What's the use of Zhouyi, fortune telling or knowing destiny?

The Book of Changes includes two parts: classics and biographies. Explain the meaning of superficial words first. The so-called week refers to Zhou Pu and everything in the universe, which is vast, all-encompassing and endless. By easy, I mean easy to change. Generally speaking, Zhouyi is to describe the changing law of everything.

The Book of Changes was born and got up early. It is a divination book, which provides people with a guide to action. In China's early society, due to low productivity and backward science, our ancestors could not give scientific explanations to natural and social phenomena. When they encounter unexpected natural and man-made disasters, they germinate the need to predict the consequences of disasters or act by themselves with the help of providence, so as to achieve the purpose of benefiting and avoiding disadvantages. Based on this, various forecasting methods have been invented in long-term practice, among which Zhouyi, which can best reflect the meaning of God, was produced under this condition, just to meet the needs of people's production and life forecasting, so its early use was fortune telling.

In the Han Dynasty, the nature of Zhouyi changed, and it was fully developed while retaining its original divination nature. Yi-ology scholars overcame the limitations of Dayan method and created a relatively complete new divination method. Jiao Yanshou created Jiao's divination method, and his disciples were even better. He completely changed the divination method and created the Najia method, so the divination method became more and more complete in the Han Dynasty.

On the other hand, Zhouyi also has new functions, because it contains profound philosophy of life, especially after the interpretation and development of Yi Zhuan, its philosophical level has reached a new height, and Zhouyi has become a profound philosophical classic. It is for this reason that the Book of Changes was favored by the rulers of the Han Dynasty. From the original book of divination, it has become an official philosophical book of governing the country and cultivating oneself. Known as the head of the Five Classics and the source of the Tao. The thought of Zhouyi penetrated into all fields of social life at that time and became the theoretical basis for rulers to govern the country. Since then, Zhouyi has contained duality. On the one hand, under the seal of the rulers of past dynasties, its theoretical guiding role is increasingly exposed and distinct; On the other hand, folk magicians constantly update and improve the divination system, so far the duality of Zhouyi is still very obvious.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Zhouyi has evolved into a philosophical classic of Anbang's governance and self-cultivation. It means he knows his destiny. The so-called knowing destiny is a metaphysical philosophy with people as the core.