(Qing) Wang Weide and Li Fei “Choosing the Time to Create Fate-Yongning Tongshu” vernacular annotation PDF e-book download

XZFS0931 Wang Weide-Choosing the Time to Create a Destiny: A Comprehensive Book of Yongning.pdf

Introduction

“Yongning Tongshu” is a work with great influence in geography and geology. In fact, it is more appropriate to include this book in the category of “folklore”. It was written by Wang Weide in the Qing Dynasty. The author called himself “Linwushanren” and was the original author of Yi Zhan’s famous book “Divination Authentic”.

“Yongning Tongshu” is divided into upper and lower parts, the upper part is “Tian Ji” three volumes, which mainly discusses some basic knowledge in geography, such as 24 solar terms at four o’clock, five luck and six qi, yin and yang, eight trigrams, The twenty-four mountains, the birth restraint of the celestial stems and the earthly branches, the order of the twenty-eight mansions, the bird names, the purple and white stars in the three yuan and nine fortunes, the eight houses in the year of travel, etc.; Experienced weddings, funerals, weddings, marriages, residences, travels, and some details and precautions for building houses and tombs. It tells a series of red tape from death to burial of a person, such as death, cessation of mourning, filial piety, selection of tomb, making of coffin, encoffining and funeral, burial time, burial ceremony, tomb relocation, etc. as the main content. It can be said that there are many feudal superstitions in the three volumes of “Diji”, but it is understandable from the perspective of folk customs and people’s psychology of seeking good luck and avoiding evil.

Most of the content of this book is presented in table form, which is very convenient for reference. It is a very practical information book, and it is necessary to preserve it. Most of the taboos in the later generations and some of the current farm almanacs come from this book. It can be seen that this book has a great influence among the people.

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