Divination and Guidance
How does replaying an online divination response help us understand a problem?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
When a divination response is recorded, you can listen again later if you forget something or want to confirm it. This reduces the burden of relying only on what you remember at the time. You can hear clearly again what was discussed and what advice was given, rather than guessing from memory what the teacher said last time.
In my early online Chinese chess divination work, I would first ask the person to explain the problem and what they wanted to ask. I then made an audio or video recording of my interpretation and gave it to the client. Some friends from central and southern Taiwan had previously taken high-speed rail early in the morning, then changed transportation in Taipei and traveled up the mountain. Making that trip was demanding. The online approach removed those journeys.
So at the time, I saw two conveniences: people did not need to make a special trip, and they could listen to the response repeatedly. By first explaining the question clearly and then keeping the interpretation, they had something to return to whenever they wanted to recall it later.