Analysis of Yuan Henry Zhen

Yuan Henry Zhen is the four virtues of divination. It is generally believed that the words of dry divination can be found in the Book of Changes, and the original text is "dry, Yuan Henry Zhen." In fact, in the full text of the Book of Changes, this four-character combination has appeared quite many times. "Yuan Henry's chastity" is often interpreted as: "Yuan, beginning also; Constant, pass also; Li Heye; Zhen, Zheng Ye. The virtue of this divination has the nature of pure yang. Everything in nature can generate yang, and the initial prosperity can make the physical properties harmonious, each with its own strengths, and it can also make things firm and positive. "

Since the Book of Changes, the ancients have interpreted these four words, most of which are one word and one meaning. They think that they represent the four basic attributes of divination, which often extend to the four seasons, four virtues and so on. Such as "yuan", for the big, for the beginning, for the good, for the spring; "Heng" means communication, which means Jiahui, and it is summer. "Profit" is beauty, which means harmony between benevolence and righteousness. Autumn is a "festival", which means being an official, and winter is.

Chinese name

Yuan heng Li Zhen

spell

Lady Yang

source

I Ching

meaning

Refers to the four virtues of "initial long set" [1]?

quick

navigate by water/air

Statement interpretation

The source of the sentence

Yuan Henry Zhen, in Zhouyi Gan and Zhouyi Gan Xun, said: "Great efforts are made, and everything is expected, so the sky is unified. Clouds and rain, goods and logistics ... The road has changed, and each is a life, which is beneficial to protect Taihe. " Zhou Wen, a classical Chinese writer, said, "Whoever is Yuan is fine, and whoever is Heng is fine." Those who benefit are also the sum of righteousness. Chastity, it's done. A gentleman's body is enough to follow others, good deeds are enough to be polite, good deeds are enough to be harmonious and righteous, and hard work is enough. The man with these four virtues is called Gan Yuan Henry Zhen. ",and said:" The Yuan Dynasty strivers were also those who started from scratch. Chastity, temperament also. In the beginning, we can use beauty to benefit the world. "Kong Shu": "Yuan, the beginning also; Constant, pass also; Li Heye; Zhen, Zheng Ye. The virtue of this divination has the nature of pure yang. Everything in nature can generate yang, and the initial prosperity can make the physical properties harmonious, each with its own strengths, and it can also make things firm and positive. " (Book of Changes Justice Volume II)

There is a close relationship with Li, with great training elements, while Heng enjoys sacrifice, while Li benefits or benefits, while Zhen is a question of asking or divining. Together, they said, "When the ancients held sacrifices, if they got this divination and asked about it, they could hold big sacrifices. (Book of Changes Biography, Volume I) In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhou Dunyi took Yuan Henry's chastity as his son, called Yuan, Shi and Chun, and played the so-called "Tian Xingjian" explanation in the Book of Changes. It is said that everything is born, and it has its original order. Develop and grow. Constant, children are also inferior to summer. The peace of summer contains its beauty. Benefit, righteousness, also, timely and autumn. Autumn is conducive to achievement; Zhen and Zheng are the same in time. Winter is the end of everything, and this is the right thing to do. " In addition, some people assigned Yuan Henry to the ordinal numbers of Sifang (Han) and "1234" (modern Shang). In Song Dynasty, Li Gou thought that Yuan, Heng, Li and Truth were related to Qi, Form, Fate and Nature respectively. "Yuan to the beginning, constant to understand things, benefit to appropriate things, zhen to director-general, beginning with its gas, through its shape, pleasant life, dry human nature. (The fifth part of the Preface to Deleting Yi Tu)

Statement interpretation

Basic word meaning

The hexagrams in China's Zhouyi. In Xu Shen's Shuowen, chastity is taught as "divination". Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word "truth" also means divination. People close to you think that "Yuan Heng" means "tycoon". The ancients held a ceremony for the tycoon, and got this divination, which was later recorded in the divination language to show good luck. In the Book of Changes, "Yuan Heng and Li Zhen" is a kind of divination, which has no philosophical significance. "Yuan Henry's chastity" is often interpreted as: "Yuan, beginning also; Constant, pass also; Li Heye; Zhen, Zheng Ye. The virtue of this divination has the nature of pure yang. Everything in nature can generate yang, and the initial prosperity can make the physical properties harmonious, each with its own strengths, and it can also make things firm and positive. "

Nine years after the publication of Zuo Zhuan, Mu Jiang interprets divination, reading "Yuan, Heng, Reason and Truth", taking Yuan as benevolence, Heng as courtesy, Reason as righteousness and Truth as righteousness, which are collectively called "four virtues" and endow moral norms with meaning. In the Tang Dynasty, Kong Ying Da quoted the legend of Xia Zi in the Book of Changes Justice: "Yuan, the beginning is also; Constant, pass also; Li Heye; Hey, Zheng Ye. " It is believed that the "four virtues" of divination mean that everything is born of yang, and everything goes smoothly, which can make everything harmonious and stable.

According to Confucius, Song interpreted these four words as "the beginning of all things in the Yuan Dynasty, the constant growth of all things, the benefit of all things, and the vibration of all things." Four virtues of the growth of all things based on Yuan Henry's chastity. Zhu interprets these four virtues as the "reason" of Yuan Henry's chastity, which is manifested in the four stages of everything from growth to maturity. "Everything is born as Yuan, and growth is constant, not all for profit, and maturity is chastity." The four stages go round and round, called "from beginning to end", which has become a term used by philosophers to express the development stages of things from beginning to end. [2]

Detailed explanation

The term "Henrytown, Gan Yuan" was originally interpreted separately. Gan Yuan was originally used as a tool to express people's observation of the shadow of the sun, and here it is used as the name of the six-pointed star. Yuan Henry Zhen was described as "big", "smooth" and "upright" respectively, and was associated by many people, indicating good luck and good luck. In fact, these four words contain important ideological connotations. According to Li Ding-zuo's Collection of Zhouyi, "Words are pure yang, so you can be the first to give birth to common things ..... that is, to practice four virtues by the way of a gentleman." The four virtues here refer to "Yuan Henry Zhen".

Yuan heng Li Zhen

The first of the sixty-four hexagrams: dry hexagrams: Yuan Henry said to the truth: Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement.

Yuan Henry's "Yuan" and "Gan" are the beginning and motive force of creating all things, and "Yuan" is the source of all things and the first. In order to make his goal (Yuan) accessible and smooth (Heng), Yuan Henry's "Heng" needs "Yun Xing", "Enough to receive gifts" and "Jia", that is, according to certain etiquette, under the condition that the company conforms to the management system and rules of the enterprise, Yin and Yang blend together, communicate with customers from top to bottom, have sex and integrate resources, so as to achieve the goal.

The greatest advantages of Yuan Henry's chastity are "all righteous students" and "protecting harmony" (both spirit and material can be satisfied on demand, and they can be moralized at different times and places to maintain a high degree of harmony, that is, the harmony between man and himself, others, society and nature), and "those who benefit, the harmony of righteousness" (in the face of interests, we should consider.

The "chastity" of Yuan Henry: integrity, firmness and honesty. It is easy to be a Yuan Henry for a while, but difficult to be a Yuan Henry for a long time. "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement". Only by perseverance, firm belief, honesty and trustworthiness can the project be completed from beginning to end and "enough to do things" (employees and managers must be honest and persistent)

Yijing four virtues

Yuan, Heng, Li and Zhen are the four virtues in the Book of Changes, which are taken from the growth process of natural plants.

Yuan: It symbolizes the beginning of a thing, corresponding to spring, the germination of plants.

H: It symbolizes the growth of a thing and corresponds to the growth of plants in summer.

Benefits: It symbolizes the harvest of a thing, corresponding to the flowering and fruiting of plants in autumn.

Chastity: a symbol of a collection, corresponding to winter, and the fallen leaves of plants are winter.

New explanation of words

"Gan Gua" said: "Gan. Yuan Henry Zhen. "

There are many differences in the interpretation of these four words in the old notes, and the "four virtues" in Xia Zi Zhuan are more common: "Yuan, the beginning is also; Constant, pass also; Li Heye; Hey, Zheng Ye. " Song's "Cheng Family Biography" Volume 1: "Yuan Henry's chastity is called the four virtues. Yuan, the beginning of everything; Constant, the length of everything; Beneficiary, everything is successful; Chastity is the achievement of all things. " What I am talking about here is the whole process of natural creation. At the same time, this process is also a repeated movement, so it can be explained as spring, summer, autumn and winter. Yuan is equivalent to the occurrence of everything in spring, constant is equivalent to the long-term cultivation of everything in summer, and Li is equivalent to the maturity of everything in autumn, which is really equivalent to the collection of everything in winter. The mechanism to control this movement process is the harmonious unity of Yin and Yang.

Yuan heng Li Zhen

"On Cohesion" said: "From the beginning, you can achieve something." The so-called "Yuan Henry Zhen" is nothing more than a compliment to the role of Gan and Kun in creating everything. The combination of dry and Kun, heaven and earth traffic, this is Yuan Heng; Yin and Yang correspond, coordinate and live in harmony, which is the interest. Interest is the basic starting point of Yuan Heng, and its scale is human needs. Heaven and earth creatures benefit people, that is, the "benefit" of Gankun's two hexagrams lies. Chastity means that things get positive definite.

"Yi Chuan Classical Chinese" says: "Yuan Zhe is good; Balance, the home will also; Those who benefit, the sum of righteousness; Chastity, it's done. A gentleman's benevolence is enough to grow people, a good society is enough to be polite, a good deed is enough to be harmonious and righteous, and hard work is enough. " Westerners say Zhouyi is algebra. "Yuan Henry Zhen" can be regarded as a formula, which can be replaced by spring, summer, autumn and winter, and can also be replaced by benevolence, courtesy and righteousness. The interpretation of classical Chinese is to attach morality to human relations, which is somewhat out of shape compared with the original meaning, but it opened the precedent of Confucianism to explain Yi after the Han Dynasty, and Yuan Hengzhen was given the meaning of moral norms. We can say that although the theory of "four virtues" is not the basic principle of the Book of Changes, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for many years and has effectively promoted the promotion of the meaning of the Book of Changes.

Classical Chinese is an interpretation of the two hexagrams of Gan Kun, which runs through the idea of interpreting hexagrams with morality. Xun said, "If you achieve great things, everything starts, and it is also the unification of heaven." It can be seen that "Yuan" is the beginning of all things, which constitutes the righteousness of "sex"; Benevolence is the core of all kinds of human virtues, and it is also the general principle that dominates all kinds of human virtues, so there will be such a saying: "The yuan, the good is also long." "constant", pass also; "Home" means beauty. Kong Ying Da's explanation of "the meeting of goodness is also the meeting of goodness" is: "It is said that heaven can make everything smooth and beautiful, so the meeting of clouds and goodness is also". Everything in the world can only prosper under the condition of sympathy. Only through communication between people can we achieve a beautiful encounter and act in unison. "Benefit", the sum of righteousness is benefit. "Righteousness and propriety" (golden mean); "Righteousness is true" (Mozi Tian Xia Zhi); "Righteousness is the right way to be human" (Mencius Li Lou). The so-called "righteousness" means that human behavior should conform to the principle of benevolence, etiquette, morality and law. In other words, all interests that conform to the principles of benevolence and righteousness and etiquette are real "interests". It can be seen that when Confucianism talked about the issue of justice and benefit, the word "righteousness" itself contained legitimate and appropriate interest factors, and reasonable interest was justice, while public interest and public welfare were more important. The same is true of "truth". "Dry", the body of the tree, the trunk. Pureness and persistence are the backbone of doing things. "Chastity" is a virtue, and only "chastity" can establish prestige, win the support and support of the people and be in an invincible position.

"A gentleman's benevolence is enough to grow a man, good gifts are enough to be polite, good deeds are enough to be harmonious, and chastity is enough to be practical", which describes four characteristics of a gentleman and can be used to demand leaders. "Benevolence" is the virtue of practicing and fulfilling kindness. "Long" means leading, managing, directing and ruling, and can also be understood as letting others grow. In other words, as long as an entrepreneur or manager practices the virtue of kindness, he has enough conditions to lead or manage.

"Family benefits are enough to welcome the ceremony". Only by combining good factors can we conform to etiquette and form a good order. This requires communication from top to bottom, from left to right, from inside to outside, coordinating different opinions and different information, finding out the intermediary point between them, gaining * * * knowledge and reaching action. Xunzi said: "Harmony is one, one is stronger, and many are stronger" (Xunzi Wang Zhi). For leaders, the value and significance of "sympathetic prosperity" emphasized in Zhouyi cannot be overstated.

"Good things are meaningful enough." Zhu's The Original Meaning of the Book of Changes says: "Those who benefit, the success of biology. Everything is suitable and does not interfere with each other, so it is autumn, righteousness lies in people, and the sum of its points is also. " In other words, the long-term practical benefits come from people's consideration of appropriateness.

"I am practical and can do things." Zhu's Book of Changes says: "A down-to-earth person knows what is right and sticks to it." The virtue of a gentleman, sticking to the right path, is enough to do things well. The Book of Changes attaches great importance to "chastity": "Who knows that he is just a saint without losing his festival?" Knowing what is right and keeping it right is almost as noble as a saint.

Benevolence, courtesy and righteousness mentioned above are called "four virtues" If a gentleman practices these four virtues, he can do great things and achieve great things. Later, Confucianism developed further, turning righteousness into wisdom, and together with a letter, it became the familiar "five virtues"-benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom.

A better explanation

According to the interpretation of classical Chinese, these hexagrams are considered as "Yuan, Heng, Li and Zhen", but the original text is "Yuan Heng, Li and Zhen". It can be seen that the interpretation of classical Chinese is still suspicious, and we can't believe it all. According to the original sentence, "Yuan" is great, "Heng" is smooth and accessible, "Reason" is auspicious, and "Truth" is divination, that is, the original meaning is auspicious and auspicious, which conforms to the original intention of Zhouyi and is very appropriate.