What good books are there to introduce the Book of Changes?

Huang Shouqi's teacher was a master of Yi studies in the Republic of China, and Shang was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. His book A Study of Shang Family in Zhouyi is comparable to Cheng Yi's Biography of Cheng Family in Zhouyi and Zhu's Original Meaning of Zhouyi. Huang Shouqi and his teachers have a characteristic, that is, they only do one thing all their lives, and their main energy is in this field all their lives. Therefore, their research on the Book of Changes is extremely profound and pure.

2. Miscellaneous Notes of the Book of Changes

This Book of Changes Miscellaneous Notes is also sorted out from his lecture notes. It is colloquial, extensive and profound, and it combines Yin and Yang, five elements, eight diagrams, river maps, Luo Shu, dry branches, geomantic omen, numerology and other related knowledge, trying to explain the "scientific" nature of these thoughts.

3. Simple classics

Starting with Xiang Zhuan, this paper tries to understand hexagrams and further interpret their daily necessities in a literal sense. Wang Fuzhi once said, "Elephants and saints are easy to learn." Xiang Zhuan carries the meaning of the Book of Changes, from which "Heaven is healthy, gentlemen strive for self-improvement" and "The terrain is rich, and gentlemen carry things with morality" are derived.

4. Tian Xingjian: A New Textual Research on the Book of Changes

The feature of this book is that it combines exegetics, archaeology and history to study the Book of Changes, which is very distinctive. Because sometimes it is not enough to understand the connotation of the Book of Changes only from the text, but also to analyze the archaeological discoveries and historical events in China at that time, so as to truly understand what the text of the Book of Changes is talking about.

5. Spiraea yuanhai

Dasheng Xu in Song Dynasty was compiled according to Xu Ziping's achievements in the East China Sea. It is the work of the founder of the eight-character numerology, and it is also a classic masterpiece that must be learned in eight-character fortune telling. This book is the first book to divide the fate level into three, six and nine levels according to the pattern of financial officials and food injury. When it comes to famous teachers and sages of past dynasties, it should be Master Guiguzi's "Yin Na" method that determines life and death, while Master Xu Ziping's "Purple Cai Ping Guan" method should be the first to discuss wealth and poverty.