Who is the author of Zhouyi?

Three authors of Zhouyi: Fuxi, Zhou Wenwang and Confucius.

Zhou Wenwang Jichang 1. According to Sima Qian's Letter to Ren An, it is proposed that "Wang Wen was arrested and went to Zhouyi", which must have been written by Zhou Wenwang and Ji Chang. This is also recognized by most people.

2. Fuxi. Because Ban Gu recorded in "Han Shu Literature and Art": "Yi Dao is deep, people are more sacred, and the world is three ancient." The meaning of this sentence is that the Book of Changes was not written by a single author in a certain historical dynasty, but was completed by three saints: Fuxi, Zhou Wenwang and Confucius, who experienced three times: ancient times, middle ages and ancient times.

3. Confucius Confucius also recorded the Zhouyi, but most people did not recognize it.

Book writing background

In the early society of China, due to the low productivity and underdeveloped science, the ancestors could not give scientific explanations to natural phenomena, social phenomena and human physiological phenomena, which led to the worship of God and thought that there was a supreme God behind things, which dominated everything in the world.

When people suffer from natural and man-made disasters repeatedly, they sprout the desire to predict sudden disasters and their behavioral consequences with the help of providence, so as to achieve the purpose of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. In the long-term practice, various prediction methods have been invented to communicate between man and god, and the Zhouyi, which can best reflect the meaning of god, is produced under such conditions.