It is said that the Book of Changes is difficult to learn. Where is it?

The Book of Changes, as the general source of China traditional culture, has been regarded as a classic for thousands of years, and even has the reputation of "the head of the group classics". What is group sutra? The "classics" here are the general name of all the wisdom classics of Chinese studies, including all the four books, five classics and a hundred schools of thought. It can be said that the Book of Changes is all-encompassing, and it is the general source of the wise's "words and deeds".

Then some people will ask, is the Book of Changes difficult to learn? In fact, this problem has been puzzling the vast number of Yi-ology enthusiasts, especially those novices who have not entered the Yijing portal. When answering this question, many masters of Chinese studies will make the Yijing extremely complicated and difficult, which makes people more confused, let alone have an epiphany.

In fact, before answering the difficult questions of the Book of Changes, we need to know where the difficulties are for ordinary people to learn the Book of Changes, and find out where the problems are in order to "prescribe the right medicine". There is an old saying in China that "if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first". When the root cause was found, the solution to the problem came into being.

The biggest difficulty in learning the Book of Changes is not gossip, because everyone has long been familiar with the gossip of the Book of Changes, and even those who don't understand it can explain it. Beginners of the Book of Changes don't need to understand the way of thinking of the Book of Changes, because these are all slowly realized and understood in later study. If you are too eager for success, it will backfire.

In fact, the biggest pain point and obstacle for novice friends to learn Yijing lies in the large number of hexagrams in Yijing. Every two hexagrams in the Eight Diagrams in the Book of Changes are arranged and combined to form sixty-four hexagrams. Each hexagram represents a different meaning, and there are six poems in it, so it is combined into three hundred and eighty-four hexagrams.

The sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes are the life codes of all things in the universe. Reading the Book of Changes is actually reading the origin of the sixty-four hexagrams, seeing a certain hexagram, knowing its evolution process and memorizing it skillfully. It is conceivable that this is indeed a mountain for beginners of the Book of Changes, and the classical Chinese in it has a history of thousands of years. It's easy to get confused in the middle of reading.

There are so many divination images in the Book of Changes that every divination can be viewed from both sides, such as Shuileitun divination, which in turn becomes landscape divination; The divination of the local navy, in turn, turned into a land-water comparison, which also invisibly increased the learning burden.

Then the pain point of learning the Book of Changes has been found, and the next step is to solve the problem. In fact, there are shortcuts to learning the Book of Changes, and the common method for smart people to learn the Book of Changes is the extended memory method of the Book of Changes card. What is the extended memory method of Yijing card? In fact, the operation and learning are very simple: we need to make 64 cards of the same size, and then write 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes on them, write the words of each book at the bottom, and mark the serial number on the top of the cards.

After these preparations are completed, we need to shuffle the order of 64 cards, and then use our spare time to randomly select one of them to watch. In the process of reading, we can read silently, then turn the card over and read it silently again. There is no need to learn by rote during the period, just watch.