ENGLISH RECORD 47
Shao Yong's Huangji Jingshi
The work is traceable, but modern event calendars often use later computational schemes.Northern Song dynastyChinaNumerology · historical cycles
01 · WHAT IT IS
Overview
Shao Yong organized cosmic and historical change through numbers, hexagrams and vast periods in Huangji Jingshi.
02 · ORIGINAL TEXT AND EARLIEST SOURCE
What can be traced?
03 · HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The world behind the text
22 · SHAO YONG SPECIAL ARCHIVE
Shao Yong’s cosmos was not a prediction list
邵雍 1011–1077 · courtesy name Yaofu · posthumous name KangjieHuangji Jingshi orders nature and history through numbers and hexagrams. This dossier separates Shao Yong’s work, later commentaries and modern year-by-year prophecy tables as different evidence layers.
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01 · LIFE & NAMES
A Luoyang recluse and Northern Song thinker
Shao Yong chose scholarship and friendship over official office. His biography links his learning in diagrams and numbers to Li Zhicai, and he associated with Sima Guang and the Cheng brothers. He is better understood as a philosopher, poet and historian seeking an ordered account of change than as a compiler of modern event predictions.02 · PRIMARY TEXT
What is inside Huangji Jingshi?
Volume counts differ across editions. Content divisions and the physical volumes of a printing are recorded separately.Orders change through nested units of time.
Places language and sound within numerical order.
Develops principles of observing the world.
Extends the system through sayings and dialogues.
03 · COSMIC CLOCK
Yuan · hui · yun · shi — a nested time model
A common later presentation repeatedly multiplies 30 and 12. It is a model for ordering history, not by itself a fixed calendar of modern events.04 · TRANSMISSION
How one work accumulated several layers
- 1Shao Yong and Huangji JingshiNumbers and images order cosmos, nature and history
- 2Zhang Xingcheng and other commentatorsDiagrams and calculations expanded
- 3Accumulated notes and diagramsEdition families with different arrangements
- 4Gregorian conversion tablesHexagrams mapped to dynasties, wars and years
- 5Cropped charts and headlinesAssumptions disappear from prediction lists
05 · ATTRIBUTION CHECK
Is Meihua Yishu the same evidence?
The received Meihua Yishu circulates under Shao Yong’s name, but no surviving Song edition directly establishes it as a lifetime work. The plum-blossom story appears in later Ming material. Shao’s influence and direct authorship must be catalogued separately.06 · MODERN CLAIM LEDGER
Checking modern ‘Shao Kangjie prophecies’
2024–2043, Fire over Thunder
Read as an age of war, punishment and law.
2044–2063, Mountain over Fire
Read as decline or superficial culture.
A sage and world unity
A peaceful order is said to arrive near a cycle’s end.
Dynasties and world war
Hexagrams are mapped to regimes and global war.
The 129,600-year cycle
Presented as a complete timetable of cosmic decline.
07 · METHOD
SALGIL verification standard
- 1Locate the exact sentence
- 2Record edition, chapter, page and date
- 3Publish epoch and conversion rules
- 4Freeze target, window and criteria beforehand
- 5Count failures and successes together
08 · PROVISIONAL VERDICT
Strong textual tradition; modern dates need separate proof
Shao Yong’s life and the textual tradition of Huangji Jingshi are traceable. Converting its cycles into modern years and events changes with later epochs, editions and interpretive rules. Philosophical importance and predictive accuracy are not one score.09 · SOURCES