他便帮我算了一卦
“he cast a divination for me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
其实我第一次 带咸坤先生见你之后
“Actually, after I first introduced Master Xiankun to you,”
他便帮我 算了一卦
“he cast a divination for me.”
他说
“He said that as long as I stayed by your side, never leaving you,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Consulting master diviners using the I Ching or Daoist astrology was common in ancient China among nobility to navigate political instability and personal fate.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
divined a hexagram; cast a divination
A traditional Chinese idiom referring to consulting the I Ching or fortune-telling; used when describing receiving a prediction or reading.