Who is the hero of Bian Wei's Three Musts? Baidu knows.

Books in the Spring and Autumn Period were mainly made of bamboo. Bamboo is broken into bamboo sticks, called bamboo slips, then dried with fire and written on them.

Bamboo slips have a certain length and width, and a bamboo slip can only write one line, ranging from dozens to eight or nine. A book needs a lot of bamboo slips, which must be woven together with strong ropes and the like to read.

Books like Yi, of course, are made of many bamboo slips, so they have considerable weight. Kong Qiu spent a lot of energy reading the Book of Changes and basically understood its contents. I quickly read it for the second time and grasped its basic points. Then, he read it for the third time and had a thorough understanding of its spiritual essence.

Later, in order to study the book deeply and explain it to his disciples, he read it many times. In this way, the cowhide belt of serial bamboo slips has been worn off several times, and it needs to be replaced with new ones to be reused many times.

Even after reading this, Confucius was very modest. He said: "If I live a few more years, I can fully master the text and quality of Yi."

Extended data

There are six appendices in Zhouyi, a silk book unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb, which are two or three characters, cohesion, Yizhiyi, Yao Yao, Miuhe and Zhao Li.

According to Liao Mingchun's textual research, these works should be in the middle and late Warring States period, not later than Lu Chunqiu and Han Feizi. The question of two or three sons records the dialogue between Confucius and Zigong and other disciples about Zhouyi. From the above information, we can see that Confucius really liked reading Zhouyi in his later years, but he studied Zhouyi seriously, so that Wei compiled three unique works. I also taught students Zhouyi.

Traditionally, Confucius wrote ten wings. Later generations studied the Ten Wings and found that it was inconsistent with the traditional view. For example, in Ten Wings, there is often a book about Confucius, which was written by Confucius himself, so it is impossible to write Confucius.