Daliuren

Daliuren
Chinese大六壬
Literal meaningGreat Six Ren
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyindàliùrén
The Da Liu Ren array, with the Three Transmissions on top, the Four Classes, their Heaven and Earth pan positions, the twelve generals, and the Heaven Pan superimposed above the Earth pan. Vacancies are noted in the right margin, along with the Date and the Ju number.
The Da Liu Ren array, with the Three Transmissions on top, the Four Classes, their Heaven and Earth pan positions, the twelve generals, and the Heaven Pan superimposed above the Earth pan. Vacancies are noted in the right margin, along with the Date and the Ju number.
The fixed, unmoving Earth Pan positions of the twelve Earth Branches. The Heaven Pan sprits rotate around the Earth pan.
The fixed, unmoving Earth Pan positions of the twelve Earth Branches. The Heaven Pan sprits rotate around the Earth pan.

Da Liu Ren is a form of Chinese calendrical astrology dating from the later Warring States period.[1] It is also a member of the Three Styles (三式; sānshì; 'three rites') of divination, along with Qi Men Dun Jia (奇門遁甲) and Taiyi (太乙).

Li Yang describes Da Liu Ren as the highest form of divination in China.[2] This divination form is called Da Liu Ren because the heavenly stem rén (壬), indicating "yang water", appears six times in the Sexagenary cycle. In order, it appears in rénshēn (壬申), rénwǔ (壬午), rénchén (壬辰), rényín (壬寅), rénzǐ (壬子), and rénxū (壬戌).

In the words of a contemporary Chinese master of Da Liu Ren,[who?] the six rén indicate an entire movement of the sexagenary cycle, during which an something may appear, rise to maturity and then decline and disappear. Thus the six rén indicate the life cycle of phenomena. There is a homonym in the Chinese language which carries the meaning of pregnancy,[citation needed] and so the six rén also carry the meaning of the birth of a phenomenon.

  1. ^ Kalinowski, Marc (1996). "The Use of the Twenty-eight Xiu as a Day-Count in Early China". Chinese Science. 13: 55–81.
  2. ^ Li, Yang (1998). Book of Changes And Traditional Chinese Medicine. Beijing Science and Technology Press. ISBN 9787530420256.