What is the Book of Changes about?

As the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes, most people find it very mysterious and have a very strong interest in it. So what exactly is Yi about? This is a question of how to locate. From the perspective of China's traditional culture, The Book of Changes can be divided into several schools: firstly, The Book of Changes of Confucianism is one of the six Confucian classics, and the Book of Changes in a strict sense belongs to the Confucian classics. With the emergence of magical powers in the early Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Book of Changes has formed an indissoluble bond with Taoism, which has been greatly developed, especially the rise of Neidan. The Book of Changes pays attention to reason, qi, image and technique, while Taoism pays more attention to qi, combining the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes with the operation of human qi. There are also many theories of Chinese medicine that cannot be separated from the guidance of the Book of Changes, such as the so-called homology of medicine and Yi, such as the meridian Liu Zhu of acupuncture; Buddhism also has a lot of discussions about "Yi". In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, some Buddhist wizards preached the truth of Buddhism by expounding Yi. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Changzhe, one of the founders of Hua Yanzong, was a layman. He used the Book of Changes system to talk about Huayan Sutra, and wrote a book "On the Combination of Huayan Sutra", which is another way in Buddhism.

As an important foundation of China's traditional cultural theory, Yi, together with Laozi and Zhuangzi's thoughts, played an extremely important role in the formation and development of China's ancient cosmology and worldview. Han Yi attaches importance to image and justice, but many branches of Yi Xue always pay attention to and tend to its predictive side. Of course, as the "Yi" itself, it was used for divination in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which is inseparable from divination. Businessmen are still ghosts, and their politics are full of the flavor of the integration of politics and religion. Theocracy and political power are inseparable, and every major event is often decided by divination. Xia Youshan, Yin has returned to Tibet, and Zhou has Zhouyi. Before Zhouyi, the main function of Yi was used for divination. However, after the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang changed the scheming of ghosts into the scheming of people, emphasized people's subjective initiative, advocated people-oriented thought, played down the divination function of "Yi", and incorporated the theory of Yi-ology into the road of self-cultivation to make it the mainstream of Yi-ology. In the Book of Changes? 6? In "1 copula", it is said: "The trip to Yi is also in the middle ages." Do you have any worries? "Zhou Wenwang overlapped Fuxi's gossip in pairs, evolved into eight, eight and sixty-four hexagrams, and played them. Duke Zhou and Confucius added images, haiku, divination and classical Chinese, which became the important guiding ideology for people to seek self-cultivation and grasp the development and operation law of things in the future.

It is easy to distinguish between reason, qi, image and technique. First of all, we should pay attention to "reason", that is, easy reason If you don't even know Li Yi, you can't talk about Qi, images and skills. In the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes, each hexagram contains principle, qi, image and technique, but Yi Li is the foundation. The so-called "Book of Changes" is the principle that the Book of Changes explains the law of development and evolution of things based on the cosmology and worldview in the Book of Changes, which is the ideological essence of the Book of Changes. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Changes was mainly used for divination and prediction. In the Han Dynasty, the principles, qi, physiognomy and technique of the Book of Changes were brought into full play. After the Song Dynasty, people began to pay attention to the principles of the Book of Changes, and prediction was only the last stream of the Book of Changes. The main schools of prophecy are Zi Shuping, Wei Zi's Dou Shu, Daoism, geomantic omen, etc., all of which are inseparable from the Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory of Yi-ology and the theory of dry branches and branches. Five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth; Tiangan: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui; Dizhi: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Strictly speaking, this is China's ancient numerology theory, with corresponding deduction formula, and its basic theory is exactly the same as that of traditional Chinese medicine.

Predictive science has a history of more than 3,000 years in China, and it came into being after the Song Dynasty. It is reasonable and unreasonable to classify this set of knowledge into superstition now. The reasonable place is that ordinary people are addicted to mathematics and fortune telling, lose interest, reduce their ability to grasp and transform themselves, and lack the spirit to dominate their own destiny. However, we should understand that when we talk about the principle, qi, image and technique of Zhouyi, it directly promoted the development of ancient natural science in China and was fully affirmed by Chinese and foreign academic circles. What we appreciate here is Yi Li, which is a unique set of knowledge about China. According to academic theory, China's Book of Changes contains rich and simple dialectics and logical thinking. In the Book of Changes, it has a very rich and high ideological realm. If we only use logical theory to explain the Book of Changes, it is impossible to fully grasp the thought and essence of the Book of Changes.