What is the Book of Changes?

The Book of Changes is one of the oldest Han documents in China, and is regarded as the beginning of the Five Classics by Confucianism. The Book of Changes describes the country's simplicity, changes and difficulties with a set of symbol systems, and shows the philosophy and cosmology of China's classical culture. Its central idea is to interpret the inherent characteristics and laws of natural operation, to interpret the alternating changes of yin and yang, and to describe everything in the world.

The Book of Changes, including Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi, have been lost, and Zhouyi is the only scripture that has been passed down to later generations.

Extended data:

1, "Lianshan" takes the four seasons and six qi as the rise and fall orientation, the Liujia value symbol as the coordinate for judging good and bad luck, and the three yuan and nine luck as the time-space transformation. It is different from the dialectical method of guiding conceptual theory with Jin Mu's objective theory of fire, water, soil and five elements. Its innate eight diagrams, headed by Gen (Mountain), mainly focus on the opposition between Yin and Yang hexagrams.

2. The Book of Changes, traditionally regarded as the Book of Changes of Shang Dynasty, has been lost since Wei and Jin Dynasties. Most of the 4300 words in "Gui Zang" have been lost, and only 64 hexagrams are preserved.

3. According to legend, The Book of Changes was written by Zhou Wenwang Jichang, and its contents include classics and biographies. The Book of Changes did not put forward the concepts of Yin-Yang and Taiji, but was influenced by Taoism and Yin-Yang theory.

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