Chapter 14: Nautical Taboos (above)

Since ancient times, the art of the gold-mining police officer are the first of the group of sutras “I Ching” for this, so I see that the sea scattered dozens of pieces of green jade, in the picture drawn by Professor Chen, but can be synthesized into a complete jade sculpture, the siren look like a jade man is “candle divining turtles”, and from the style of the candles of the eight gates to see, as if it is deduced from the Eight Trigrams of the Heavens The trigrams, the innate eight trigrams is likely to Pang refute profound, subtle square sixteen words heavenly trigrams for the purpose, which makes me how can not be alarmed?

I hastened to set my mind, and Professor Chen back to the fisherman’s house, turned out that box of green head, want to distinguish the jade turtle back exactly which moment of the trigrams, but found that the most important place carved with the trigrams, most of them are wrapped up by the rotting immersion, the top of the remains of sea creatures deposited on the fine, only by the corners of the part of the fuzzy graphic, can not distinguish, can not help but be greatly disappointed.

Professor Chen saw me staring at the jade carving half a day can not come back to God, then gently patted my shoulder and said: “from the decorations and craftsmanship, this jade man is probably the Western Zhou Dynasty sacrifices God Divination witch with the things, but in mainland China never appeared in a similar form of cultural relics, is likely to be the Zhou Dynasty into the country of the sea bottom of the remains of the hatred of the sky, this is a priceless treasure ah, from where to get it? How is it? Can you tell something from the trigrams?” Although he was an old scholar, he majored in ancient Western culture, not an expert in Yijing.

I shook my head, this jade carving is our accidental collection of “green head”, intended to transport back to Beijing, looking for someone to dish out the living color, sell a big price, but never thought that it would hide such a big secret, if it is really as “break off the martial arts”, tsunami, there are swallowed the boat sea beasts! Dead on the shore, this jade carving is buried in the belly of the beast from the fishing boat, so it will be difficult to determine the ins and outs of it.

But Prof. Chen and I know very well, in the Yin, Shang, Western Zhou, and even the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the ruling class on most of the things of the decision, are through the results of the witch divination, they will be the results of the divination, as well as after the verification of the matter, are recorded in detail to the tortoise shell keel, from a certain point of view, the tortoise shell and the tripods and bells are almost the same important things, the so-called knowledge of the pattern on the jade carving, the decorative patterns can prove its age, because the same is also the case of the jade carving. The so-called “knowledge lines” and “ornaments” on jade carvings can prove their age, because the same oracle bones and inscriptions have their own differences according to the different times, from the form, the Xia Dynasty used bird traces of seal script, while the Shang Dynasty mostly used insect and fish traces, and in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the insect and fish Big Seal scripts were used, although the Chinese characters were unified in later times, there were still differences in the various dynasties, the Big and Small Seal Scripts were used in the Qin Dynasty, the Little Seal Scripts and Official Scripts in the Han Dynasty, Official Scripts were used in the Three Kingdoms, the Regular Scripts were used from the two Jin Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, the Regular Scripts and Official Scripts plus yin signs in the Tang Dynasty. The many indications of the date when this jade carving was produced can be shown.

The inscriptions of bells and tripods and the dragon bones of the heavenly book all recorded the secret stories of the great events of that time. It was the time when the Zhou Yi was prevalent in performing the trigrams, and if we could solve the trigrams of the Siren Illuminated Candle, we could understand many secrets that had been lost for a long time, and the Hateful Heavenly Clan was almost equivalent to the Atlantean Empire of the Orient, how many secrets and treasures must there be? There is even the possibility of getting a glimpse of the mysteries of the sixteen characters of the heavenly trigrams, but unfortunately this jade man in the sea sunk thousands of years, with our current conditions on the island, it is still difficult to peel off the surface layer of the sea erosion of the rot, so for the time being, we can not know the truth of this tortoise divination in the trigrams.

Professor Chen had heard Shirley Yang said about my recent almost every day read “Yi”, I encouraged me, said back to Beijing, if you can disk repair ancient jade, and so after the recovery of the trigrams but also asked me to come back to the examination and research.

I thought this is originally I received the green head, how to listen to the meaning of this, back to Beijing, I have nothing to do? Professor Chen really did not meet with me outside, directly confiscated, this is nothing, but I learn Yi Li is not what out of love for the national science, to the motivation is impure, when Zhang Winchuan “Li involving Dachuan” that a hexagram of the number of God, really convinced me, if I can also distinguish the number of machines, in the future, no matter whether it is a fight or do business, are not all If I can also recognize the number of chances, in the future, no matter it’s for fighting or doing business, won’t it be a victory? In addition, the most important thing is to improve the degree of knowledge of the sixteen characters of yin and yang feng shui secret art, but in front of Professor Chen can not say so, listening to him ask about my insights into the theory of Yi, then casually told Professor Chen about my recent experience of learning Yi, of course, most of them are from the Zhang Winchuan place to listen to.

Previously, I only understand feng shui do not know yin and yang, in fact, the word is feng shui of the total secret, feng shui way to pursue the unity of man and heaven, in fact, is to say that the yin and yang are both opposites and unity, which is what the Yi said in the push of the Tao of Heaven in order to brighten the personnel, the Tao of Heaven and the Tao of Man is an integral whole, the life of the world should be emulated in heaven, emulate the earth.

Following the example of the sky, can be robust and energetic, Tian Xing Jian, gentleman self-improvement; following the example of the earth, will become generous, tolerant and loving, always humble and smooth, the earth is Kun, gentleman with virtue.

I talked with Professor Chen some theories in the I Ching, and then we talked more deeply, with our experience a while ago, in a sense, the sixteen hexagrams of the innate with the essence of the ghost cave, the Dragon Bone Book of Heaven, the phoenix gallbladder has an irrational relationship between, since this jade man is likely to be the country of the Hateful Sky of the antiquity, inside the hexagrams there is no possibility that it will be related to the eye of the sea? Will the ruins of the Kingdom of Hateful Heaven in the sea be swept away by the eye of the sea? Of course these are all my subjective guesses, if I don’t see it with my own eyes, probably no one can say it clearly.

Professor Chen once again instructed: “this time out to sea to look for the Qin King’s Bone Mirror, find the best of course, can not find and do not risk approaching the coral spiral in the eye of the sea, the ancient records, the eye of the sea, the return of the ruins are also sucked in, don’t want to come out, who does not know that year, Hateful Heavenly People encountered what devastating disaster, once you have a three often two short! ……”

I persuaded him: “this matter you can rest assured, we this time is a salvage mission, in order to find the national treasure in the shipwreck, in addition to the incidental egg picking to make some money, and is not to take the route of self-destruction of the death squad, too risky things will never do.” A long talk, I do not realize that the day is almost dawn, according to the original plan, in the morning we have to sail, so I simply do not sleep, the fat man and other people are greeted up, ready to go.

This day is the auspicious day to go to sea, in the morning first to sacrifice the god of the sea, not only our trident ship, the rest of the fishing boat also put the sea operation, the people in the repeated preparations and waiting for many days, and finally about to set sail into the sea, all shaking spirit, can not help the excitement in their hearts.

Experienced egg people Ruan Hei, before going to sea to give us a lot of requirements into the local customs, fishermen and egg people have a lot of taboos, not less than the craftsmen of the inverted bucket, and the customs are extremely unique, the most taboo to say over, buckle, pour a word, who dared to mention these words at sea, the captain has the right to throw who into the sea to feed the fish, if driving a sailing ship, ” Sail” touched the “flip” of the bad luck, so fishermen and egg people are called sailboats pontoon boat, has always been called “sail” for “pontoon”, “sail” for “pontoon”, “sail” for “pontoon”, “sail” for “pontoon”, “sail” for “pontoon”. “Raise the sail” is commonly known as “hold up the canopy” or “open the canopy”.