Thread by @edwardW2, 1/n. a thread containing Chinese astrological/divinatory works available online. 中文星占書集。 1.欽定協紀辨方書 Qinding [...]

1/n. a thread containing Chinese astrological/divinatory works available online. 中文星占書集。

1.欽定協紀辨方書 Qinding Xiejibian Fangshu' 'Imperially ordained compendium on harmonizing times and the times and distinguishing the directions'. a massive compendium of "electional astrology" https://archive.org/details/06056502.cn This is vol 1 of 36, all 36 here https://archive.org/search.php?query=%E6%AC%BD%E5%AE%9A%E5%8D%94%E7%B4%80%E8%BE%A8%E6%96%B9%E6%9B%B8&sort=titleSorter

1b. to gauge how influential the work is, chinese almanac makers to this day still use the work to determine how auspicious a given date is. here is an old woodblock ed. which is unfortunately incomplete: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VmFEAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%E5%8D%94%E7%B4%80%E8%BE%A8%E6%96%B9%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwzOmJ4rXlAhVLeMAKHSv9D-gQ6AEIKzAA#v=thumbnail&q&f=false

欽定協紀辨方書

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VmFEAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%E5%8D%94%E7%B4%80%E8%BE%A8%E6%96%B9%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwzOmJ4rXlAhVLeMAKHSv9D-gQ6AEIKzAA#v=thumbnail&q&f=false

1c. Here is yet another version, this time from wikisource https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E6%AC%BD%E5%AE%9A%E5%8D%94%E7%B4%80%E8%BE%A8%E6%96%B9%E6%9B%B8_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)

1d. the book has been partially translated into English, as the The Imperial Guide to Feng Shui & Chinese Astrology https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imperial-Guide-Feng-Chinese-Astrology/dp/184293175X.

1e. The above-mentioned english translation is the onky book I have so far encountered explains the 神煞, Shensha, in a easy and logical manner; these shensha are the astrological/numerological configurations that are the bread-and-butter of chinese date selection.

1f. unfortunately the apparatus of tables that use the shensha are absent from the english translation. the tables makes electional astrology a breeze: just look up two factors, and you will find the suitability of every concievable activity on that day.

2. Ho Peng Yoke's "Chinese Mathemathical astrology" (written in english) is amongst the best works on the subject in English today. It deals with serious chinese astrology with a clarity that has yet to be surpassed. https://archive.org/details/HoPengYoke/page/n3

道光九年通書： https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1s5RAAAAcAAJ&dq=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&f=false An almanac for the 9th year of daoguang (=1829). The format is almost identical to almanacs published in Hong kong today

道光九年通書

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1s5RAAAAcAAJ&dq=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&f=false

4. 繼成堂【淸同治三年甲子曆書】 "Hall of continiung accomplishment's Almanac for the 3rd year of tongzhi [1864], wood rat " https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGwtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%E6%9B%86%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWj6fV5rXlAhXhQEEAHWxpD8sQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%E6%9B%86%E6%9B%B8&f=false Format almost identical to modern taiwanese almanacs (see 4b). even more amazingly, book with same name is still published in China

淸同治三年甲子曆書

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGwtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%E6%9B%86%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWj6fV5rXlAhXhQEEAHWxpD8sQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%E6%9B%86%E6%9B%B8&f=false

4b. For reference, https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1184961071037202433 Unfortunately, the Modern successor to the "Hall of continiung accomplishment" (Xucheng tang)'s almanac does not resemble its predecessor at all...

https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1184961071037202433

5. 月建切總通書大全 "yuejian Qiezhong Tongshu Daquan" A smaller electional handbook. nowhere near as comprehsnsve as the Imperially ordianed compendium, but more portable, and in the right hands, can still get the job done. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5TdWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP40&dq=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPkJrm5bXlAhVHRxUIHSBRBrIQ6AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&f=false

月建切總通書大全

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5TdWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP40&dq=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPkJrm5bXlAhVHRxUIHSBRBrIQ6AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=%E9%80%9A%E6%9B%B8&f=false

6. 許真君玉匣記 "Xu zhenjun Yü xia ji" 'Immortal Xu's record of the Jade box". A short work, described as a Taoist 'liturgical calendar', which (amongst other things) describes how auspicious a given day is for petitioning a given god
https://zh.wikisource.org/zh/%E8%A8%B1%E7%9C%9F%E5%90%9B%E7%8E%89%E5%8C%A3%E8%A8%98

6b. This short text has more recently been expanded into book-length compendia of selecting auspicious dates more generally, along with dream-interpretation, horoscopy and some elements of fengshui.

7. @astroherb's books;
1. https://twitter.com/astroherb/status/875651264951926785 The 3rd book on this list 星學大成 'the grand compendium of astral science' is presently being studied by @JeffreyKotyk
2. https://twitter.com/astroherb/status/875651497702211590
3. https://twitter.com/astroherb/status/875650953810067457

https://twitter.com/astroherb/status/875651264951926785

8. Here are two Manchu translations of the 玉匣記 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90030007.r=%E7%8E%89%E5%8C%A3%E8%A8%98?rk=21459;2 and https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9003033m.r=%E7%8E%89%E5%8C%A3%E8%A8%98?rk=42918;4

9. Uranographie chinoise/星辰考原 by Gustav Schlegel , two volumes as one. This French work seems to be the leading reference on Chinese constellations; pity the celestial maps are not properly folded up in the digitalization https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hRoiAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Uranographie+chinoise&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAtuXlmcnlAhW_QRUIHYqvCeAQ6AEINjAB#v=onepage&q=Uranographie%20chinoise&f=false

Uranographie chinoise

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hRoiAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Uranographie+chinoise&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAtuXlmcnlAhW_QRUIHYqvCeAQ6AEINjAB#v=onepage&q=Uranographie%20chinoise&f=false

10.新參後續百中經 “A new compendium of calendarics" A remarkable book; it contains divinatory tables, some of which are still found in contemporary Chinese almanacs. Also contains calendars and planetary ephemerides fr 1768-1840, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=829PAAAAcAAJ&dq=%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%AD%E7%B6%93&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%AD%E7%B6%93&f=false

新參後續百中經

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=829PAAAAcAAJ&dq=%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%AD%E7%B6%93&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%AD%E7%B6%93&f=false

11/ 袖裏百中經-- "A pocket compendium of calendarics" https://archive.org/details/xiulijinbaizhong00unse. Sadly incomplete (missing pages 2-5, & stops at 26), a lithographed divinatory compendum. I recall reprints of a similar edition were sold on Taobao as 關煞百中經"complete comedium of gates and sha"

12/ 新參後續百中經(Nb. 參 is written with a variant on the cover,similar to 叅). A 1920s edition of No, 10 in the list. Contains calendars 1836-1979. https://archive.org/details/xincanhouxubaizh00huan

12b. Of particular interest is the front page. It shows a form of simple natal horoscopy, unusually presented. The 4 male figures are the 'emperors' ruling each of the seasons. Select the relevant emperor for the season where you are born...

12c... and then find where the hour of your birth (in black circles) is located on his body. The meaning is explained in short paragraphs. Eg; if the hour is on the emperor's head, then the native will have no worries through life etc.

12d this diagram is still published in traditional Chinese almanacs, eg this 2018 ed of 永经堂

13. 御定奇門真詮 'The imperially ordained true commentary on Qimen Dunjia" https://archive.org/details/dogang_430. Qimen dunjia is a form of Chinese numerological astrology. Fiendlishly complex, it maintains a significant following in the Chinese world today.For more see https://archive.org/details/HoPengYoke/page/n109

13b. The method produces a 'plate' or 'chart', depending on a particular time. This chart can be used to determine auspicious directions, ideal activities. This book gives the thousand-odd possible charts, with commentary on them.

14. 祕傳水龍經“ the secretly transmitted Classic of the Water Dragon" A work of Fengshui. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EoUqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E7%A7%98%E5%82%B3%E6%B0%B4%E9%BE%8D%E7%B6%93&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=%E7%A7%98%E5%82%B3%E6%B0%B4%E9%BE%8D%E7%B6%93&f=false
Has been translated in Michael Paton's Five Classics of Fengshui https://brill.com/view/title/23837 The book is pricey, but for the serious, worth every penny.

Five Classics of Fengshui

"Five Classics of Fengshui" published on 17 Jun 2013 by Brill.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EoUqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E7%A7%98%E5%82%B3%E6%B0%B4%E9%BE%8D%E7%B6%93&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=%E7%A7%98%E5%82%B3%E6%B0%B4%E9%BE%8D%E7%B6%93&f=false

15. The 皇帝宅經 " The yellow Emperor's classic of sitting" https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=908557 and https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&file=98889&page=4 NB. the link here has only the text & lacks the diagrams in the original. Also transl, in Michael Paton's Five Classics of Fengshui

15b. The translation of the title is an error; it ought to be "The yellow Emperor's classic of Dwellings"

16. Not strictly astrology, but regarding astral deities 太上玄靈北斗本命延生真經 (The most high and numinous True scripture of the original Fate and Extending life by the Stars of the Norther Dipper).
https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B8%8A%E7%8E%84%E9%9D%88%E5%8C%97%E6%96%97%E6%9C%AC%E5%91%BD%E5%BB%B6%E7%94%9F%E7%9C%9F%E7%B6%93

16b This scripture, sacred to the Gods of the Seven stars of the Northern dipper, is often recited at temples; the author witnessed one such recitation in Singapore.

16c. About 1/2way through the scripture, you will see the rather exiraordinary series of characters 魁𩲃𩵄䰢魓𩳐魒. These are the mystical names of the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper... (img below shows the characters in yellow https://www.plurk.com/p/mxc67r )

16d. When the scrpture was being recited, the priests fell silent when they came to this line. A large gong was solemnly struck instead of each word. These characters apparently cannot be said aloud, but pinyin transcriptions of them do exist.

17.陰陽合璧新萬年曆: A Newly compiled Myriad-year-calendar for the Yin and Yang Calendars https://archive.org/details/yinyanghebixinwa008800
A Chinese-Gregorian calendar conversion from 1920-1970.

One of the most fascinating, yet infuriating works of Chinese religion: "Researches into Chinese superstitions. Henri Dore S.J. , tr. by M. Kennelly"
1. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch01doruoft/page/n3 (includes 小兒關煞)
2. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch02doruoft/page/n3 (an extensive collection of amulets)

18b/ (this is a loooong work, 14 vols. bear with me)
3. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch03doruoft/page/n3 (More amulets/ 符籙, this time with attempts to decipher them)
4. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch04dore (Extensive discussion into astrology, methods of divination, date selection, festivals etc)

18c/
5. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch05doruoft/page/n5 (Magical rituals, magical creatures)
6. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch06doruoft (Gods incl. Guanyin, Guanyu, )
7. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch07dor (Buddhist gods, Dizang地藏, 10 kings of hell, jigong)
8. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch08dor (More buddhist worthies etc)

18d/
9. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch09dor (Daoist gods: incl. Jade Emperor, 8 immortals,)
10. https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch10dor (God of thunder, Taisui, Five marchmounts 五岳）
[Volumes 11 and 12 do not appear to hve been digitalized]
13 https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch13doruoft/page/n3 (Confucians)

The final volume, vol. 14 also does not appear to have been digitalized, but here it is, in its original french: https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch14doruoft

18f. The sheer bulk of the above book makes it an exceptionally valuable source of material on Chinese beliefs and customs; The author recalls reading some recently published books that appear to draw on the decipherment of Fu-Talismans/ Writs 符籙 above...

18g. As to why it is infuriating, let 1 eg suffice: it concerns a (now extinct) form of divination that involved rolling a ball around a tub with 12 compartments. The author comments "How then can anyone trust the predictions of these cunning knaves?" https://archive.org/details/researchesintoch04dor/page/346

18f. The authors do not let a single opportunity to criticise the custom go by. This is Reasonable, considering it was written by a Missionary.Alas! why must it be that the most extensive collection of Chinese folk customs in the west, was written with an intent to destroy them!

19.The Transnational Travels of Geomancy [i.e.fengshui] in Premodern East Asia,
Part 1: https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/journal/Volume-2/Issue-1/transnational-geomancy-1
Part 2: https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/journal/Volume-2/Issue-1/transnational-geomancy-2

20/ 聖壽萬年厯
卷首~卷一 https://archive.org/details/06054858.cn/page/n2
卷二~卷三 https://archive.org/details/06054859.cn
卷四~卷五 https://archive.org/details/06054860.cn

21/ Feuchtwang's Celebrated "An anthropological analysis of Chinese Geomancy" https://b-ok.cc/book/1188316/c789d4

Guo lao xing zong ming ge da quan. v.8.

Guo lao xing zong ming ge da quan. v.8.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015088726362&view=1up&seq=3

22b. The above book, Guolao Xingzong = Guolao's Astral Compendium, is one of the leading works of Chinese horoscopic astrology-- as in the sense of using planets. This chart, for example, shows what in the west would be called the domiciles of the planets.

22c.But the astrology diverges from the west in other ways as well. This chart shows the "Delights“ Xi 喜" and "joys" Le 樂 of the planets. The Palace of 辰=libra is show as the "joy" of the sun: quite the opposite from western astrology! https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015088726362&view=1up&seq=48

22d. This book has never been translated into English, which is a bit of a shame, considering the astrology contained within is extremely fascinating and complex.

22e. To show how complex-- and differnt the astrology here differs from any other sort, here is a chart from the last part of the book, Mr. Zheng's Astral cases 鄭氏星案. Note how there are 7 layers of data attached to each sign of the chart!

22f. The complexity arises in part, because in addition to calculating the planetary positions, the astrologer is supposed to calculate various imaginary 'stars' or 'gods' that attach themselves to the various zodiac signs, depending on the year of birth.

22g. In addition, there is a rather intricate system of "transformed luminaries" 化曜, where the "role" each planet plays in the birthchart, depends on the year the person was born in addition to all the other factors.

22h. The above comes from the little I have read (so far) about this system. if anyone can provide more info or correct any errors, I will be most grateful.

23/ Helmer Aslaksen's magisterial "the mathematics of the Chinese calendar" possibly the only english-language work to treat the subject at length; IIRC even cited by the 'supplement to the astronomical almanac' http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.139.9311&rep=rep1&type=pdf

23b/ This may also be of interest: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250375165_Fake_Leap_Months_in_the_Chinese_Calendar_From_the_Jesuits_to_2033 "Fake" leap months in the Chinese calendar.

(PDF) Fake Leap Months in the Chinese Calendar: From the Jesuits to 2033

PDF | In 1645 the Jesuits carried out a reform of the Chinese calendar. The key change was to use the "true sun" rather than the "mean sun". One... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250375165_Fake_Leap_Months_in_the_Chinese_Calendar_From_the_Jesuits_to_2033

23c/ Helmer Aslaken's webpage, alas only available as an archive copy now , is a veritable mine of information on calendars. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311203628/www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/#web Here is the section on chinese calendars https://web.archive.org/web/20180228205506/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.shtml

24/ Kusyar Ibn Labban's introduction to astrology, arabic -english parallel text, with its Ming-Dynasty Chinese translation in the back (明譯天文書).
https://cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/pdf/Yano_Kushyar.pdf. Special thanks to @schrift_sprache for pointing this out!

25/ An introduction to the 諸葛神數, an oracle using Chinese characters. This text is a fixture in most Hong Kong almanacs to this day. https://www.biroco.com/yijing/Moore_Shenshu.pdf

25b/ In the above text, Mr. Moore expresses his puzzlement about the word oracle being compared to the Maqian ke 馬前課, which he understands to be a prophetic text & not a divination method....

25c/ However, I have seen a divination method called 小六壬 referred to as 馬前課, - figuratively "on the go prophesies", owing to its immense simplicity: you can literally perform the divination by counting on your fingertips http://www.yangyide.net/mingli/6582.html

26/ In any case, Mr. Moore has also translated the Maqian ke (the prophethic text) in its entirety. the book is a fascinating read: https://www.biroco.com/yijing/Maqian_ke.pdf

27/ Finally, this website has an extremely interesting overview of Najia 納甲 system of using the yijing
https://www.biroco.com/yijing/najia.htm

28a/ 小兒關煞圖解 "Xiaoer Guansha tujie" = "A pictorial explication of Young Children's Gates and Sha"
A modern reprint of a book dating from 1889 (光緒十五年),
https://archive.org/details/guanshatujie_images/page/n2/mode/2up

28b/ The above deals with a rather obscure, but interesting subject: Paediatric astrology, so to speak. By looking at a child's horoscope, you can detect certain problems the they would face, often rather graphically illustrated.

28c/ The consequences can range from the mild (Child cries incessantly) to the catastrophic, eg the img below 將軍箭. For children unfortunate enough to possess this configuration, "[They]will meet Yama (the King Of hell) when is 12" unless they take steps to solve it

28d/ Resolving the ailments is simple enough, most involving a talisman that is (presumably) placed with the child. But some involve more elaborate rituals. eg, for the affliction ft above, you are supposed to get a bow & 3 arrows and break them at a crossroads to lift the curse.

29/ The Esoteric Text of Nine Illuminators 九曜秘历 https://archive.org/details/esoterictextofnineilluminators/mode/2up

30a / https://www.shengxiao5.cn/animal/list_38_1.htm This is a more or less complete transcription of the Jade Box, or 玉匣記, Yu Xia Ji in its modern form

30b/ as mentioned above, ( https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1187485334969421825) the "Jade Box" originally referred to a simple religious calendar; It has since comprehensive treatiese on all aspects of Chinese mantic arts; This expanded version subject of the link in 30a.

https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1187485334969421825

30c. As of date, the methods of divination found in the text little studied in the west, despite being ubiquitous in China. Similar—but not identical texts—are reproduced in the pages of countless almanacs, and as many little handbooks of divination.

30d. Here are some of its contents:
Ausp. days to trade : https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/23/15103.html
Omen-divination using the cries of birds https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/23/15175.html
Predictions on climate, and harvests using weather on New Year's day https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/23/15150.html

30e/ The only flaw with the text is that it fails to reproduce many of the illustrations; eg the section on amulets https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/23/15178.htm only reproduces the spell for consecrating 'em, & not the amulets themselves (for some of them see https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1237311314399199234)

30f/ Here is the whole book, in the weblink https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/27/15180.html and in an archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20200313233714/https://www.shengxiao5.cn/shengxiao/27/15180.html

31/ 萬法歸宗: "The Myriad methods follow the Rule" An extensive collection of Chinese amulets 符 and theurgic practices
1 https://archive.org/details/02094471.cn/mode/2up…
2 https://archive.org/details/02094472.cn/mode/2up…
3 https://archive.org/details/02094473.cn/mode/2up…
4 https://archive.org/details/02094474.cn/mode/2up

32/ 新刊指南臺司袁天罡先生五星三命大全
1. https://archive.org/details/02094346.cn/mode/2up
2. https://archive.org/details/02094347.cn/mode/2up
An elaborate compendium of natal astrology.

33/ https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000940/00006/allvolumes?太乙數統宗大全, 33-40卷.

Part of what appears to be a very massive collection of works on the Divinatory method of Taiyi 太乙. Illustrations printed in colour.

34/ BSB Cod.sin. 531, a manuscript handbook of astrology etc 手稿算命書 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0011/bsb00118420/images/index.html?id=00118420&groesser=&fip=eayaxdsydeayaxseayasdaswxdsydsdaseaya&no=3&seite=3

35/ 選擇天鏡 :三卷. A treatiese on electional astrology 擇日; some of the tables would be familliar to readers of Taiwanese almanacs today https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990080512280203941 alas the Harvard digital book viewer is hardly user-friendly...

36/ 趙普撰;羅通遁法;池紀解編.箋元遁甲句解煙波釣叟歌
A treatiese on Qimen Dunjia, a fiendlishly complex method of divination that is still practiced in China today. It contains one of the chief primary sources, the Yanbo Fisherman's song 煙波釣叟歌 https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990077550980203941

37. 安居金鏡
https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990080445230203941

38/ 巒頭指迷 https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990077437850203941

39/ 術數辨謬 https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990081409620203941

35/ The link seems to be broken, here is another https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1252936856108322817

https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990080512280203941

https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1252936856108322817

40/ It seems all the harvard links i sent above are now broken :(

41/ 新刻元龟會解斷易神書/ "The Newly Engraved compendium of explications on the Prime Tortoise; the divine book for Judging the Yi." A rather interesting 'popularization' of the Book of Changes Yijing/I ching 易經

https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=AUspAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E6%96%B7%E6%98%93&pg=PP4#v=onepage&q&f=false

41b/ This book relates the somewhat abstract pronoucements of the Yijing to more concrete realities. The entry for each hexagram is spread over 2 pages; the first page is general interpretaions (plus a small picture that somehow represents a judgment for the gua)...

41c/ the second page gives judgments, both attaching to the lines of the hexagram, as well as the hexagram in general.

41d/ Eg: the third line of Qian (wilhem) reads
"All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares." The book interp. this in more concrete terms "Official matters: Auspicious. Illness: Death. [...] Traveller: Arrives" (purple)

41e/ It also gives more general interpretations when you draw up a hexagram. Some egs for Qian:
Travel (blue): Unsuitable to travel alone [...]
Finding people (red): Found in the Southeast, or will be met on the way
Field and Silkworms (green): Half the ordinary yeild.

41f/ Note: the hexagrams in this bk are not arranged in the usual order, but in the "8 palaces" arrangement.

A similar book, the 斷易天機 Duanyi Tianji = "The Heavenly Mechanism to judge the Yi" is still published in China today.

42: 玉髓眞經 Yusui Zhenjing: A Treatise on Fengshui; http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/db-machine/toho/html/C029menu.html
Editions of this work are still published in China.

43/ 紫微斗數全書： “The complete book of Ziwei Doushu" Detailing one of the more elaborate forms of natal astrology still practiced China today https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/das/meta/F1000000000000101426.html

44/ 陽宅真訣: True Formulae for the Yang House: Another treatiese on Fengshui; this time for dwellings https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/das/meta/F1000000000000101396.html

45 卜居秘髓 : Buju Misui = "The seceret Marrow of judging houses": Yet another work on fengshui for houses https://www.loc.gov/item/2012402537/

46/ 地理大成 Dili Dacheng "the Grand compendium of Earthly Knowledge"
A MASSIVE (18 volumes !!!) compendium of Fengshui https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/das/meta/F1000000000000101404.html You can see excerpts from here https://new.shuge.org/view/di_li_da_cheng/#prev

46b/ @shugeorg is a website that directs you to PDFs of old Chinese books on all subjects. Their twitter feed (which directed me to the last 4 books!) is well worth a follow.

47./ 地理知本金鎻秘 https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=DE8pAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E9%99%BD%E5%AE%85%E6%8C%87%E6%8E%8C&pg=PP588#v=onepage&q&f=false

地理知本金鎻秘

https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=DE8pAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E9%99%BD%E5%AE%85%E6%8C%87%E6%8E%8C&pg=PP588#v=onepage&q&f=false

48/ 王式傳通書便覽兼註解= 集福堂 https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-002566123/reader Wang Shichuan's almanac for 1948. Cover pic showing sun & moon gods. Almanac is almost identical in format to ones pub'd in taiwan today https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1184961071037202433 An almanac with this name is still pub'd on the mainland

49/ 增廣玉匣記= The Expanded Jade Box Record. https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-9910006988/reader
A COMPLETE VERSION of the "Jade Box Record, with all the figures and tables [See https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1238065090672369672 for an incomplete text version]

49b. This is one of the major compendiums of 'folk' divinatory techniques. It covers subjects as talismans to cure illness, diverse as weather prediction, dream interpretation, and most importantly, selecting auspicious dates

49c. This edition closely corresponds to ones that are still printed in Taiwan today. You can compare the section on medical talismans with images of the Taiwanese edn I featured earlier ( https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1237311314399199234 and https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1235192728436252672 ）

https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1237311314399199234

中華民國三十五年歲次丙戊國歷通書: "National Almanac for the 35th year of the Republic (Fire Dog) = 1946
Another almanac, this time a more 'stripped down' version https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-002566168/reader. This reflects a simplifying trend that is upheld in some contemporary almanacs

51/ 太歲超辰表 https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTUL-9910005890/reader This seems to be some kind of chronological table based on the sexagenary cycke, but I must confess i don't understand it. Perhaps some of my learned readers can explain it?

52/ 兩千年中西曆對照表=A Sino-Western calendar for two thousand years
https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTUL-9900013521/reader
Does what it says on the title: Valid from 1 AD-2000 AD

六壬尋原, 上冊： Seeking the Origings of Liuren: https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900014269/reader
The first volume of a treatiese on the chinese divinatory method called liuren, which functions much like horary astrology. I unfortunately cannot find the second volume,

54/ 奇門元靈經 The Numinous classic of Qimen Dunjia: https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007901/reader A treaties on Qimen dunjia, yet another divinatory technique. The questions that can be answered are extremely diverse; eg, the weather, the suitability of travel, liberation from prison etc.

55/ 奇門五總龜 https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007902/reader The Five Tortoises of Qimen Collected: Yet another book on Qimen Dunjia. It tabulates the possible charts generated by the system; which saves a lot of labour. There are tables showing the [in]auspiciousness of every hour of day too.

56 董公選要覽: The Essence of Lord Dong's selection. https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007903/reader A treatiese on selecting auspicious dates, still published in Hong Kong almanacs.

增訂命理探原= Seeking the origin of Fate-calculation: Expanded ed https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-9910006747/reader This is a veeeery comprehensive treaties on the Eight Characters/ Four pillars/ bazi astrology by the celebrated 20thc. diviner Yuan shushan 袁樹珊 (2nd img shows a bazi horoscope)

58/新命理探原= Seeking the origin of Fate-calculation: new version https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-000002203/reader What appears to be another edition of the book above.

The following table (fr the bk) shows the Heavenly stem attached to each of the 12 hours of the day, depending on that day's H.S.

59/ 中國歷代卜人傳: Biographies of Chinese Diviners, Juan 33-38.The diviners' biographies are arranged by the province 省 they came from. This is vol. 6, I cannot find the rest.

60/歷法通志= A compendium of calendarics https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900014895/reader
A book on the various calendars used throughout chinese history. Copious tables

61/ 大宋寶祐四年會天歷 An Astronomical calendar for the 4th yr of Baoyou (=1256) of the Great Song [dynasty]. https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900014896/reader What appears to be a later reproduction of a Song Dynasty almanac.Many of its features are still recognisable, eg the Flying stars & day officers.

62/秘傳萬法歸宗= Returning to the Roots of a Myriad Methods: Secretly transmitted. https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-002351397/reader A massive compendium of amulets 符咒 and other theurgic rituals. Still pub'd in China.

For another ed. see https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1238611080303296512

63/ 近百年國曆快覽 A Quick-reference calendar for nearly a century https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCL-9910010659/reader Chinese-gregorian Calendar for 1912- 2000, or as it is displayed Mingguo 0 to Mingguo . 89. Many modern longterm almanacs still follow its format. This is the calendar for the 2000

64/ 周易集解: Collected Explications of the Book of Changes.
1= https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007893/reader
2= https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007894/reader
3= https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NTL-9900007895/reader
An ed of the I ching/ Yijing, with extensive commentary
[note the number of the tweet ;) ]

65/ http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2017/03/children-evil-gates.html "Children and their Demon gates". An English translation of a Chinese text on "Pediatric astrology", which predicts the various dangers a child can face depending on their horoscope, cf. https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1235243685278818313

65b. Readers should note the text used is extremely similar to ones that are found in Hong Kong Almanacs. Here is a comparison of the entry "Iron Snake Gate" found in the 廣經堂 (Guang Jing Tang) almanac with the one found on his website. https://web.archive.org/web/20200607020509/http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2017/03/children-evil-gates.html

65c, this website is a gold mine for persons interested in 'folk' Daoism more generally. Eg:
- Tr. of Hokkien mantras used to bring mediums to a trance http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-2-most-common-mantras-used-during.html
- The Deity Taisui http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2014/12/origin-of-tai-sui-how-to-pray.html and his role in astro remediation http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-proper-tai-sui-protection-talismans.html

66/ 講武全書兵占： https://new.shuge.org/view/jiang_wu_quan_shu_bing_zhan/ and https://www.loc.gov/item/2012402804/
A compendium of what (I think) are military applications of astrology/astronomy and omens. 1st img is a star map, 2nd img is a Qimen Dunjia Chart.

67/ Bodleian Library MS.Backhouse 13, 推背圖轉天金鎖鐱
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+2,t+,rsrs+0,rsps+100,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+2d063a5f-3f17-4133-b02b-d3a2c5c8348b,vi+d917e573-8b84-4be4-8483-dcb6eb1d72f2 An edn, of the celebrated Tuibei Tu, or Back Pushing picture, a set of cryptic imgs predicting the rise and fall of dynasties, some versions of which are still published in China; 1st 4 pages below:

68/ 崇禎曆書 - The Chongzhen calendar

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+20,t+Sinica%20897%20,rsrs+0,rsps+100,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+a5b8da53-d7df-4a5c-9306-0c857f5b89db,vi+
A HUUUUUGE volume [3000+ pages!] of mathemathical astronomy, showing the calculations of planetary positions, eclipses, lunar mansions &c &c.

69. 大明永曆三十一年歲次丁巳大統曆 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/e10965b3-8895-4379-adef-5db9f4549b6a A sad one if you know your chinese history. This almanac was issued by the Southern Ming, or what was left of the Ming Dynasty before it was wiped out by the Qing. https://serica.blog/2012/01/02/southern-ming-calendars/

70. 翠微山房數學 A huge compendium of math & astronomy
1-5冊 https://books.google.com/books?id=430tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false
<General math>
6-11 https://books.google.com/books?id=AX8tAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cui%20wei%20shan%20fang%20shu%20xue%2C%20Volumes%206-11&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false.
<trig, spherical trig>
12-17 https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=uYMtAAAAYAAJ&dq=%E4%BA%94%E5%85%AC%E7%B6%93&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
<More trigonometry, star charts, eclipse calculations>

71/新集周公解夢書=Pelliot chinois 3908. "The Duke of Zhou's dream interpreter: Newly collated". https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8300230n/f2.image. A book of dream interpretation. Books with similar titles are still published today.

71b. the book classifies dreams based on topic, eg astronomical, earthly, plants, minerals, fire, officials, social activities. Eg:
To dream of ascending to heaven: Birth of Noble Son
Dream of brilliant heaven: Harmony, great joy...

Pelliot Chinois 3838. An astrology bk, but TBH I cannot make head or tail of. It is clearly incomplete, and deals with horoscopic [?] astrology, eg segments saying 第一宮. OTOH this could merely be an annual profectional system. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8300225b/f1.image.r=astrologie

73/ 管公明卜要決經 "Lord Guan's clear method of divination" . A cleromantic oracle, rather distinct from the Yijing Probably incomplete. The 4 imgs below are all that they have . https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100979220/f2.image.r=astrologie

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