Handbook of Prognostication and Prediction in Chinese Civilization
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Main Themes
- Sources of Chinese Prognostication
- Techniques of Chinese Prognostication
- Prognostication in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
- Yijing and Prognostication
- Religions and Prognostication
- Medicine and Prognostication
- Thought and Prognostication
- The Living Traditions of Prognostication
- Politics and Prognostication
- Literature and Prognostication
- 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.
- 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.
- Prognostication in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
- Yijing and Prognostication
- Religions and Prognostication
- Medicine and Prognostication
- Thought and Prognostication
- The Living Traditions of Prognostication
- 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.
- Literature and Prognostication
- Divination and dramas
- Divination and novels/fiction
- Divination and poetry