The Book of Changes in Three Ancient Books

The Book of Changes, also known as the Book of Changes, has a far-reaching influence in China and even the world, but it is an ancient book that no one really understands since the Qin and Han Dynasties until today. Zhouyi is divided into classic department and biography department. The classic department, formerly known as Zhouyi, reveals the typical image meaning of 450 hexagrams and judges the corresponding good and bad luck. The transmission system includes classical Chinese, Zhuan Zhuan, Xiangzhuan, Zhuan Zhuan, Shuogua Zhuan and Zhuan Zhuan Zhuan.

Overview of Zhouyi

It is said that the birthplace of Zhouyi is the world heritage city Anyang. Qili City is located at 10 km south of Anyang City. The most basic element of the Yi Gua system is the concept of Yin and Yang, including the nature and state of Yin and Yang. If we ignore the state of Yin and Yang and only talk about their nature, we can use Yang Yao (-) and Yin Yao (-) to represent Yin and Yang. The above-mentioned Yin and Yang hexagrams are overlapped three times from bottom to top, forming eight basic hexagrams, namely, "Gan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Hui", which are called Eight Classics hexagrams. You can get six hexagrams by overlapping eight classics and hexagrams. * * * * There are sixty-four hexagrams, which are called other sixty-four hexagrams, and each hexagram has a specific name. If we consider the state of Yin and Yang again, the concept of Yin and Yang can be further divided into four situations, namely "old Yin, Lao Yang, less Yin and less Yang", which can be expressed by four symbols, namely "X, O,-,-,-". Each order of each hexagram may have four states of Yin and Yang, so there are 4096 different hexagrams in all the hexagrams changing systems. If all the hexagrams with the same yin and yang properties are put together, 64 subsystems with the same name of the main hexagrams can be formed, which can be called a hexagram system. The content of the text description in the Book of Changes is the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of some Yi hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams system and the corresponding judgment of personnel quality (called occupation). Among them, the first item of each divination system is the corresponding static divination, and the last six items (there are seven items in Gankun divination system) are the sequential divination of the corresponding divination system. After Qin and Han dynasties, there was a wrong or vague understanding of it.

The books divination and Zhouyi originated from the practice of divination in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Perhaps at the end of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang wrote down the hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams system. Later in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' disciples inherited Confucius' discovery of Zhouyi and wrote Yi Zhuan. When Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, Lisi listed it as a medical divination book and preserved it.

The invention of using gossip to predict information in Zhouyi is a true portrayal of China people's materialistic world outlook. They know the society, transform it, and promote its continuous development in practice. Therefore, Yi Gua and Zhouyi are a great information base.

After thousands of years of vicissitudes, Zhouyi has become the root of China culture. Yi Dao pays attention to the interaction between Yin and Yang, combines rigidity with softness, and advocates self-improvement and morality. In the 5,000-year history of civilization, it is a difficult thing in our daily life that the Chinese nation has been able to endure numerous disasters for a long time, avoid difficulties, recover from the decline and continue to grow and develop, which is closely related to our nation's grasp of the times of Yi Dao spirit. We don't turn to idols, but use the scientific method of gossip to predict information about nature and people, so as to know everything.

Zhouyi is a splendid cultural treasure in ancient times, which was used by the ancients to predict the future, make decisions on state affairs, reflect the current situation and measure heaven, earth and personnel. However, this is only a means that the ancients relied on before mastering the scientific method, and it is not a real science. Although some understandings are scientific, it is because they are only scientific and reasonable, but they cannot be said to be scientific. It can only be regarded as a culture.

At present, there is still no significant progress in the exploration of the principle of Yi-ology in China, and the theoretical research is stagnant, and the thinking is chaotic, and the practical application tends to be mystical. The above situation has seriously distorted the academic status of Yi-ology, hindered the benign development of China Yi-ology, and blinded the true value of Yi-ology.

The Book of Changes is a classic that can best reflect the culture of China. It holds that everything in the world is developing and changing, and the basic elements of its change are Yin (-) and Yang (-). The Book of Changes says, "One yin and one yang is the way." Everything in the world is the result of the interaction of yin and yang. The research object of Zhouyi is heaven, earth and man, and man is the foundation. Three talents have their own yin and yang, so the Book of Changes has six hexagrams. As Shuo Gua said: "Heaven stands for Yin and Yang, the earth stands for rigidity and softness, and man stands for benevolence and righteousness. It's a combination of three talents, so "easy" is stubborn. It is divided into yin and yang, and it is both rigid and soft, so the Book of Changes is six chapters. " Gankun is the divination of pure yang, and Kun is the divination of pure yin. Gan Kun is the general representative of Yin and Yang, and also the foundation of Yin and Yang. In Cohesion, Confucius said that "dry Kun becomes evil" and "dry Kun becomes evil". Yi Gan Wei Zhi Du said: "Gan Kun is the root of Yin and Yang and the ancestor of all things." The ranking of the popular Book of Changes is based on the preface and divination, with Gan and Kun as the first. "Cohesion" begins with: "Heaven honors the earth, and you can do it. Humble and high, with Chen, high and low. There are both movements and movements, and there are just softness. " Classical Chinese is a biography devoted to the study of Gankun's divination virtue, which extends Gankun's divination virtue to the category of humanistic morality. This shows that Gan and Kun are the two most important hexagrams in Zhouyi, and they are also the basis of the philosophy of Yin and Yang in Zhouyi.