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Chinese Wind Divination in the Period of Song Renzong Reign.Uppsala, Dept of Archaeology and Ancient History Yaqi Fu Chinese wind divination in the period of Song Renzong Reign (1022-1063 CE) Master’s thesis in Global Environmental History 1 2 Abstract Fu, Yaqi. 2015. Chinese wind divination in the period of Song Renzong Reign.Uppsala, Dept of Archaeology and Ancient History. This thesis examines Chinese wind divination in the period of Song Renzong Reign (1022-1063) from two different paths: one is by interpreting the Wind Orientation Divination method based on my text analysis of Wujing Zongyao武经总要; the other path is by elaborating Wind Sensing Divination method in Qiusheng Fu with its links to Meihua Yishu梅花易数 and I Ching. Through these two paths, I try to build an understanding of Chinese wind divination in Song Renzong Reign. Keywords: Qiusheng Fu, Meihua Yishu, Wujing Zongyao, wind divination, Song Renzong Master’s thesis in Global Environmental History (45 credits), supervisor: Anneli Ekblom, Defended and approved autumn term 2015-12-08 © Fu, Yaqi Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Box 626, 75126 Uppsala, Sweden 3 4 Acknowledgements This thesis initiated by the desire of investigating Chinese wind divination when I was in China, and now, it is almost finished to the end. From thinking to writing, from the first day I landed Sweden till today, the accomplishment of this thesis, there are numerous stories about my growth, a lot of places to remember, and many people to whom I need to express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Uppsala University for giving me a chance to be a student here in Sweden. My thanks to my colleges in Environmental History, without your com- pany and help altogether, I would not be able to go along with my study and finish this thesis. Thanks to my parents, without all your unselfish love and support, I am not able to finish this study in these two years long. Many thanks to my friends in China, in Sweden, and in other plac- es, you, all of you give me support, care, hope, and such kindness encourages me to finish this thesis. I am feeling grateful to and pound of Chinese culture and history, which provides me in- spiration and a sense of mission to write during my thesis writing. Most all all, I am fully thankful to Anneli Ekblom, my supervisor and advisor, for her wisdom, patience, enthusiasm, responsibility, and encouragement which helps me all along the way when I was writing the thesis. She reminded me, made plan for me, and made modifications to my thesis draft. Without her generous and careful supervision, my thesis would remain as an illusory image, a moon in water or else a flower in mirror. 5 6 Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 9 1.1. Divination in academic litterature ................................................................................................... 11 1.2. Aims and Method: ........................................................................................................................... 13 1.3 Chinese characters, citation and appendix........................................................................................ 14 2. The significance of wind divination research: with a short comparison between China and the Occident after Song Dynasty ...................................................................................................................... 17 2.1. Same wind, different interpretations ............................................................................................... 18 2.2. Classical Greek wind mythology .................................................................................................... 18 2.3. Christianity and the Holy wind ....................................................................................................... 19 2.4. Different Trajectory between Western and China in oceangoing voyage ....................................... 20 3. A short history of wind divination in China ........................................................................................... 22 3.1. The developments in the Song dynasty ........................................................................................... 25 3.2. Yi-ology: The learning of I Ching ................................................................................................... 25 3.3. Meihua Yishu 梅花易数 ................................................................................................................. 27 4. Introduction to the Song Renzong period and the analysed sources. ...................................................... 30 5. Wujing Zongyao武经总要 ................................................................................................................. 31 4.1. Ouyang Xiu欧阳修 and his Qiusheng Fu秋声赋 ........................................................................... 31 5. Wujing Zongyao武经总要’s records about wind divination .................................................................. 34 5.1. Waiting for wind: ............................................................................................................................ 34 5.2. The conditions of doing wind orientation divination ...................................................................... 36 5.2.1. Different systems and approaches in wind orientation divination: .............................................. 36 5.3. Wind sensing divination 风觉占 ..................................................................................................... 40 6. Qiusheng Fu秋声赋 and the approach of Wind sensing divination ....................................................... 43 6.1. Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修 may draw hexagram when facing the wind ................................................... 43 6.2. Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修 see a changing hexagram wind-thunder Yi 风雷益 ....................................... 45 6.3. Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修’s cosmology based on autumn’s wind ........................................................... 48 6.3. A personalised representation of Wind sensing divination ............................................................. 50 7. Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................. 52 References ................................................................................................................................................... 56 Appendixes ................................................................................................................................................. 60 Appendix A: Qiushengfu秋声赋 in Chinese .......................................................................................... 61 Appendix B: Qiushengfu translation ...................................................................................................... 62 Appendix C: Arthur Waleyʼs Qiushengfu translation ............................................................................ 63 Appendix D: Herbert A. Giles Qiushengfu translation ......................................................................... 64 Appendix E: Tables ................................................................................................................................ 65 7 8 1. Introduction Humans has a necessity of knowing natural phenomena. The time period over which humans have tried to know natural phenomena is probably much longer than the time period when hu- mans begun to have knowledge about other phenomena. Heaven, earth, wind, and even thunder and lightning, all of the elements were in existence before humanity, and continue to play a role in the world of humans today. The recognition and knowledge of natural phenomena by humans is thus hardly achieved by single individual, but through accumulated knowledge consistent with the inheritance from the past. By knowing natural phenomena, simultaneously, humans make efforts to changing and predicting the natural environment within where they live. The effects, the changes on nature by the human forces are also the result of actions accumulated from gener- ation to generation. In brief, there are two general relations that humans can have with nature, one is to know nature, and the other is to change and to transform it. Knowing nature is I argue also related to the process whereby of about knowing humanity itself. However, in the past several centuries, the development of science in the modern world has sparked a huge technological development and thus increasing human’s ability in changing and transforming nature. These changes have also influenced the recognition of nature as an integral part of culture. The increasing power of humans with technologies rendered a change in the rela- tionships between human and nature. Nature is in some extent seen as human’s servant or slave, used by humans for resources and exploitation to make nature serve human society. In essence, the use of nature and natural resources is deriving from ancient time, but with technology’s help, the process of exploitation now has become faster and extraction greater. Technologies also change the way that we humans think. As nature becomes a slave of humanity, the same way, the human mind is enslaved into technology and mechanisms or what I call the mechanistic view. If we compare the past to the modern world, there is a quite difference in the relation between human and nature. Nature or natural phenomena
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