Zhouyi Cantongqi: Engineering Reading of the Hexagram-Fire-Timing Correspondence Table

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Wei Boyang's "Zhouyi Shen Tongqi" of the Eastern Han Dynasty is known as the "ancestor of the Alchemy Classic". The most difficult thing to read is that the whole book uses sixty-four hexagrams, twelve news hexagrams, stems and branches, and twenty-eight constellations to spell out a "fire timetable." Core mechanism: Waidan uses one year as "one season of alchemy", and the growth and decline of yin and yang in the hexagrams corresponds to the prosperity and decline of the fire. Take the twelve message hexagrams (Fu, Lin, Tai, Dazhuang, Zuo, Qian, Qiu, Dun, Bu, Guan, Pei, Kun) and match them with the twelve earthly branches and the twelve hours: the hexagram of Yang Chang is the main "entering fire" (heating), the hexagram of Yin Chang is main "retreating" (cooling), Qiankun is the cauldron, Kanli is water and fire, and the end point of the reaction is the end of the reaction. …

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