春秋占筮心理探讨

Divination And Psychology In The Historical Period Of Spring And Autumn

本文主要以《左传》、《国语》中运用《周易》占筮的事例,探讨了春秋时人占筮时的若干心理,即占筮之前的倾向性心理;先卜后筮的舍逆取顺心理;取象和释意的随意性心理;联系事项的附会性心理;用占及评论的劝善性心理。

The present paper, by resorting to the examples of divination by means of milfoil illustrated in Zhouyi（The Book of Change,s） and employed in Zuozhan and Guoyu, discussed the possible psycholog ieal tendencies while practicing divination, namely, the inclination before the divination; the psychology of selecting the favorable and abandoning the adverse after the divination; that of arbitrariness in choos ing the images and in interpretation; that of straining the interpretation by false analogy; that of being persuasive by using divination and interpretation of it.