Body and use in Plum Blossom divination (体用（梅花易数）) in the classical texts
What the classics say
Verbatim passages retrieved from public-domain editions of the source texts. They are shown in the original Chinese; the gloss above is ours.
又曰：独发静可用，时日吉凶须审用卦，又教人重于用卦也。穴临日下之进神，当臻吉庆?看已形之既往，察过去之未来?事与世应互同，可见卦中体用；Sources: 殆知阁 (Daizhige) corpus, Chinese Wikisource and transcribed editions; see the manifest for each book's provenance. Classical readings are cultural references, not predictions. Methods and review