. Chess and playing cards. there will remain less than eight sticks. This re-mainder indicates the complement of the destined diagram accordingto the arrangement shown in fig. 200. The trigram indicated is then recorded by means of the sangi, thefaces of the three nearest the fortune-teller being turned to correspondwith the broken or unbroken lines of the trigram. The zeichaku arethen again manipulated and the three remaining sangi turned in thesame manner to agree with the trigram designated by the count. Theindication obtained from these two operations is then referred to thecorresponding d
. Chess and playing cards. there will remain less than eight sticks. This re-mainder indicates the complement of the destined diagram accordingto the arrangement shown in fig. 200. The trigram indicated is then recorded by means of the sangi, thefaces of the three nearest the fortune-teller being turned to correspondwith the broken or unbroken lines of the trigram. The zeichaku arethen again manipulated and the three remaining sangi turned in thesame manner to agree with the trigram designated by the count. Theindication obtained from these two operations is then referred to thecorresponding diagram in the Yilc King or Divination Classic, andthe fortune teller draws his conclusions from the text which explainsit, aided by traditional interpretations. In this system of divination we have an illustration of the use ofarrow-derived splints divided at random to determine the number,place being ascertained by counting around a diagram, the Pat Jcivd,symbolic of the World Quarters. It is also practised at the present. Fig. 203. CALCULATING BLOCKS (sangi) FOB YEKI. Length, 4| Cat. No. 175G55, day in Korea and in China, having doubtless been derived both inJapan and Korea from China. It is described minutely in one of theappendices to the Divination Classic. l According to the Chineserecord, the stalks of a plant, the Ptarmica Siberica were used, thosewhich grew on the grave of Confucius being most highly esteemed. The assumption that the zeichaku (Chinese, shai chuk)2 were originally anows is based upon analogy, the arrow derivation of many similar objects employed in divination being clearly apparent. The sangi I hinese, siin mule), or calculating sticks maybe regarded as sur- 1 Appendix III, (Imp. it. p. 51. M. (- de Harlez (Les Figures Symboliques du Yi-King, Journal Asiatique, New i \. j). 280) has given a translation of an explanation of the method of divination by means of the splints affixed to the Manchu-Chinese edition of the Yik King of the
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