What kind of book is the Book of Changes?

The Book of Changes is familiar to the public. Yes, that's right, the name is more familiar to everyone, because in fact, one of the special features of this book is that people only know its name and rarely see its face. Many people think that this book is a divination book, and they often say "Look at the Book of Changes, a fortune-telling book" as soon as they hear the name of this book. . . In this case, the general public thinks that the Book of Changes is a book of divination, but it is one-sided on the whole. Usually people don't know much about this book, but most of them are hearsay, or the way they don't understand after reading it.

Actually, I will think before reading this book. How did The First Classic become a fortune-telling book? Is it doubtful that there is such a big loophole in China culture? From the perspective of modern science, divination is simply a superstition.

So here I want to give you a little comb this book. Judging from the contents of the Book of Changes, this book is composed of many hexagrams, totaling 64 hexagrams, each composed of six hexagrams, and then each hexagram has its own relative rhetoric to explain the image. Simply put, it is to use the symbols of divinatory symbols to simulate the development and changes of everything in the world, so as to explain various principles. Generally speaking, Interpretation of Divination Rhetoric is not like a narrative, but more like a dictionary for us to consult. Of course, there is also a method of divination behind this book. For divination, the author will spend an article to analyze and explain it next time. Here I just tell you some general information about this book.

The whole idea of the Book of Changes is "one yin and one yang is the way", and everything is formed by the interaction of yin and yang. Male and female, high and low, strong and weak. . . . . These things merge with each other and produce a rich world. Sixty-four hexagrams fully illustrate the way things are formed. As long as there is a change in each hexagram, the whole will change, that is, "pulling one hair and moving the whole body." Of course, when we look at hexagrams, we can look at them in combination with various things themselves, that is to say, hexagrams are a template, and all our things are external manifestations of the template, and we don't know.

In a word, The Book of Changes is a principle book with the function of divination, but not only that, it is also a book explaining the formation and development of everything, like a dictionary, which can be used for our reference at any time. Everyone may be most concerned about divination, so the author will explain it in detail next time.