What sect is the Book of Changes?

The Book of Changes is a classic of Confucianism and Taoism.

The broad sense of Yi, including Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi, has been lost. The author is difficult to verify. Some scholars believe that it is a long-term summary of simple dialectics by the last three generations, even in East Asia, and some scholars believe that it was written by Taoism in the Zhou Dynasty.

The Book of Changes consists of Lianshan Yi, Guizang Yi and Zhouyi. The first two have been lost, and the remaining Book of Changes, which is the Book of Changes, is a huge system based on the sixty-four hexagrams and constantly accumulated and enriched.

There are no three schools that have been engaged in the study of the Book of Changes.

The first school is called academic school.

Also known as Yi School, mainly represented by Confucius. Zhou Wenwang wrote the hexagrams in the Book of Changes, which Confucius read, and then he wrote the Book of Changes, which led the Book of Changes to the field of philosophy. Later, many university experts appeared, all of whom were easy to reason from the perspective of theory and philosophy, and all of them were nobles and received royal salaries, equivalent to academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Some official positions are higher, and those who directly serve the emperor are tall.

The second school is called the practical school.

Accurately speaking, it is also called divination school, which means Jianghu school. This school, which has not read any books, mainly comes from the people, mainly from the grassroots civilian class, and hangs out in the rivers and lakes. Of course, there are also some knowledgeable and influential representatives in the divination field, such as Shao Kangjie and Shao Yong, who invented the six-hexagram palace que and the plum blossom easy number.

But the divination school is obviously different from the Yi school. They only study how to predict things with divination. In their eyes, hexagrams are tools, and tools are used. Just like a kitchen knife in a chef's hand, it can be used to the point of being superb, but even a good chef may not be able to tell what profound philosophical thoughts this kitchen knife has.