Confucius fortune-telling Wei

The history book (Historical Records: Confucius' Family) records the story of his reading of the Book of Changes, saying that he "read the Book of Changes, and Wei compiled three unique skills". The Book of Changes is a great philosophical work in ancient China (written by Zhou Wenwang, the father of Zhou Wuwang, the founding king of the Zhou Dynasty). It is about the laws of the development and change of nature and human society, and it is about the truth of our daily life. Its content is profound and extensive. Since it came out, most of China's thinkers' academic thoughts have come from him. "Wei" is the rope of cooked cowhide, "edge" means combination, "three" is a function word here, indicating many times, and "absolutely" means breaking here. In Confucius' time, paper had not been invented. Paper was invented by a man named Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The characters are written on bamboo slips and then woven together with cooked cowhide ropes. Confucius read the Book of Changes so diligently that the cowhide rope of bamboo slips was broken many times.

Confucius' sentence "Reading is easy, Bian Wei has three unique skills" has three meanings: first, study hard; Second, study hard; Thirdly, repetition is an important learning method.