新蔡葛陵楚卜筮简中的繇辞解析

Analysis on the line statements on the Chu bamboo slips manuscript excavated at Geling tomb in Xincai County

新蔡葛陵楚卜筮简中记录了战国时期楚人占筮时的卦画和繇辞,本文尝试利用卦象对繇辞进行解析,结果表明繇辞与卦象大体相符。这种解卦法,也见于《左传》和《国语》,可见战国楚地楚人的筮占是用《周易》,与春秋筮法有一脉相承的关系。竹简繇辞不见今本《周易》,当是民间的另一种传本。

The bamboo slips concerning divination excavated at Geling Village, Xincai County, Henan Province recorded the hexagram lines and the line statements. This paper attempts to analyze the line statements by images, through which we find that the line statements tally with the images. This approach can also be found in Zuo＇s Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals and Guo yu （Remarks of Monarchs）, from which we can learn that people in then the Chu area in the Warring States period adopted the divination methods by the Zhouyi, which are in alignment to the divination methods used in the Spring and Autumn period. Since the line statements in the bamboo slips manuscript can not be found in the received version of the Zhouyi, they should derive from another kind of version being transmitted at that time.