Is Zhouyi's fortune telling credible? What is the basis?

Zhouyi is a splendid cultural treasure in ancient times, which was used by the ancients to predict the future, make decisions on state affairs, reflect the current situation and measure heaven, earth and personnel. However, this is only a means that the ancients relied on before mastering the scientific method, and it is not a real science. Although some understandings are scientific, it is because they are only scientific and reasonable, but they cannot be said to be scientific. It can only be regarded as a culture.

Zhou in Zheng Xuan's Book of Changes in the Eastern Han Dynasty holds that "Zhou" means "Zhou Pu", that is, everything is ready and capricious. However, in the Book of Changes Justice written by Confucius in the Tang Dynasty, "Zhou" refers to the place name of Qiyang, which is a noun of the Zhou Dynasty.

Interpretation of Yi:

1. Yi's name comes from a lizard, which is a hieroglyph. This statement comes from Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Lizards can change color, commonly known as "chameleon", so the change meaning of "Yi" is the extended meaning of lizards.

2. It must be pointed out that the understanding of "Yi" in the Western Zhou Dynasty should be based on the reform of the ritual and music system in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Etiquette refers to the festival of calm, that is, easy music, which are the means and tools for the ruling class to control the people and maintain the patriarchal clan system. The Book of Changes preserved the framework of the symphony of bells and drums in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the eating and drinking of bells and drums was unimaginable in the bottom society of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

3. the sun and the moon change easily, symbolizing yin and yang.

Sunrise is easy. Chen Guying thinks this meaning is also the original meaning of "dry".

5. Yi is the name of divination.

6. Change means that everything in the world is constantly changing, so Zhouyi is a book that teaches people to face change.

7. Trading, that is, the mutual change between yin eliminating yang and yang eliminating yin. As shown in the general taiji diagram.

8.' Yi' is' Tao', an eternal truth. Even if things change at any time, the eternal Tao will not change. Biography of Cohesion: "Life is easy". Life is endless, just like "the meaning of life lies in creating the life that the universe continues". It is new and new to experience the beauty of life. )

There are also three meanings in the records of Taibu in Zhou Li. Sanyi refers to the divination books of three different dynasties: Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi. It is said that Lianshan is the Oracle of Xia Dynasty, Guizang is the Oracle of Yin Shang Dynasty, and Zhouyi is the Oracle of Zhou Dynasty.

Zheng Xuan's Book of Changes in the Eastern Han Dynasty holds that "Yi Yi has three meanings: Jane Yi Yi also; Change two also; It is not easy to do three. " This sentence summarizes the three meanings of Yi: simplicity, change and constancy. That is to say, the existence of things in the universe is 1) It is natural and shows two properties: easy and simple; 2) Always changing; 3) remain unchanged. As the Book of Songs said, "the moon meets the sun" or "the moon rises at a constant speed", the movement of the sun and the moon shows an artificial nature and is simple. Its position and shape change from time to time and are changeable; However, it is always "not easy" for the East to go out and the West to fall.

I ching refers to classic works. Confucianism regards Zhouyi, Shangshu, Shijing, Book of Rites and Chunqiu as five classics. As mentioned earlier, The Classic was later added as a title in recognition of these books. The Five Classics were originally called Yi, History, Skill, Reason, Spring and Autumn. Some people think that the Book of Changes was popular in the Zhou Dynasty, so it is called the Book of Changes. According to Records of Historical Records, some people think that the Book of Changes was written by Zhou Wenwang. However, in several earlier documents, such as The Analects of Confucius, Zhuangzi and Zuo Zhuan, the Book of Changes was only called Zhouyi, and the name of Zhouyi first appeared in Zhou Li. However, scholars are still controversial about the age of Zhou Li. So as far as literature is concerned, "Zhou" should be added later. If we look at the system, the name of Sanyi has no dynasty name, so Zhou in Zhouyi can be interpreted as Zhou Pu and other two divination books, which are relatively corresponding. However, it is still a question whether there were mountains in Xia Dynasty and whether there were Tibetan exiles in Shang Dynasty. The two books are probably the phenomena mentioned in the theory of the accumulation of ancient history. Therefore, it is certain that the book of changes or the book of changes was originally called the book of changes.

The birthplace of Zhouyi is now tangyin county (a county town in Anyang, Henan), a thousand-year-old county. Woori City is located 2 kilometers north of tangyin county. The most basic element of the Yi Gua system is the concept of Yin and Yang, including the nature and state of Yin and Yang. If we ignore the state of Yin and Yang and only talk about their nature, we can use Yang Yao (-) and Yin Yao (-) to represent Yin and Yang. The above-mentioned Yin and Yang hexagrams are overlapped three times from bottom to top, forming eight basic hexagrams, namely, "Gan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Hui", which are called Eight Classics hexagrams. You can get six hexagrams by overlapping eight classics and hexagrams. * * * * There are sixty-four hexagrams, which are called other sixty-four hexagrams, and each hexagram has a specific name. If we consider the state of Yin and Yang again, the concept of Yin and Yang is further divided into four situations, namely "Old Yin, Lao Yang, Shaoyin and Shaoyang" (also known as "Taiyin, Sun, Shaoyin and Shaoyang"), which are represented by four symbols "X, O,-and-"respectively. Each order of each hexagram may have four states of Yin and Yang, so there are 4096 different hexagrams in all the hexagrams changing systems. If all the hexagrams with the same yin and yang properties are put together, 64 subsystems with the same name of the main hexagrams can be formed, which can be called a hexagram system. The content of the text description in the Book of Changes is the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of some Yi hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams system and the corresponding judgment of personnel quality (called occupation). Among them, the first item of each divination system is the corresponding static divination, and the last six items (there are seven items in Gankun divination system) are the sequential divination of the corresponding divination system. After Qin and Han dynasties, there was a wrong or vague understanding of it.

The books divination and Zhouyi originated from the practice of divination in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Perhaps at the end of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang wrote down the hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams system. Later in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' disciples inherited Confucius' discovery of Zhouyi and wrote Yi Zhuan. When Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, Lisi listed it as a medical divination book and preserved it.

In the simple Tao Te Ching, Zhou is thoughtful and complete, which means that the change of movement has no result. When Tai Hao and Fu created bamboo slips, they arranged the symbols of bamboo slips (that is, the symbols of Yin and Yang in the current gossip) into a circle, that is, a week, which made it clear that the week was the main part of bamboo slips. The Zhou word in Zhouyi is not used in the Zhou Dynasty, but in the Zhou Dynasty or Zhou surname, using the perfect word "Zhou" in the simple Tao Te Ching. There is no doubt that Zhou characters in Zhouyi have replaced simple simplified characters. The change of everything in nature is the fundamental phenomenon of Yi. Endless and fruitless, it shows that Yi is the change of things, and every change of things has a definite result, which is Yi Xiang. Jane's Zhou and Zhou Zhiyi show that Zhou is Jane's and Yi is Zhou's. In the arrangement of father and son, it is: The Book of Changes. It can be seen that "sketch" is a vocal tool for judging and reasoning.