Yijing story

My last name is Yi, but I'm not easy.

When I thought of making a series of contents about the Book of Changes, I naturally felt annoyed. Because the Book of Changes is the first of China's group classics, although it is called the Book of Changes, it has been studied and annotated by countless ancestors for more than 2,000 years, and has undergone more than 4,000 different interpretations. Because the Book of Changes was written more than 2000 years ago, the Chinese characters in it are abstruse and difficult to understand. No wonder so many people interpret it.

My name is Jing, but this is not an easy book to read.

Also, if you ask what the Book of Changes is, it's really a long story. The Book of Changes is a book of divination in principle. But by the time of Confucius, the Book of Changes began to become a book about philosophy after Confucius explained it with Confucianism. Later, Taoism developed into a set of important principles in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and at the same time became the basis of qigong!

The Book of Changes inherits and develops the divination system in Xia and Shang Dynasties, which also contains some stories about Dayu's discovery of gossip. The divination system in Xia Dynasty was called "Lianshan", and that in Shang Dynasty was called "Returning to Tibet". In the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang made a systematic summary of Ji Chang. Since then, this divination system has been called Zhouyi.

A classic that is constantly being interpreted.

At the end of Zhou Dynasty, Confucius became the first person to annotate the contents of Yijing in the history of Yijing. His annotation was called Ten Wings, or Yi Zhuan to be exact, but ironically, the Ten Wings were later "annotated" by countless people.

Although Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, he was preserved as a divination and medical book. In the Han Dynasty, because the Han people highly advocated Yin and Yang and the five elements, they regarded "balance" as the most natural thing in the world. Therefore, the idea of "balance" permeates every corner of life, and the Book of Changes is no exception. On the basis of the Book of Changes, Han people added the concepts of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, among which Fang Jingjia was the representative.

Although the culture of the Tang Dynasty was splendid, Ibrahimovic did not fundamentally change. Until the Song Dynasty. ....

The Song and Ming Dynasties is an important era of Yi-ology, because at this time, two outstanding figures appeared-Shao and Shao. He changed the traditional method of divination and put forward various methods of "plum blossom heart change" and "elephant divination", which are completely opposite to the traditional method of "elephant divination" The other is Zhu, who initiated Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties for hundreds of years. Make the Book of Changes develop into a set of spiritual philosophy and ethical system, and realize introspection. Influence to this day.

Therefore, it is really difficult to describe this classic which contains thousands of years of China culture in a narrow space. However, I can still lead you to explore this knowledge from the shallow to the deep.