What are I ching and I ching?

Yijing: It is the abbreviation of Yijing. It refers to extracting the changing law of everything according to the changing process of everything, which is a relative causal cycle in the universe. Yi means that the meaning of "Yi" in the Book of Changes has three meanings: change, simplicity and difficulty. According to Hutuluo, The Book of Changes is divided into ancient times (Fuxi innate gossip), middle ages (Wang Wen's gossip the day after tomorrow) and later generations (Confucius' comments). Mr. Nan explained in Miscellanies of the Book of Changes that the Book of Changes may have existed for more than 2 million years. The Book of Changes is a book that reveals changes. The contents of the ancient book of the Book of Changes are composed of Tai Chi Yin and Yang pictures, eight diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams. The word "Yi" consists of the sun and the moon. The word "Sun" above represents Yang, and the word "Tang" below represents the change of the moon and represents Yin. Together, it means the alternation of yin and yang.

brief introduction

Zhouyi is the earliest divination book in China. With its special system and expression, it laid a solid foundation for the establishment of China's mathematics. In the past, many scholars agreed that Zhouyi was born in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. Because there are two kinds of divination in the late Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, it can be basically determined that Zhouyi was born after King Zhao of Zhou, or in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty at the earliest, but never in the late Shang Dynasty.

The eight-eight-sixty-four hexagrams recorded in Zhouyi were produced on the basis of digital hexagrams and painting hexagrams in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. There are two basic symbols in Yi Gua: "-"and "-",which is the first divination book with divination characters found in China so far.

The Zhouyi, which is popular now, consists of two parts. The first part is called the Book of Changes, that is, the Book of Changes itself, including sixty-four hexagrams, hexagrams, hexagrams names, hexagrams words, hexagrams names and hexagrams words. The second part is called Yi Zhuan, which includes ten articles on seven themes, namely Fu, Xiang, Cohesion, Classical Chinese, Divination, Preface and Miscellaneous Gua.

There are three kinds of arrangement order of the sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi, one is the order of the current popular version, the other is the order of the eight palaces in Fang Jing Yi Zhuan, and the other is the order of Zhouyi unearthed from the No.3 tomb of Mawangdui in Changsha.

The Book of Changes is a book that reveals changes. It consists of Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram, eight diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams.