Which is better, Huangdi Neijing, Shanhaijing and Zhouyi?

Hello, Dou Shushijia is at your service. These three books actually have different areas of concern.

Huangdi Neijing is the source of Chinese medicine, and books that easily answer medical theories such as Yin-Yang, Five Elements and Meridians are an important foundation of Chinese medicine. It is the earliest existing system theory medical work in China, which was written in the Warring States period.

Shan Hai Jing is a fairy tale. At present, most scholars believe that Shan Hai Jing is an early and valuable geographical work.

Shan Hai Jing is a book that records ancient myths, geography, plants, animals, minerals, products, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folk customs and nationalities in China, and reflects all kinds of cultural phenomena. Besides preserving rich mythological materials, it also involves many academic fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, religion, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, animals, plants, minerals, folklore, ethnology, geology, oceanography, psychology, anthropology and so on. It can be said that Wang Yang is a vast place, just like the sea and the sun. In the case of underdeveloped ancient culture, science and technology and transportation, Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful book with the most myths in China, and it is also an encyclopedia of tourism and geographical knowledge.

In the two major parts, Mountain Classic consists of five chapters, focusing on mountains and rivers in all directions, covering ancient history, vegetation, birds and animals, myths, religion and so on. According to the orientation order of south, west, north, east and middle, each article is divided into several sections, and the previous section and the latter section are connected by related sentences, which makes the relationship between the sections very clear.

Zhouyi is more complicated to explain. Many people think that Zhouyi is a fortune-telling book, but it is not. Zhouyi is a book that explains the relationship between monarch and minister and the laws and principles of everything in the world. Yin and yang, five elements, ups and downs. It is a philosophy book, telling people how to be born, and how gentlemen and villains can coordinate with each other.

The Book of Changes is the theoretical source of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in China's traditional ideology and culture. It is the crystallization of the thoughts and wisdom of the ancient Han nationality and is known as the "source of the road". It is a study of ancient emperors and a compulsory skill for politicians, strategists and businessmen. The Book of Changes is an outstanding representative of Chinese traditional culture. Vast, subtle and all-encompassing, it is also the source of Chinese civilization.

Zhouyi is not only a book of divination, but also a book of self-cultivation through divination. Every hexagram is a fork in the road of practice. People are wrong and the world is wrong. If a person is ill, his career is ruined. Zhouyi is not so much a divination as a record of various diseases of the human body. The existence of Yijing supplements the diseases of Huangdi's Neijing. If the meridians of the human body are not functioning normally, there will be disaster.

Of course, these three books are not without something in common. They are all religious. To a certain extent, they explain and expound the simple materialistic concepts, simple philosophical theories, especially the humanistic care and the traditional culture of China, as well as the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, which are my favorite.