Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
- Joined
- Apr 12, 1970
- Messages
- 203
- Reaction score
- 11
Hello all,
Just today my fellow LJ user got his "divination sticks" from China. Well, really he wanted his friend to bring just 50 yarrow-stalks, but she got these "Chien Tung". It is a bamboo box with 60 sticks in it. Luckily, I found it in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien_Tung . The divinatiory process is the most simple you can imagine: take one stick at random and read its text. They say it is being used in Chinese Buddhist temples.
But I want to ask about variants: how many sticks can there be? Oh, i.e. how many sticks have you seen in such boxes? He got 60, I saw 78 at some online shop - are there more variants?
Just today my fellow LJ user got his "divination sticks" from China. Well, really he wanted his friend to bring just 50 yarrow-stalks, but she got these "Chien Tung". It is a bamboo box with 60 sticks in it. Luckily, I found it in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien_Tung . The divinatiory process is the most simple you can imagine: take one stick at random and read its text. They say it is being used in Chinese Buddhist temples.
But I want to ask about variants: how many sticks can there be? Oh, i.e. how many sticks have you seen in such boxes? He got 60, I saw 78 at some online shop - are there more variants?