"Sexagenary cycle Match to Five Elements As Symbols" in "San Ming Tong Hui"

• Main Authors: Chu-ying Hsieh, 謝菊英
• Other Authors: Jun-wei Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96253940633577811046

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 東方人文思想研究所 === 101 === Numerology is one of the most profound historic significance and widely disseminated in theory of Chinese traditional culture. Chinese numerology with its ingenious multiple application in many ways of ancient culture have been concerned as a indicate of life and respect it as a rule of living especially during the period fromearly Qin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. “San Ming Tong Hui” was published in Ming Dynasty by Wan, Man-Ying. In the first volume“The Good and Bad Luck of the Five Elements and Sexagenary cycle”,he applied the theory from “Li,Xu-Zhong’s numerology ”,which came from Tang Dynasty. By considering of all kind of theory, both theoretical and practical, “San Ming Tong Hui” has become a master piece in numerology with highly recommendation by the leaner of the later years. This thesis is focus on the Ideas of “Sexagenary cycle Match to Five Elements As Symbols”in“San Ming Tong Hui”.The discussion is based on Bazi to forecast ones fortune. By using Sexagenary cycle Match to Five Elements ,so called “Na Yin”,with each five elements match to the ten Heavenly Stems and the twelve Earthly Branches, we can have thirty combinations ,which carried the characters of each Five Elements and indicates the good and bad luck, correspond to one’s stages of lifetime in Sexagenary cycle. Thus, we can tell a man’s fortune to be rich or poor, high or low, just through one’s Bazi, which formed into four pairs of“Na Yin”.That is the importance of the “Na Yin” fortune-telling system that concerned to ones aspect in he or her whole life.