What are the five Taoist arts?
1. Overview: Shan, medicine, fortune, fortune, and divination.
The "Five Arts of Taoism" is the most important classification of the huge and complex system of metaphysics (called Fang Shu before Qin and Han dynasties, also known as witchcraft, the same as in the West). It is generally believed to include Shan (Taoism), medicine, Five categories: fortune, fortune, and divination.
It is a science that aims at the self-transcendence of the ancestors. The natural way and magic complement each other, using magic to protect the body, and using mystical skills to form mountains, medicine, fortune, fortune telling, and divination. It is a unique technology that studies man, heaven and the universe with theoretical guidance.
The five arts go hand in hand with the metaphysics of Yin and Yang, Bagua, and the Five Elements. Fate, divination, medicine, and fortune-telling are often used to help people and achieve three thousand meritorious deeds.
2. Description
1. Mountain
The so-called "mountain" refers to the Taoist cultivation method. It is a kind of knowledge that cultivates the "body" and "spirit" through taking bait, elixirs, mysteries, boxing, spells and other methods to achieve transcendence of the body and mind.
Using the energy of nature, celestial bodies and the universe to change one's own destiny is what Taoists often call seizing the world and transforming it.
2. Medicine
The so-called "medicine" is a method that uses prescriptions, acupuncture, massage, spiritual healing and other methods to maintain health and treat diseases. This medical practice includes all ethnic medicines.
3. Fate
The so-called "fate" is a kind of knowledge that understands life through reasoning about fate, analyzes the influence of the natural sun and moon in the universe on the human body, and then improves human life. .
There are three main methods used to predict fortunes: "Ziwei Dou Shu", "Zi Ping Tuishu", "Xing Ping Hui Hai" (Qi Zheng Si Yu), etc. The method is based on the time of birth and the theory of yin and yang and the five behaviors.
In short, "fate" is the knowledge of predicting people's destiny, and then achieving good luck and avoiding bad luck, thereby improving the needs of human development.
4. Appearance
The so-called "appearance" is the method of observing its shape and knowing its meaning. Generally speaking, they are divided into three categories: one is the phase of heaven (celestial phase), the second is phase of earth (feng shui), and the third is phase of people. A method of observing the forms existing in the phenomenal world.
5. Divination
The so-called "divination" includes divination and divination. Its purpose is to predict and deal with things. The types of divination can be divided into "easy divination" and "divination". "Three forms of divination" (Qimen, Taiyi, Liuren, because special equation plates are often used in divination.)