Shan Xi Lu You Chu Ban She, 2007. ISBN 7-5418-1583-7
- "Introduction to Zi Ping" by Jack Sweeney, Wen Bo Chu Ban She, 2009.
External links
- Chinese classic books on fortune telling
- Four Pillars of Destiny
- [www.phoenixanddragonfengshui.com/index.asp] Qi Men Dun Jia website of Jack Sweeney
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