Английская Википедия:Fuji (planchette writing)
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Fuji (Шаблон:Zh), also colloquially known as "Chinese Ouija", is a method of "planchette writing", or "spirit writing", that uses a suspended sieve or tray to guide a stick which writes Chinese characters in sand or incense ashes.[1]
Development
Beginning around the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), the fuji method and written characters changed from Шаблон:Lang "support the sieve" (spirit-writing using a suspended sieve or winnowing tray) to Шаблон:Lang "support the planchette" (directing a stick or stylus, typically made from a willow or peach branch, and roughly resembling a dowsing-rod).Шаблон:Citation needed
Vocabulary
Chinese fuji spirit-writing involves some specialized vocabulary. Luan (Шаблон:Lang) "a mythical phoenix-like bird" is used in synonyms such as Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "support the phoenix"), Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang "flying phoenix," and Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "descending phoenix"). The fuji process involves specialized participants. The two people (or rarely one) who hold the sieve or stylus are called Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "planchette hands"), only one of whom is ostensibly possessed by a shen (Шаблон:Lang, "spirit; god") or xian (Шаблон:Lang, "immortal; transcendent"). Their assistants include a pingsha (Шаблон:Lang, "level sand") who smooths out the Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "sand table"), a Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "planchette reader") who interprets the characters, and a Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, "planchette copyist") who records them. Jiwen (Шаблон:Lang, "planchette writing") is a general reference to texts produced through Chinese fuji spirit-writing.Шаблон:Citation needed
Folk history
Spirit-writing has a long history in Chinese folk religion, and is first recorded (Chao 1942:12) during the Liu Song dynasty (420-479 CE). Fuji planchette-writing became popular during the Song dynasty (960-1279), when authors like Shen Kuo and Su Shi associated its origins with summoning Zigu (Шаблон:Lang, "Purple Maiden"), the Spirit of the Latrine. Fuji divination flourished during the Ming dynasty, and the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1522–1566) built a special jitan (Шаблон:Lang, "planchette altar") in the Forbidden City (Despeux 2007:428). Although the practice of fuji planchette-writing was prohibited by the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) Legal Code, it has continued and is currently practiced at Daoist temples in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia as well as folk shrines in Mainland China. Planchette writing is also mentioned in translations of the Golden Flower meditation manual that is used in modern practice in the United States as well.
Uses
Fuji is particularly associated with the Quanzhen School of Daoism. The Daozang "Daoist Canon" contains several scriptures supposedly written through spirit-writing. Two examples are the Zitong dijun huashu (Шаблон:Lang, "Book of Transformations of the Divine Lord of Zitong").Шаблон:Citation needed
See also
- Automatic writing
- Chinese fortune telling
- Chinese spiritual world concepts
- Fenghuang
- I Ching divination
- Jiaobei
- Jailangkung
- Kau chim
- Kokkuri
- Omikuji
- Ouija
- Poe divination
- Thoughtography
- Tongji – medium or oracle in Chinese folk religion
- Tung Shing – Chinese divination guide and almanac
- The Secret of the Golden Flower
References
Further reading
- de Groot, J.J.M. 1910. "Spirit-Writing, and other Oracular Work", in The Religious System of China, 6:1295-1316, E.J. Brill.
- Wilhelm, Richard. 1931. The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Harcourt Brace.
- Jordan, David K. and Daniel L. Overmyer. 1986. The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan. Princeton University Press.
- Russel, Terence C. 1990. "Chen Tuan at Mount Huangbo: A Spirit-writing Cult in Late Ming China", Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 44.1:107-140.
- Kleeman, Terry F. 1994. A God's Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong. State University of New York Press.
- Lang, Graeme and Lars Ragvald. 1998. "Spirit-writing and the Development of Chinese Cults", Sociology of Religion 59.4:309-328.
- Clart, Phillip. 2003. "Moral Mediums: Spirit-Writing and the Cultural Construction of Chinese Spirit-Mediumship", Ethnologies 25.1:153-190.
- Despeux, Catherine. 2007. "Fuji Шаблон:Lang planchette writing; spirit writing," in The Encyclopedia of Taoism, ed. Fabrizio Pregadio, Routledge, 428–429.
External links
- Шаблон:Wikisource-inline
- Planchette writing (Fuji), Taoist Culture & Information Centre
- Spirit-writing and Hakka Migration in Taiwan – A Case Study of the Canzan Tang Шаблон:Lang in Puli Шаблон:Lang, Nantou Шаблон:Lang County, Paul R. Katz
- Ancient Ouija Boards: Fact or Fiction?, Museum of Talking Boards
- Шаблон:In lang Шаблон:Lang, Fuji Altar at Kam Lan Koon Шаблон:Lang, Hong Kong
- Шаблон:In lang Шаблон:Lang, Fuji Altar at Che Sui Khor, Malaysia
- Шаблон:In lang Шаблон:Lang, Fuji at Шаблон:Lang, Taiwan