What exactly is Zhouyi? Isn't it amazing?

How to say the three-character book of changes? There are three detailed versions of the Book of Changes: Lianshan Yi, Guizang Yi and Zhouyi. Generally, we all know the Book of Changes today, but there were actually two systems besides the Book of Changes at that time, one was Lianshanyi and the other was Guizang. What is left now is the Book of Changes, which can be recognized by scholars. So I can only say Zhouyi first. Of course, it is impossible to say when Zhouyi was written, but some or a considerable part of it, or the main part, was written in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhouyi is a profound and all-encompassing work. Of course, this is not something we can discuss in detail here. I think it should be noted that we can often come into contact with the use of Zhouyi or the cover and banner of Zhouyi for the sole purpose of fortune telling. How can we understand this behavior and this phenomenon? We must first understand that the ancients are closer to Zhouyi than we are. What did the ancients and people in the Spring and Autumn Period think of Zhouyi? This is probably the most important thing. Confucius is actually the best example of the ancients' treatment of Zhouyi. Confucius worked hard to read the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes in his later years. Confucius' students felt a little strange after seeing it and asked, Teacher, do you also believe in divination? Confucius said that there are many ancient philosophies in Yi. I read it not to delve into divination and divination, but to study the truth. Confucius' attitude towards Zhouyi deserves our consideration. Zhouyi is a treasure of China culture and a treasure house of China traditional culture. Our descendants of the Chinese nation should be proud of having such a treasure, and should also feel their responsibility, read, understand and comprehend in a proper way, apply the truth conveyed by Zhouyi, and understand and comprehend the philosophy in Zhouyi in a proper way. The Book of Changes is the earliest work in the history of China and the source of China's philosophical thought. We should try our best to understand the profound philosophical thoughts in the Book of Changes, but the three-character book says that the Book of Changes has three easy details. What do these three simple details mean? There are two meanings, one meaning is summary. As I said before, there are three changes in Zhouyi: Lianshan, Renzang and Zhouyi. Ok, this is three changes, three changes. Another significance is far-reaching. How to write Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Book of Changes, one day above and one month below (see the picture below). What do you mean? First of all, simplicity means that you can look up like the sun and the moon. The reason is often simple, clear, easy and simple. Second, change. Just like the sun and the moon, they are constantly running, changing every day and moving all the time, so it tells us to be bright, in other words, you can keep pace with the times, and smart people know the changes. A wise man will know the change; Wise people change accordingly. I don't know anyway, so they change with it. And those smart people don't know how to change. I don't know how to change. I'm here anyway, so I don't care whether I stay or not. Relax, relax. This is the second time. Third, it is not easy. The sun and the moon will never collide, so there is also a hard and eternal meaning in it. In a word, I ching is profound and requires us to make great efforts to learn and comprehend it. We know that the Book of Changes, which is easy to be lost, contains rich philosophical thoughts and humanistic knowledge, which is naturally worth our study, which will be discussed below. However, some people may have some problems with their road numbers. What is a road number? Excessive attention and mechanical understanding. There are mysterious elements of divination and fortune-telling in the Book of Changes, which is inevitably a bit furtive. What did the ancients mean when they said,' It's ominous to look for fish deep'? Looking there, I saw every fish in the river. Don't think it's because you have a good eye. The ancients thought this was an ominous sign, not a good thing. Sometimes you think you know everything, everything. Who do you think are many fortune tellers in traditional China? The blind. You have to pretend to be blind if you are not blind, otherwise your fortune teller will not believe you, and you have to do the math. It's more like, with your eyes wide open, who cares about you? Why, because there is a traditional saying, this man let the cat out of the bag, a thief. Of course, we won't comment on the truth of this statement here, but we will talk about China's traditional view. This kind of thinking, furtive, is often useless. Forget the ancients. For example, not too far away, a very important battle that decided the fate of new China, the Huaihai Campaign. At the beginning, the Kuomintang had a fully armed mechanized unit with strong combat effectiveness. Its commander is Qiu Qingquan, who is also a famous general. He led the troops to settle down and saw it in a yard, which was outrageous. Why is there a tree in the middle of the yard? There is a forest in the middle of the yard. This is not "sleepy". As soon as he figured it out, he couldn't, so he trapped me, ordered to cut down trees, and walked around the yard with a talkative person next to him. Say this is not a prisoner, the prisoner of the prisoner, and you gave yourself to the prisoner. Qiu Qingquan said, Oh, no, it's a folklore to wander outside the yard from now on, but he forgot that his headquarters is located in Shangqiu, Shangqiu, Henan. Later, he was defeated by himself and committed suicide. Finally, is it unlucky or something? This is a thief. Because your failure is not because your house has a fence, there are no trees there, you are not wandering in the yard, your headquarters is in Shangqiu, but the power you represent is rotten. So things that are easy to lose may also be thieves.

The above is Professor Qian Wenzhong's interpretation of the Book of Changes.