Who are the people who read the Book of Changes?

I often travel abroad and once met an uncle who sat with me on the high-speed rail. My uncle watched me read books related to the Book of Changes, telling the Book of Changes and fortune telling. My uncle said that he liked strange things when he was young. Later, my family burned all my uncle's fortune-telling books, saying that most people should not learn the Book of Changes, and not everyone can read the Book of Changes, because people who learn the Book of Changes are unlucky, so my uncle stopped reading them. I thought it was just my uncle's opinion. When chatting in the group, many young people also heard the speaker's statement. Today, I will carefully study who is reading the Book of Changes and see if it will be unlucky.

Ordinary people should not learn the Book of Changes.

Let's start with the ancient times and see how the ancient people treated the Book of Changes. Since Fuxi painted hexagrams into the Book of Changes, it has gone through many generations, and it was perfected in the Zhou Dynasty, and Confucius made a biography in the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, the modern Book of Changes refers to the Book of Changes+Book of Changes+He Tu and Luo Shu. In Qin Dynasty, books were burned to bury Confucianism, and agriculture, medicine and Yi were preserved, among which "Yi" refers to the Book of Changes and related books.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were many fortune-telling and divination techniques based on the Book of Changes. By the Tang Dynasty, fortune-telling and divination techniques had developed greatly. In the Song Dynasty, the Book of Changes was known as the "head of the group classics". Since then, the Book of Changes has always been a must-read book for scholars in all dynasties (except the present), and even in scientific research, the topic of "Book of Changes" often appears. In ancient times, it can be said that the Book of Changes was a compulsory subject for temple officials (ancient civil servants).

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It is conceivable that there were not many entertainment projects in ancient times. Colleagues from the Red Chamber (brothel) and the Literary Association (ancient party) learn from each other (pretend to be X). You don't know the Book of Changes, and people won't take you to play. If this is left to modern times, you will cut off your circle of friends.

Say so much, that is to say, people in ancient times have learned the Book of Changes. As for the saying that "ordinary people should not learn the Book of Changes", there are two reasons:

1, The Book of Changes and fortune telling are different and have something in common, so people are easily confused and mistake the Book of Changes for fortune telling. Fortune telling is a skill number. The theory of skill number comes from the Book of Changes, but fortune-telling does not fully represent the Book of Changes. Fortune-telling has the saying of "five evils and three deficiencies" (five evils: widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, loneliness and disability; Three shortages: wealth, happiness, wealth), the common people can't tell clearly, and they think that learning the Book of Changes is fortune telling, so they have this statement.

Nan Zeng, a master of modern Chinese studies, said in his book that people should try not to read the Book of Changes and Buddhist scriptures because they are too abstruse. If you learn, you will be fascinated. If you enter, you will not get out, which has a great impact on your life. We ordinary people need to support our families. If we study hard, it will definitely affect our life. So what Mr. nan huaijin means is that you can read the Book of Changes, but don't be obsessed with it. This knowledge can't be learned by reading it several times. The more you learn, the deeper you become. If you are not an expert and scholar, don't be too obsessed with it.

This is where the phrase "most people don't learn the Book of Changes" comes from. You don't have to treat the Book of Changes as something too mysterious, because there are some mysterious phenomena in it, so you can't learn anything. Look at things objectively, study rigorously, speak with reason, and don't follow suit.