Is the Book of Changes the legacy of the last civilization?

It is hard to say whether the Book of Changes is a civilization, but it is also the legacy of the last civilization. This statement is obviously melodramatic. The Book of Changes was selected into the Thirteen Classics for two main reasons: First, there were too few books at that time, and even fewer people could find such a systematic book; The second is that the Book of Changes is used for fortune-telling and divination, and national affairs are in glory and in Sri Lanka, so this is the highland that Confucianism needs to occupy.

However, the Book of Changes itself is a folk saying compiled by a group of uneducated fortune tellers. Its significance is not as high as that compiled by Confucianism later, and it is purely a vulgar dialect. The divination and rhetoric in the Book of Changes are just tools for these fortune tellers to eat, and there is nothing mysterious.

The sixty-four hexagrams we see today have nothing mysterious to do with Gan Dui Kun Li Gen Zhen Xun's publication, but they are used to calculate on behalf of others, just like the branches and earthly branches. Because these fortune tellers have just sorted out sixty-four, then square eight is exactly sixty-four, which is calculated by the superposition of gossip.

Moreover, the Book of Changes has been written for a long time and has no predictive function. It's just that there are some doubts in our life, life and death, establishment and abolition, movement and stop, illness and recovery, education and abandonment, success and failure. When we need to make a choice, we should make such a choice first, so as to facilitate people to make a choice.

So the Book of Changes gave these fortune tellers a skill. As long as you memorize the words in the Book of Changes, even if you master a skill, you will not starve to death. However, this is just a craft and cannot be treated as civilization. Although there is a biography of the Book of Changes written by Confucius, it is an exaggeration and misinterpretation of the Book of Changes, which has nothing to do with the language itself.

Summarizing the Book of Changes is called the source of Chinese civilization and is the high crystallization of Chinese civilization thought. We in China pay attention to harmony, and the source of the golden mean is Zhouyi. The Book of Changes includes Sanyi Lianshan, Ghost Stories and Zhouyi. Originated from the government, Guanhe Tuluo pushed gossip. Fu is the ancestor of Chinese civilization, and the natural book of changes is also the origin of Chinese civilization, not the legacy of the previous civilization. How many past events have been lost in the torrent of history, and the Book of Changes has also been lost. No matter how history changes, the Book of Changes has long been integrated into all aspects of Chinese civilization and is a gorgeous treasure of Chinese civilization.