堪称蜀易奇葩的“卦影术”

The Hexagrams Shadow: A Maverick Localization of the Changes in Shu Guo

易经八卦,本身就是一种符号图象。为了使图象通俗化,蜀中易学家试着将符号变为图画,将图象变为图语,这种传统方术古称"轨革术"。到北宋初期,蜀人费孝先将这种图象传统发挥得淋漓尽致,创造了"卦影术"。卦影术在宋代盛极一时,文献记载其应验之事不可胜数。但随着其术之诀窍渐被人识破,加上占卜多为"事后诸葛亮",对当时卜问者的指导意义比较模糊,因此,卦影术在宋代以后逐渐销声匿迹。卦影术的生灭历程很好地体现了蜀学所具有的创造性,堪称蜀易中的一朵奇葩。

The Eight Diagrams in the Book of Changes are actually graphics. Popularized in the process of development, they were converted into pictures or picture language, called Rail Leather Art. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a professional in Shu Guo（the present Siehuan Province） perfected it into the Hexagrams Shadow. According to recorded literature, it prospered in the Song Dynasty and worked well. However, they were easily seen through or the forecasts were most often wise-after-the events. Thus they gradually went out of sight. Yet its rise and fall was a maveriek.