Zhou Wenwang wrote such a wonderful book as Zhouyi thousands of years ago. Does it have anything to do with aliens?

Zhouyi is one of the most magical works in the history of the Chinese nation. It is still a book that amazes and fascinates the whole world. Moreover, there are countless people who study Zhouyi now. Among these researchers, their cultural level and ideological depth are still very high. However, the book Zhouyi, which fascinated the world for thousands of years, turned out to be written by Zhou Wenwang in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty (although there are many other claims, it is still an authoritative conclusion that the author of Zhouyi is Zhou Wenwang).

You know, thousands of years ago, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, all kinds of human thoughts and cultures were still in their infancy. Why did people at that time not fully understand something and still study it? Because Zhouyi is so abstruse, some people think that it must have been left by aliens who came to earth. At that time, human beings had not reached that level, and they could never write such works.

However, I think the ancients could write this thing. Why do you say that? In order to understand this problem, I think it is necessary for us to clarify a few points. Make these points clear and we will understand. What are the clear points?

First, Zhouyi is a book based on philosophy. Philosophy is a macroscopic understanding and grasp of the world. It is precisely because of the macroscopic understanding and grasp that it can unify many things in the world and make its own explanations for various specific situations in the world, and all of them have a convincing side. This is a unique ability of philosophy. Therefore, when we now use the content of Zhouyi to explain the real events, we will feel very magical and think that Zhouyi is particularly remarkable.

In fact, we will find that not only the Book of Changes, but all philosophies have this function. But because those are all philosophies, we don't think they are magical. When Zhouyi is not regarded as a philosophy, but can explain many phenomena, we think it is amazing. For example. If an ordinary person said you would be in trouble, you wouldn't believe it. But if a famous fortune teller says that you will encounter any trouble, you must believe it. That's the truth.

Secondly, Zhouyi is a book to predict the future. In fact, because the ancients had limited understanding of nature and grasp of social development, they needed something to judge or predict the development of events, so there was Zhouyi. For example, the ancients often waged wars. So, can we win this war or not? Not sure, we need to make a prediction. For another example, the ancients began to plow in spring. Whether this year is a bumper harvest or a disaster, they have no bottom in their hearts and need to predict.

In this case, a prophetic book appeared in ancient times. Although our understanding of nature and the world is more accurate and clear than that of the ancients, we can infer the future "result" from the present "cause". However, we are still willing to use Zhouyi to predict the future. And because we will try to get close to the predicted results, the accuracy of prediction becomes very high. In this way, we feel that Zhouyi is magical and extraordinary.

Third, The Book of Changes is a concise book. How to understand this sentence? Let's look at the eight diagrams, which are actually composed of a long horizontal line and two short horizontal lines. One long horizontal line and two short horizontal lines can represent men and women, yin and yang, positive and negative, and so on. In fact, men and women, yin and yang, right and wrong, these are all contradictions. And our world, everything, is actually formed by such contradictions and interactions.

It is precisely because of the constant transformation and combination of this contradiction that the whole world will be complicated and colorful. Let's see, Zhouyi explains the world in a very concise way. It is this solution that makes it very accurate. So we think Zhouyi is amazing. Fourthly, Zhouyi is a book that is constantly supplemented. Zhouyi has a good opening, as precise as mathematics and as macro as philosophy, so later generations continue to supplement and enrich this book.

In fact, The Book of Changes written by Zhou Wenwang may initially consist of some pictures arranged and combined with two lines of words and sentences explaining these pictures. However, due to the continuous supplement and improvement of later generations, Zhouyi has become more and more complicated and profound. If we understand the above four points, although we still think Zhouyi will be magical, we will not think it is mysterious. (Reference:

Zhouyi et al. )