清华简《筮法》偶识

Some Views on the Qinghua Bamboo-strip Shi fa(Method of Divination)

学习研讨清华简《筮法》,获得如下几点认识:首先,《筮法》的背后有一个完整、严密的体系。比如八、五、九、四分别在春、夏、秋、冬遇到时称"得",这是因为四个筮数与五行是对应的,而其相配的数字次序,如果忽略大小本身,其正好与《洪范》五行的次序相合。其次,《筮法》中有"十七命",与此相应,整理者"弁"、"战"的标目是值得商榷的。再次,《筮法》中分析卦象的一些理念,与今传易学中的互体、中四爻为占、应、中等是相似的。

Having studied and discussed the Qinghua bamboo-slip Shi fa （Method of Divination）, my views on it are as follows： 1） There was an integral and rigorous system behind the Shi fa. For example, the numbers of eight （八）, five （五）, nine 九）, and four （ 四 ） represent de 得（gain） in spring, summer, autumn, and winter respectively in that the four numbers obtained in divination correspond to the Five Elements, a correspondence being the same as that described in the chapter of ＂Five Agents＂ （Wu xing 五行） of the Hongfan 洪范（Great Plan）. 2） There is a term called shiqi rning 十七命 （divination related to seventeen aspects [in human life]）, in which the items of bian （弁, coming-of-age ceremony） and zhan战 （war） identified by the team of annotators of the bamboo slips are questionable. 3） Some ideas used to analyze the images of the numerical hexagrams are similar to those ofhuti 互体 （overlapping trigrams）, ying 应 （response）, and zhong 中 （middie or centrality） employed in the received approaches to the Changes.