A Philological Study on Daliurenxinjing(大六壬心鏡) a Liuren Classic

Daliurenxinjing(大六壬心鏡) is the bushi(卜筮) classics of the method of employing the six Sexagenary cyclical members with the Yang Water stem compiled in the Tang age. The classics contributed to the compilation of the classics of the method of employing the six Sexagenary cyclical members with the Yang Water stem of later generations as a lot of books related to the method of employing the six Sexagenary cyclical members with the Yang Water stem including liuxinduanan(六壬斷案) and Daliuinbifafu(大六壬畢法賦) in the Song Dynasty and liuxindaquan(六壬大全) in the Qing Dynasty were compiled after it was done. And it has high value as a historical record because of being included in Great Compendium on Liuren of the Complete Collection of the Four Treasuries. As there are no results that studied this classics in the academic circles, this paper aims to play a role of guide in the in-depth studies of it. For this, the theoretical framework and characteristics of the classics were studied by using Daliurenxinjing(大六 壬心鏡) as the text. The theoretical framework of the classics consists of core being(體) and function(用). It’s because the theory which explains Shipan(式盤) of the method of employing the six Sexagenary cyclical members with the Yang Water stem is applicable to core being and trigrams(卦象) which appear in Sikban are applicable to function. The result which studied the full text has found that people predicted whether daily household matters would be auspicious (吉) or not with the divination method of employing the liurenzhan(六壬占) in the Tang age. As for main affairs(人事), theories related to all kinds of affairs such as building and repairing houses, marriages, pregnancy and childbirth, going out, occupations through government offices, agriculture and fisheries, and commerce, and theories regarding weather for borrowing of wealth, employees (slaves), robberies, property control, diseases which interfere with health, and weather for farming are included in the classics. In addition, theories related to the military (軍事) for national security are recorded in it. Therefore, the classics makes people know that it is the book for helping avoiding bad fortune and taking good fortune (避凶就吉) in the affairs(人事).