Ultra-simple collection of basic knowledge of the Book of Changes

The Book of Changes refers to Lianshan in Xia Dynasty, Tibet in Shang Dynasty, and Zhouyi in Zhou Dynasty, collectively referred to as the Book of Changes. Generally speaking, The Book of Changes is the theoretical starting point of many thinkers in ancient China, and it is also one of the masterpieces for people to cultivate their self-cultivation and improve their thinking. It is also the essence of China ancient culture. Next, let's go to the Book of Changes and look at the basic knowledge about the Book of Changes.

Introduction to the Book of Changes:

The Book of Changes is divided into three parts: Lianshan in Xia Dynasty, Tibetan in Shang Dynasty and Zhouyi in Zhou Dynasty, also known as Three Changes. Huan Tan, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, said in the New Classics: "There are 80,000 words in Lianshan, and 4,300 words are collected in Tibet (Qin bamboo slips). Lianshan was hidden in Lantai and returned to Taibu. "

On "Three Changes" Zhou Li "holds the method of three changes, one is easy to connect mountains, the other is easy to return to Tibet, and the third is Zhouyi, all of which have eight classics, and the other six classics are four". That is to say, in the Zhou Dynasty, three books, Lianshan Yi, Guizang Yi and Zhouyi, were easily controlled by fortune tellers to predict state affairs, military wars and sacrificial activities.

Among them, Lianshan and Guizang were lost after Wei and Jin Dynasties or absorbed by Buddhism and Taoism as classics or lost, which became the eternal mystery in the cultural field of China, and only Zhouyi was passed down from generation to generation.

The Book of Changes is essentially a book about changes, which has long been used as "divination". "Divination" is to predict the development of future events, and The Book of Changes is a book that summarizes the laws and theories of these predictions. The Book of Changes is an outstanding representative of China traditional culture. Vast, subtle and all-encompassing, it is also the source of Chinese civilization.

I ching content:

1, Lianshan

It is said that "Lianshan" was written by or by Shennong, and it was written in the Xia Dynasty. Lianshan, Zhouyi and Guizang are also called three tests.

Lianshan is one of the three changes, headed by "divination". "Zhou Li Chun Guan Dabu": "The third method turns the palm into a mountain. The second is to return to Tibet, and the third is Zhouyi. " Zheng Xuan said in "Notes on the Rites of Zhou Dynasty": "It is called Lianshan, which seems to be a mountain with internal qi". Gu's "Three Changes of Rizhilu": "Lianshan is not easy to return to Tibet. And Yunyi, later generations named it after Yi. " Legend has it that Lianshan fell in the early Han Dynasty, and Huan Tan's New Theory said, "Lianshan is hidden in Lantai".

Shao Yong in the Northern Song Dynasty said: "Lianshan uses 97 tactics, taking eight as" Yi ",correcting hexagrams 10 16, changing one's mind16, changing one's mind 3250 12, and breaking them by several generations. Its good luck or bad luck must not be easy. " Further discussion on "Lianshan" is the "summer turtle" in Shu Shu lue. Ma Guohan's Yu Han Shan Fang Ji contains a volume of Lianshan.

Step 2 Return to Tibet

Traditionally regarded as the Book of Changes of Shang Dynasty, Gui Zang has been lost since Wei and Jin Dynasties. "Shangyi" returned to Tibet with Kun as the head.

"Returning to Tibet" is one of the three changes. "Li Zhou Guan Chun" said: "The method of Taibu Zhang's three changes is to connect mountains, return to Tibet and Zhouyi. Its classics are all eight, and the rest are sixty-four. " It means that Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi are three different divination methods, but they are all composed of 64 single divination and 8 divination. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor wrote "Return to Tibet", with 4300 words. Xuan Weng, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, said: "Gui Shu Cang was written by the Yellow Emperor. And the sixty jiazi and the congenital sixty-four hexagrams merged into one, and Yi Zhongtian returned to Tibet. " .

It is said that Guizang was lost in the Han Dynasty, because it was not recorded in history and literature. The Annals of Sui Shu Classics also said: "Guizang died in the early Han Dynasty, but in the Jin Dynasty classics, it only contained divination, unlike the sage's purpose." Yang Shen in the Ming Dynasty believed that Tibet was not lost in the Han Dynasty. "Even the mountains are hidden in Lantai, and the Tibet is hidden in Taibu. If you see Huan Tan's Xinzhenglun, Lianshan and Guizang, the Han Dynasty still exists, so you can't doubt Yiwenzhi without listing them. " Zhu Yizun, a scholar in A Qing, said: "There was still a trend of returning to Tibet in the Sui Dynasty, and there were still three articles cited by biographies in the Song Dynasty."

1in March, 1993, the Qin tomb at Wangjiatai 15, Jiangling, Hubei Province, was unearthed, which was called the return to Tibet of the Qin bamboo slips of Wangjiatai, and set off a new upsurge of research on the return to Tibet. Some people think that Qin bamboo slips are not only "Gui Zang", but more accurately, Zheng in "Gui Zang Yi".

3. Zhouyi

According to legend, The Book of Changes was written by Zhou Wenwang Jichang, and its contents include classics and biographies. Classics are mainly composed of sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four hexagrams, which have their own interpretations (hexagrams and hexagrams) for textual research. The Book of Changes did not put forward the concepts of Yin-Yang and Taiji, but was influenced by Taoism and Yin-Yang theory. It contains seven languages * * * and ten quatrains explaining hexagrams, which are collectively called Ten Wings. It is said that it was written by Confucius.

Zhouyi is an ancient philosophical work of China, which demonstrates and describes the operating law of things based on the dualism of Yin and Yang. It classifies the characters of all things in the world and heavenly stems and earthly branches's Five Elements Theory, even accurate enough to predict the future development of things.