You can't understand this book, don't believe it.

Confucius admired the Book of Changes. The Analects? There is a record in Shu Er, "Confucius said: Add me a few years old and learn the Book of Changes at 50, so there is no big deal." The Book of Changes is the root of China's traditional culture, and its obscurity is regarded as "a heavenly book with words".

? Objectively evaluating the Book of Changes is a book of philosophy and divination. Its book proces can be traced back to Fuxi 7000 year ago, Zhou Wenwang 3000 years ago and Confucius 2500 years ago. As an ancient tribal leader, Fuxi looked up at the astronomical phenomena, looked down at the geography, observed the birds and beasts and himself, and then drew eight diagrams; Zhou Wenwang, as a famous warlord in the Shang Dynasty in the Middle Ages, played Zhouyi after his arrest, and turned the gossip into sixty-four hexagrams. As the founder of modern Confucian school, Confucius studied the Book of Changes and annotated it as the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes currently in circulation is composed of The Book of Changes and The Book of Changes.

Confucius revealed that the Book of Changes contains yin and yang, and contacted Taoism, saying that "one yin and one yang is the Tao". In fact, The Book of Changes also contains the idea of the middle way advocated by Zhou Wenwang. Hua Qing bamboo slips in the "Baoxun" said that "the things of Yin and Yang, the amount is not reversed, along the middle way." The core idea is the middle way. The Book of Changes is obscure for three reasons.

First, The Book of Changes is different from all other books. It originated from "symbolic image" and has a long history, giving it unlimited imagination. For example, people can imagine the divination of sweet potatoes as a symbol of all day, dragon, gentleman, masculinity and endless life.

Second, all kinds of scholars over-explain, and all kinds of magicians are far-fetched. It has produced two schools, namely, the school of righteousness and physiognomy, and these two schools contain many small schools, such as the school of righteousness, the school of Qi and the school of Xin. They have their own school of thought and have created a set of their own systematic theories on the basis of the Book of Changes. For example, the rationalist school, Zhou Dunyi, created the Taiji diagram theory, and the Taiji culture we are talking about in modern times comes from the neo-Confucianism system created by Zhou Dunyi. The familiar Taiji diagram was improved by Zhu's absorption of Zhou Dunyi's ideas and schema in Neo-Confucianism.

Thirdly, the five elements, orientation and heavenly stems and earthly branches are all included in the Book of Changes, which makes it more complicated and extensive.

For the above reasons, for thousands of years, no one can really understand the whole Book of Changes. I dare say that my explanation is the real explanation, and others are all wrong.