Handbook of Prognostication and Prediction in Chinese Civilization

Suche




Main Themes


  1. Sources of Chinese Prognostication
  2. Techniques of Chinese Prognostication
  3. Prognostication in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
  4. Yijing and Prognostication
  5. Religions and Prognostication
  6. Medicine and Prognostication
  7. Thought and Prognostication
  8. The Living Traditions of Prognostication
  9. Politics and Prognostication
  10. Literature and Prognostication

  1. Sources of Chinese Prognostication [Sources and techniques will be treated together in the same volume.]
    • Apocrypha and prognostication texts (chenwei 讖緯)
    • Corpus on spirit writing
    • Astrological and wuxing zhi 五行志treatises in dynastic histories
    • Childrens’ songs (tongyao 童謠)
    • Corpus on Fengshui
    • Corpus on horoscopy
    • Sections on divination in encyclopedias
    • Encyclopedias on dream interpretation, dissection of characters etc.
    • Almanacs (tongshu 通書)
    • Etc.
  2. Techniques of Chinese Prognostication
    • Astrology
    • Anthroposcopy, such as physiognomy, palmistry, bone structure reading (mogu 摸骨), etc.
    • Aeromancy, such as fengjiao 風角, wangqi 望氣, etc.
    • Geomancy, such as kanyu 堪輿, fengshui 風水, luopan 羅盤
    • Divination based on birth dates, such as bazi 八字, ziwei doushu 紫微斗數, the Classic of One Palm (Yizhang jing 一掌經), etc.
    • Methods related to the Book of Changes (e.g. Meihua yishu 梅花易數 etc.)
    • Drawing lots (chouqian 抽籤) and dice (touzi 骰子)
    • Automatic writing (or “Planchette”) (fuji 扶乩)
    • Literomancy, such as cezi 測字, etc.
    • Oneiromancy
    • Other methods such as domino divination (yapai shenshu 牙牌神數), coin divination (jinqian gua 金錢卦), etc.
    • “The three models” (sanshi 三式): taiyi 太乙, liuren 六壬, and qimen dunjia 奇門遁甲
    • Etc.
  3. Prognostication in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
  4. Yijing and Prognostication
  5. Religions and Prognostication
  6. Medicine and Prognostication
  7. Thought and Prognostication
  8. The Living Traditions of Prognostication
  9. Politics and Prognostication
    • Divination and internal politics
    • Divination and the military
    • Divination and diplomacy
    • Society and almanacs
    • Governmental divination institutes
    • Disasters and omens
    • Divination and the selection of heirs and harems
    • Political prophecies, such as apocrypha (chenwei 讖緯), childrens’ songs (tongyao 童謠), etc.
    • Etc.
  10. Literature and Prognostication
    • Divination and dramas
    • Divination and novels/fiction
    • Divination and poetry