The Book of Changes, originally about divination, why does it also say that food is the most important thing for people?

Innate gossip in the Book of Changes was created by Fuxi, which contains the philosophy of everything in the world. Dry is heaven, representing heaven and nature, while eating is with your mouth, mouth on your head, and dry on your head. Therefore, food is the most important thing for the people.

The Book of Changes is not only an ancient divination book (that is, what we call divination today, predicting and judging future events), but also a philosophical work to observe astronomy, investigate geography, explore the universe and life, and study human behavior. It is a combination of natural philosophy and humanistic practice, and ancient emperors, politicians, strategists and businessmen should learn the Book of Changes.

The Book of Changes is said to have been written by Zhou people, including classics and biographies. Classics mainly talk about divination and knowledge of nature, geography, universe and behavior, and biographies are the annotations of classics. According to Records of the Historian, Confucius attached great importance to the Book of Changes. In his later years, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xin, a great scholar, integrated the whole system of Confucian classics with the Book of Changes and became the highest classic of China culture. At the same time spread to western countries and European and American countries.

It is not surprising that the study of nature, the development of philosophy and the infiltration of Confucianism in the Book of Changes also say that "food is the most important thing for the people". There are many studies on diet in The Analects of Confucius, which are very in-depth. China's food culture has always practiced Confucianism, and food is the first necessity for survival. The quality of food determines whether it is strong and healthy. If the country is rich and the people are strong, it must be strong first, and food must be the sky.