What is the Book of Changes about?

The Book of Changes is about divination and academic knowledge, such as heavenly stems and earthly branches.

The Book of Changes was originally used for divination and weather forecast, but its influence covers China's philosophy, religion, politics, economy, medicine, astronomy, arithmetic, literature, music, art, military and martial arts, and it is an all-encompassing masterpiece.

The Book of Changes is essentially a book about changes, which has long been used as "divination". Later generations know more about his philosophy, thus becoming a profound dialectical philosophical work. "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 culture. The vast and the subtle are all-encompassing.

Traditional historical statements—

The name of Zhouyi was first seen in Zhou Li (formerly known as Zhou Guan, written in the Warring States Period).

The completion time of Zhouyi has always been controversial. It is said that ancient Fuxi created the Eight Diagrams, and Yu Xia expanded it into sixty-four hexagrams, which were recorded in the book Lianshan, in which "root" was the first hexagram. In Shang Dynasty, the order of sixty-four hexagrams was rearranged and recorded in the book "Returning to Tibet", with "Kun" as the first hexagram.

According to Sima Qian's Historical Records, "prison is easy to gossip and sixty-four hexagrams." Later generations believe that Zhouyi was founded in the late Shang Dynasty and the early Western Zhou Dynasty, which laid the foundation for Zhouyi, taking "hexagrams" as the first divination and writing "hexagrams" for each divination.

Zhou Gongdan, the son and brother of Zhou Wenwang, is regarded as the founder of Yi Ci. The content of the hexagrams not only influenced the history of the Zhou Dynasty, but also influenced the style of the Book of Songs.

Extended data:

Zhouyi-

I ching includes I ching and I ching in a narrow sense. According to legend, The Book of Changes was based on the Book of Changes edited by the chief editor and was written in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Due to the evolution of the times, the meaning of Zhouyi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was difficult to understand, so Confucius wrote Ten Wings, which was later called Yijing and included in Yijing.

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.

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. There are eight diagrams in Zhouyi: Gangua, Kungua, Zhengua, Gengua, Ligua, Kangua, Dugua and Haigua.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Yijing