Compass Research: An introduction to the thirty-six levels of the Feng Shui compass!
Introduction: I believe many people have come into contact with the compass. We all know that the compass was developed based on the compass, one of the four great inventions of my country. The compass is complex and most people basically do not understand what is on the compass. Next, I will introduce to you the meaning of the thirty-six layers of the Feng Shui compass! In order to facilitate everyone's reading and reference, Mr. Shui Mo has carefully sorted out many articles and topics related to the compass. Friends who want to know more can take a look.Compass Research: Introduction to the 36 Layers of Feng Shui CompassThe key to using a compass is to read the needle. If you want to know the direction of a certain cave or a house, place the compass on the stone tablet of the cave, or in the middle of the door of the house, or in the patio of the yard, and pad it with three inches of rice, press the rice into a horizontal plane, and place the compass on the rice. Clear away metal objects around and clean the celestial disk with clean water. Throw the pointer two or three times to see if it points to the same direction relative to the meridian. Just like Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis, the Feng Shui master summarized the shaking of the needle into "Eight Wonders": One is fear; it is floating and unstable, and does not return to the center line. This indicates that there are ancient artifacts underground. Two Dui means protruding, and the needle is horizontal, not returning to the north and south, which means there is metal underground. The third deception is fraud; the needle turns unsteadily. Probe four times, strike and throw, half sinking and half floating. The fifth one is missing, which means there are bronze artifacts underground. Liu Sui means disharmony, the needle floats and moves randomly. Seven sides, not jade, leaning to the east or weaving to the west. Eight straight lines, collect the center line. The first seven wonders are all unlucky. Only the eighth is auspicious. If a Feng Shui master wants to determine the direction of water, he will use the red line (some use white line) in the middle of the compass (tray) to indicate the intersection of the water outlet, and then rotate the circular compass to make the magnetic needle parallel to the bottom of the Tianchi Sea. Then he will see what word the red line points to on the circular disk, and he can infer the good or bad luck of the direction based on Feng Shui theory. If the direction is not right, I need to adjust the compass until it is right. This method is used for Gelongsha, acupuncture points and house construction.Introduction to the 36th level of Feng Shui CompassThe first layer is Tianchi, which is Tai Chi, or Wei Heaven and Earth. The magnetic needle is in the center, with the red head pointing to the south and the black head pointing to the north. Feng Shui masters believe that: Tai Chi creates all things, one is Tai Chi; two is two principles (yin and yang, Qian and Kun); three is three treasures (heaven; earth, man); four is four images (east, south, west, north); five is five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, earth); six is six Jias (jia zi, jia xu, jia shen, jia wu, jia chen, jia yin); seven politics (sun, moon, five stars); eight is eight trigrams (qian, kun, gen, xun, zhen, kan, dui, li); nine is nine stars (wen, po, lian; lu, ju, wu, bi, tan, fu); ten is the number nine plus one in the Luoshu. The Feng Shui master also believes that establishing rules, weighing the importance of things, and forming squares and circles all begin with the golden needle and the Tianchi. If the compass does not have the Tianchi, then the north and south directions will be uncertain, yin and yang will be indistinguishable, the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces will be indistinguishable, and there will be no way to determine the dragon's direction and qi. When the golden needle moves, it is yang; when it is still, it is yin. Zi and Wu are divided into two images, the two images combined with Mao and You are four images, the four images combined with the four dimensions are eight trigrams, and the eight trigrams determine the directions. Thus, the way of heaven is completed, the way of earth is flat, and the way of man is established.The second layer is gossip. It may be the innate Bagua or the acquired Bagua. There are four yin and four yang in the Eight Trigrams, each with its own direction. The directions of the innate Bagua and the acquired Bagua are different. The Postnatal Eight Trigrams are also combined with the Luoshu, and its content is very complex. When looking at the geomancy, a Kan dragon should not be placed in the Chen direction, a Kun dragon should not be placed in the Mao direction, a Zhen dragon should not be placed in the Shen direction, a Xun dragon should not be placed in the You direction, a Gan dragon should not be placed in the Wu direction, a Dui dragon should not be placed in the Si direction, a Gen dragon should not be placed in the Yin direction, and a Li dragon should not be placed in the Hai direction. The third level has nine stars. In ancient times, there were different opinions about the Nine Stars. Some believed they were the four directions and five stars, while others believed they were the Big Dipper and two auxiliary stars. The nine stars in Feng Shui are Tan, Ju, Lu, Wen, Lian, Wu, Po, Fu and Bi (dead or warm), which are coordinated with the twenty-four directions and the five elements to form Gen Bing Tan Lang wood, Xun Xin Ju Men earth, Gan Jia Lu Cun earth, Kun Yi Fu Zhou wood, Kan Chen Shen Gui Po Jun gold, Dui Ding Si Bing Wu Wu Qu gold, Li Ren Yin Xu Wen Qu water, Zhen Geng Hai Wei Lian Zhen fire. The fourth layer of stars. There are 24 celestial stars in total, including Tianhuang, Tianwei, Tiangui, Tianyi, Shaowei, Tianhan, Tianguan, Tianzhan, Tiandi, Nanji, Tianma, Taiwei, Tianping, Taiyi, Taigang, Tianguan, Tianming, Tianyuan, Tianbang, Tianshi, Tianchu, Tianhan, Tianlei and Tianfu. The Heavenly Ghost may be the Tiankui, the Heavenly Garden may be the Yangji, the Heavenly Han may be the Yinguang. Tianyi is Tianyi, Tianji is the North Star, Tianhan is the Milky Way, Tianbang and Tianhan are from "Records of the Grand Historian: Book of Celestial Officials". Feng Shui masters believe that the signs in the sky indicate good or bad luck. They take shape in the sky, on the ground, and are reflected in the twenty-four mountains below. Stars can be good or bad, so there can be good or bad luck. Among all the stars, Ziwei, Shaowei, Tianshi and Taiwei are the four noble celestial stars. Except Shaopo, the other three all have the evidence of establishing a map and building a capital. Whenever the stars shine down on the underground cave, it will be auspicious if gold, wood, water, fire and earth are in harmony; otherwise, it will be inauspicious. The fifth level of the earth has twenty-four positions. This is the inner disk, also known as the main needle. The twenty-four directions are composed of eight heavenly stems, twelve earthly branches, and Qian, Kun, and Xun. Why did we choose the number twenty-four? Feng Shui masters believe that this is the number of heaven and earth. The number of heaven is twenty-five minus one, and the number of earth is thirty minus six, both are twenty-four. This number corresponds to the twenty-four solar terms in the sky and the twenty-four mountain directions on the earth. The arrangement of the twenty-four directions is: due north Kan hexagram Wang Zigui, northeast Min hexagram Chou Gen Yin, due east Zhen hexagram Jia Mao Yi, southeast Xun hexagram Chen Xun Si, due south Li hexagram Bing Wu Le, southwest Kun hexagram Wei Kun Shen, due west Dui hexagram Geng You Xin, northwest Qian hexagram Xu Gan Hai. The purpose of the twenty-four positions is to determine the direction of mountains and water. When the intraday index points to a certain solar term, the vitality will be present on the corresponding side. The direction pointed by the needle is the magnetic meridian. It reflects the position of the earth, so it is also called the ground. The sixth level is the twenty-four solar terms. The twenty-four solar terms begin with Gen in the beginning of spring and end with Chou in the great cold, which are used to deduce the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and to observe Shaoyin, Shaoyang, Taiyin and Taiyang. The seventh level is 72 mountain penetrations. Sixty Jiazi plus eight Gan and four Wei make a total of seventy-two, which are called Chuanshan, corresponding to the seventy-two solar terms. The seventy-two dragons are distributed under the twenty-four positions, with three dragons under each position and six Jias under the twelve branches. To penetrate the mountain is to penetrate the dragon. Only after figuring out which stem and branch the dragon belongs to can we tell good from bad. The so-called Ren Mountain can only be located in the Guihai and Jiazi directions; the Zi Mountain can only be located in the Bingzi and Gengzi directions. The eight stems and four dimensions are in the empty spaces. If the indexes are in these spaces, it will be bad luck. The eighth level is gold division. Under the twenty-four mountains of the main needle, there are five positions for each mountain, totaling one hundred and twenty, which are used to avoid the lonely and empty tortoise shells, and are called dividing gold. The ninth layer has twenty-four people in the middle plate, also known as the middle needle plate. The Feng Shui master believes that heaven and earth came first, and then humans, so the human plate is located in the middle of the heaven and earth plates, and Zi and Wu are aligned between Ren Zi and Bing Wu in the inner plate. It is half a grid to the right of the twenty-four mountain directions and belongs to the North Pole meridian. Feng Shui masters call it the upper limit of the celestial stars, which determines the advance and retreat of fortune, and the lower limit of the mountains and rivers, which determines the fate of the land veins. The tenth floor is the same as the eighth floor, but there is a slight offset between them. The eleventh floor is the sixty dragons that penetrate the ground. Feng Shui masters believe that: it is like blowing dust through a tube, and air comes out from the orifices. The five elements flow across the earth, giving rise to all things. When the land has auspicious energy, the soil will rise accordingly. Qi penetrates the earth. If the Qi is strong, the earth will become high; if the Qi is weak, the earth will become flat; if the Qi is clear, the earth will become transparent and beautiful; if the Qi is turbid, the earth will become dark. Then came evil. When fiddling with the dial, there are different interpretations of the sixty dragons. If Jiazi is revealed and hits the mountain, the girl will be mute and the boy will suffer from tuberculosis; if Bingzi is revealed, the boy will be rich and noble, etc. The twelfth level of mantra. Combined with the sixty dragons that penetrate the earth, it is used to interpret good and bad luck, such as "Jia Zi, Qi, Ren and San Hai, for a small mistake. Jia Zi clashes with the mountain, causing yellow swelling, madness, mute women and tuberculosis men. If there is mud in the coffin in the upper water, there will be verbal disputes and legal disputes in the years of Si, You and Chou." Thirteenth level, twelfth time. Ancient philosophers divided the celestial sphere into twelve parts to observe the movement of the sun, moon, and five planets, as well as the solar terms. The twelve times are roughly determined according to the constellations, and their names are Shouxing, Dahuo, Ximu, Xingji, Xuanxiao, {Nüqu} Zi, Jianglou, Daliang, Shichen, Queshou and Que, the fourteenth layer of the twelve divisions. Ancient philosophers coordinated celestial phenomena with certain places on the ground, which is the concept of division of the sky. Feng Shui master believes that if you are good at guessing directions, you can get good luck. The fifteenth layer of outer disk stitches. The outer plate Pan Ziwu is between the inner plate (correct needle) Zi Gui and Wu Ding, so it is called sewing needle. Some Feng Shui masters advocate the use of sewing needles, believing that sewing needles are more accurate than regular needles, and can eliminate incoming water and determine the direction of prosperity and decline. The needle points to the shadow of the table at noon. Since the north-south direction it measures is the light and shadow of the sun, it is also called Tianpan 1. The sixteenth floor is slightly offset from the eighth floor. The seventeenth floor is slightly offset from the eleventh floor. The eighteenth level of the five elements. The nineteenth level of the Zhoutian Sudu. Ancient philosophers used the twenty-eight constellations as the basis for measuring the sky. The twenty-eight constellations are Jiao, Kang, Shi, Fang, Wei, Ji; Dou, Niu, Nu, Xu, Wei, Shi, Bi; Kui, Lou, Wei, Ang, Bi, Zi, Shen; Jing, Gui, Liu, Xing, Zhang, Yi, Zhen. They are distributed on the compass at a certain degree, with a total circumference of 365 degrees. In addition, there is a very complex thirty-six-layer compass, which is briefly introduced below. The first layer is the innate Bagua text, and the acquired Bagua directions, with the innate as the body and the acquired as the function. The acquired nature cannot destroy the innate nature. Use the acquired and not the innate, but the innate is within it. The second level of Luoshu changes into four images, transforms into the acquired nature, becomes nine purples, and divides into six Jia and one hundred and twenty parts of gold. The third level is the Eight Evils Yellow Spring. There are evil spirits such as Kan dragon, Kun dragon, Gan horse, Dui snake, Gen tiger, Li pig, Xun chicken and Zhen monkey, which are taboos in Huangquan. According to the Eight Evils and Yellow Springs, there are many taboos, such as "In the year, month, day and hour of Guihai, enter the central palace and hang Bingyin, the eight whites are very good, and you cannot bury in Genshan" and so on. Another example is "Kan dragons avoid the Chen direction, Zhen dragons avoid the Shen direction, Li dragons avoid the Hai direction, Dui dragons avoid the Si direction, Gen dragons avoid the Yin direction, Xun dragons avoid the You direction, Kun dragons avoid the Mao direction, Gan dragons avoid the Wu direction. This is the so-called "Official Ghost Yao of the Eight Seals of the Pre-Heaven and the Five Elements". The fourth level has eight paths and four paths to Huangquan. This evil star is not good when facing upwards. It is recommended to set the direction according to water. If Kun water comes, then set the direction of Kun or Shen to collect it, which is auspicious. If you set the direction of Geng, it will be inauspicious. The nine stars in the fifth layer correspond to the four-circle system. It is believed that the colors of earth are black, yellow, red, white, green and yellow, all of which correspond to the nine stars. Red, yellow, shiny, moist and fine soil are the best; dry, withered, black, stubborn and hard soil are inauspicious. The sixth level of the territory is the needle. The seventh level is the Yin Yang Dragon. Draw twenty-four black and white circles to represent the Yin and Yang dragons. Feng Shui masters believe that the black circle of Yin is solid and dark, while the white circle of Yang is hollow and bright. Since Yin and Yang are divided, their uses are different. Yin dragon: Hai, Chou, Gen, Mao, Xun, Si, Bing, Ding, Wei, Geng, You, Xin; Yang dragon: Wang Zi, Yin, Jia, Yi, Zhen, Wu, Kun, Shen, Xu, Gan. Decide according to the situation, yin and yang will not kill. The yang dragon moves in the yang direction, and the yin dragon moves in the yin direction. It will be auspicious if they are combined. The eighth layer is the Five Elements that surround the earth. Its source comes from the River Map and is divided into twenty-four mountains in the east, west, south, and north, and gold, wood, water, fire, and earth that restrain each other. The ninth level of robbery is used. The sitting mountain is the most important. A broken, evil, crooked mountain should be avoided, but a beautiful one is not a problem. The tenth level has seventy-two dragons that penetrate the mountains. The eleventh level, Chuanshan, is the main hexagram, which is in line with Zhouyi as the heavenly system. The needle plate on the twelfth layer. The thirteenth level has sixty dragons penetrating the earth. The fourteenth level is a strange door that penetrates the earth. The fifteenth layer penetrates the earth and seals in sixty dragons. The sixty dragons on the sixteenth level are paired with auspicious sands. The seventeenth level determines the four auspicious signs, five relatives, three wonders, eight gates and nine stars. The eighteenth level of the Sewing Needle Sky Plate distinguishes the coming and going of water. The nineteenth level secretly teaches the 240 points of regular acupuncture. According to the Luoshu, there are sixteen fifteen numbers vertically and horizontally, and the twenty-four mountains total two hundred and forty points, which are gold. Ten points for each mountain. The twentieth layer of land is divided into gold, and the inner plate is 28 plus or minus. The twenty-first layer of the celestial plate is divided into three and seven parts, adding and subtracting. The Feng Shui master said: Each mountain is divided into five types of gold. For example, the Gan mountain has Jiazi, Bingzi, Gengzi, and Renzi. Jia and Yi are lonely, Ren and Gui are empty, Bing and Ding are prosperous, and Geng and Xin are phases, so as to avoid mistakes in laying out the lines. The twenty-second level determines errors and voids. The twenty-third level of division of gold is matched with the earth element and returns to the cang, and the division of gold is the outer hexagram. The twenty-fourth level is the Five Elements of Na Yin. The twenty-fifth level is the division of the twelve zodiac signs. The twenty-sixth layer of the universe is divided into two parts by the twenty-eight stars, with a certain star located in a certain province, state, city, prefecture, or county, as if it were hanging in this palace. The twenty-seventh layer is about the monthly solar terms when the sun meets the palace, and people welcome the sun to the mountains to avoid danger. The twenty-eighth level has twelve generals of the Ming Dynasty. Welcome the sun to the palace, half a moon to a mountain, one moon to a palace, and go retrograde for twenty-four mountains. The twelve gods on the twenty-ninth level welcome the sun and entangle the stars. The 30th floor is where the Sun God guards all civil and military officials. Every month, the Sun passes through one palace, which brings good luck and hides all evil spirits. The twenty-four stars in the thirty-first layer are divided into three auspicious, six beautiful and nine stars according to the Yingyuan layout. The thirty-second level of the Hun Tian star measures the five elements. The thirty-third level is where the twenty-four directions of the mountain are filled with stars and sixty dragons penetrate the ground. One dragon is worth one word. One character governs six days, and six sixes govern three hundred and sixty-five days. The thirty-fourth layer combines the longitude and latitude of the twenty-eight constellations in the human disk. The thirty-fifth layer determines the errors and voids, with red circles and black dots dividing the golden lines, which are the inside and outside of piercing the mountains and the earth. The golden dividing line is pressed on the red circle, and the one without the golden dividing line falls within the black dot. The thirty-sixth layer has twenty-eight constellations and twenty-four mountains. All of the above is really tedious and repetitive, and it is hard to get to the point. Feng Shui masters believe that if one masters the compass, one can go up to the sky and down to the earth, covering everything, down to the finest details. If one can understand the yin and yang and distinguish between good and bad luck, then fortune and misfortune will not befall upon one, and ghosts and gods will not be able to escape one's control. The person who compiled the thirty-six-layer compass was Wang Daoxiang, a Yin-Yang scholar at Sihetang in Taiyuan during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. He claimed to have read a wide range of books, traveled across mountains and rivers, visited famous teachers, and interviewed grave owners. He made painstaking research and wrote "A Complete Explanation of the Compass". In order to trick people into believing his ideas, he also claimed that he could not bear to keep them secret and harm future generations, so he spread them among the people. Because the content of the compass is very complex, it involves Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Eight Trigrams, Five Elements, River Map, Luoshu, Na Jia, stars, Twenty-Eight Mansions, mountains, rivers, directions, etc. This stuff is obscure and difficult to understand. However, we must also see that the compass reflects the wisdom of Feng Shui masters. They organically link the relationship between heaven, earth and man together, and reflect the relationship between the magnetic pole meridian, the azimuth meridian and the north pole meridian more accurately on the disk. They coordinate different relationships such as qi, reason, number and shape, and explain various relationships in a systematic way. Summary: The above is an introduction to the thirty-six layers in the Feng Shui compass. The internal structure of the compass consists of three major components: the seabed, inner plate, and outer plate. Friends who are interested can learn about it! |
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