候风术在殷商武丁时期的四风求年占卜刻辞中即已出现,候风术后来发展为一种占验术,称之为“风角”。至迟春秋时期四方风演变为八方风,二者皆为季候风。从文献和敦煌汉简记载来看,至少在西汉时期八风已与后天八卦相结合,并且用于候风占验。汉代还有四方与四卦相结合的形式,从甲骨刻辞中的析、因、彝、伏四方名与震、离、兑、坎四方卦名在词义上具有相近含义来看,汉代四方风名与四卦相结合的形式可能有更古老的来源。 In the period of Shang dynasty Wu Buding period, the typhoon was already appeared in the four seasons of divining Buddhism. The typhoon developed into an occupying operation, which is called “wind angle”. As of late spring and autumn, the tetragonal winds evolve into the octagonal winds, both of which are monsoon winds. From the literature and Dunhuang Han jiang records, at least in the Western Han Dynasty eight winds have been combined with the acquired gossip, and for await assessment. In the Han Dynasty, there was also a combination of the four parties and the four trigrams. From the analysis of the inscriptions on the bones of the bones, because the meanings of the divinatory names of the Yi, There may be more ancient sources for the combination of the name and the hexagram.