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Viet Drum Law of Changes (VDC) or Drum Law or Viet’s Book of Change is a system, consisting of the diagrams, symbols, models, numbers, laws, rules, methods, their relationships and meanings. VDC expresses creatively, accurately, clearly, consistently & fully, both by symbols & the laws the theory “Am Duong Ngu Hanh (ADNH)” or “Yin Yang Five Interactions”, one of the most comprehensive, scientific, wise, spiritual & ancient philosophies of mankind.

Viet Drum Law of Change

Fig. 1: Ngoc Lu Bronze Drum

Unlike the Bible, Vedas or I Ching that expressed primarily in words, Viet Drum Law of Changes is the Wordless & unspoken Sutra, perhaps the only one in human history in terms of its comprehensive scope.

VDC is characterized by 3 most outstanding features: originality, comprehensiveness & coherence.

The Originality of the Drum is the most noticeable feature. The Ngoc Lu bronze drum was discovered in 1893 in Ngoc Lu village, Ly Nhan, Ha Nam province of Vietnam. The drum is the most outstanding, beautiful & quintessential representative of Dong Son culture that existed between 900 BC and 200 AD. As the one of the oldest drums, many researchers agree that the age of drums is about 2500 years 1Source: Wikipedia.

Figure 2: Center of the Drum

Recognized as the National Treasure of Vietnam, the drum is currently kept and displayed at the National Museum of History in Hanoi, Vietnam2Source: Vietnam National Museum of History.

Thus, in terms of chronology, the Drum & VDC encoded on it have existed in parallel with “I Ching”, one of the 5 Chinese classics since at least 2500 years ago but almost no one knows.

With works that are several thousand years old, originality is very rare. Having the original & it is publicly displayed makes it transparent and easy to look up & compare, which is an extremely important feature of the VDC.

Figure 3: The System of Diagrams of Viet Drum Law of Changes

VDC displays its coherence by the consistent & systematic connections & dependencies between the diagrams, laws, methods, their meanings, and the core philosophy & ideas of the “Am Duong Ngu Hanh” or Yin Yang Five Interactions Theory. Coherence is characteristic of a doctrine. When the doctrine’s coherence is expressed in numbers, proportions, shapes, models & laws, the doctrine is a scientific theory, capable of predicting & forecasting. Therefore, “Am Duong Ngu Hanh” Theory is scientific.

Figure 4: Bat Quai Lac Hong & its 64 Hexagrams3To help the readers see the fundamental order & structure of the 64 hexagrams, certain hexagrams are not listed

VDC’s comprehensiveness is shown by the fact that the Drum has full set of the diagrams covering all 3 interactions or parts of Heaven, Earth & Human. Generally speaking, Heaven Treatise 8 Trigrams (BQHT) & Land Directions 8 Trigrams (BQLD) represents Heaven & Earth, while Land Heaven 8 Trigrams or “Bat Quai Lac Hong” (BQLH), a unity of BQLD & BQHT covers Human.

Among all diagrams, BQLH is the most important. Without BQLH, VDC will not be complete. Without BQLH, VDC will lose at least 60% of its value.

BQLH contains the methods & techniques of the internal science to explore, experiment, understand, overcome & master the inner world, to experience the beyond or spirituality, to merge into the Dao & bring Dao into the daily life, to follow the life style of the joyful action & to achieve the Ideal of Great harmony, often referred to as the Bipolar Unity i.e. harmonizing, balancing and uniting Yin Yang or “Am Duong”.

In addition, based on the BQLH, 64 hexagrams had been generated to provide a living manual to help people handle daily practical issues. By practicing it repeatedly, people will also get another benefit i.e. to learn & understand VDC’s wisdom & insights.

In short, in the Drum, VDC & “Am Duong Ngu Hanh” theory, all 3 aspects of Science, Philosophy or Way of Life, and Daoism or Spiritual Science blend together as One.

Viet Drum Law of Changes & I Ching

Figure 5: VDC & I Ching

VDC is both similar to & different from the I Ching. If left alone, VDC’s Hong Thu & Land Directions 8 Trigrams (BQLD) are similar to I Ching’s Ha Do & Early Heaven Eight Trigrams (TTBQ). However, when we incorporate one or more other elements, for example Am Duong, Yin Yang of the Trigrams or the Trigrams’ number, there is no longer any exactly the same diagram.

Not only are the diagrams different, but the quantity of diagrams, laws & methods of the VDC are also different, namely Land Heaven 8 Trigrams, 6 hexagrams of the BQHT, the Law of 3 in 1, the Yin Yang or Symmetry law, the Five Interactions or S-Motion Law, the Yin Yang classification method, the way of the expression etc.

Decoding the Drum

When decoding the Drum, we need to bear in mind the following points.

Figure 6: Images on “Ngoc Lu” Bronze Drum

Drum is a work of art. For a work of art, the visible is just the tip of what is expressed, evoking something deeper hidden between images.

Drum is also the encoded law of changes. Ha Do, 8 trigrams, 64 hexagrams were known for hundreds or thousands of years before Drum’s creation, as early as 900 BCE. Therefore, on a circular surface of just 79.3 cm in diameter, it would not be a must to depict all of what had been widely known.

Moreover, it cannot be called encoding when Drum presented clearly & easily any single diagram if it is an important & not yet known.

Even though Wordless, Viet Drum Law of Changes is so wide & profound. It is infinite. The more we understand, the more we’ll realize how little we know. “Hontrongviet.net” hopes that the new findings will contribute to our collective effort to find and decode other mysteries of the VDC and its foundation, the “Am Duong Ngu Hanh” or “Yin Yang Five Interactions” theory.

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