梅花
Mei Hua Yi Shu is traditionally attributed to Shao Yong. What distinguishes it is how freely a hexagram may be cast: from a time, a spoken number, a direction, or something seen or heard, with no equipment required. The resulting hexagram splits into a body trigram and a function trigram, and the reading follows their generating and controlling relation.
Its basic difference from Liu Yao is that it assigns no Najia stems and no Six Relations, working directly from the imagery of the eight trigrams. That makes it very quick to pick up, but it also means interpretation rests more on a feel for the images and less on codified rules.
How to read this branch
The two things that matter are the trigram imagery in the Shuo Gua and the body-and-function relation. The many ways of casting all reduce to the same interpretive step.