长安西仁村陶拍数字卦解读

An interpretation of the figure hexagrams carved on the pottery pat collected at Village Xiren, Changan, Shaanxi Province

长安西仁村西周时期陶拍上的数字卦来源于《周易》类的筮书,其筮数脱胎于阴阳爻画,其6卦 二二相耦,分为3对覆卦,可能是出于覆体为占的需要。

The hexagrams made up of figures carved on the pottery pat (a device to make the outer wall of a earthenware solid) , collected at Village Xiren, Changan, Shaanxi Province, of the Western Zhou Dynasty originated from divinatory books like Zhouyi. The divinatory figures derived from Yin and Yang marks. The 6 hexagrams on it can be divided into 3 pairs of overturned hexagrams, probably to meet the need of divination.