Who wrote the Book of Changes?

The Times, Authors and Contents of the Book of Changes.

Times-Late Shang Dynasty and Early Zhou Dynasty

Author-compiled by the stream of witchcraft

Content-

Decide good or bad and ask for forgiveness.

It contains simple dialectical thought. It is a concentrated record of China's ancient philosophy.

Mainly combined with gossip to explain the changes and development of various things.

Gossip content: Gossip represents heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountains and mountains respectively.

According to "Ci" ("Too easy to have", which means two instruments are born, two instruments are born with four images, and four images are born with eight diagrams), Tai Chi is the beginning of the world's total process. Heaven and earth are born from Taiji. When there is heaven and earth, there are four seasons. When it runs to four o'clock, it becomes a thunder and feng shui volcano, and the thunder and feng shui volcano evolves into everything. This explains the whole process of the creation of the world. This is how the Book of Changes explains the changing principle of everything in the universe with gossip.

The main content is to clarify that there are certain laws (simplification) between universes, but everything is constantly changing and developing (simplification); There are also some fixed things (not easy). The ever-changing universe is dominated by a simple law, and there are certain laws to be found (easy to simplify); All systems, rituals, cultural relics and artifacts in society will change (change) with time; The order of precedence among monarch, father and son, brother, couple and friends will never change (not easy)]

Reflecting the ancient humanistic thought, cultural relic system and social outlook is helpful for us to understand the growth process of China's cultural thought.

6. Social patterns and writing skills reflected in the Book of Changes.

Completion of the patrilineal family system

Sentences such as "I want women to be blessed", "I have a son" and "I have a son",

The phenomenon that men marry wives and concubines and women marry men has become very common in society.

A social system centered on men. Men can take concubines, inherit property and enjoy full sovereignty in society. Patriarchal family system was officially completed.

Integrity of national organization

Names of emperors, monarchs, kings, dukes, vassals and warriors.

"The king has an order, and the founding of the country is a family."

We can see the progress of political organization that day.

The emergence of ancestor worship

Seeing traces of religious evolution,

"Blessed, there is no harm in good luck" and "The king has a temple on holiday".

It shows the worship of the Emperor of Heaven and ancestors, and makes progress in religious thoughts and rituals.

Agriculture, industry and commerce are more developed than before. (trolleys, exquisite hunting equipment, wine vessels, sacrificial vessels, merchants, buying and selling)

Word skills-

Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it has also made remarkable progress. Language forms have also made great achievements, such as "Clouds without rain, from the western suburbs"-the words are quite concise. "Riding on a horse, weeping like blood"-the syllable is sonorous, vivid, poetic and has certain artistic characteristics.