How to learn the Book of Changes

Many people feel numb when they hear the Book of Changes, because they don't understand it at all, not because they don't know words, but because they don't understand what the words in the Book of Changes are saying. In order to understand the text of Yijing, for beginners, learning Yijing can start from the following points.

1, eight basic hexagrams with three hexagrams

The first thing we need to know is the three basic hexagrams: Kan is divorced from the root of truth, also called the Eight Classics hexagrams, and the six basic hexagrams are three hexagrams: Kan is divorced from the root of truth, which are all derived from the two basic hexagrams of Gankun.

Among them, for the first time, I stubbornly turned dry divination into divination; The second change becomes a deviation; The third change became the reversal of divination. The first stubborn change of Kun Gua became an earthquake Gua; The second became divination; The third stubborn change has become divination. The relationship between watching the earthquake and Gankun Gua can be simply demonstrated by the following figure:

2. The images represented by eight basic hexagrams and three hexagrams.

Secondly, after understanding the eight basic hexagrams of Sanyi, we should understand the images of these eight basic hexagrams of Sanyi, and each basic hexagram represents a different image. It should be noted that each of the three basic hexagrams represents a different image. Each of the three basic hexagrams can represent many kinds of images. Shuo Gua Zhuan, one of Yi Zhuan, describes the images represented by the three basic hexagrams. Take the three basic hexagrams of Gan, Kun and Xun as examples:

Take dry divination as an example. The divination is heaven, emotion, monarch, father, jade, gold, cold, ice, red, good horse, old horse, poor horse, refuting horse and fruit. Take Kun Gua as an example. Kun is the earth, mother, cloth, pot, base, flat, cow, earth, culture, people, handle, and the earth is also black. Take hexagrams as an example. They are wood, wind, eldest daughter, straight rope, work, white, long, high, advance and retreat, decline and stink. For people, it is too rare, too broad, too white-eyed, and three times closer to the market, which is called manic divination.

3. Eight basic hexagrams plus three hexagrams are arranged into sixty-four hexagrams.

The sixty-four hexagrams seen in the Book of Changes are all composed of six hexagrams. Sixty-four hexagrams are composed of eight basic hexagrams, three of which are arranged in pairs. The upper three hexagrams are called upper hexagrams, and the lower three hexagrams are called lower hexagrams, which are called lower hexagrams.

4. Examples of hexagrams in the Book of Changes, taking the performance of hexagrams as an example:

Heaven shoes (against the lower part of the stem)-hexagram painting, hexagram name, brackets are the composition of the upper and lower hexagrams.

Follow the tiger's tail, not people. Constant. -Six pointed star

Xun said: tread hard and soft. What you said is to follow the tiger's tail, not to people, Heng. Just in the middle school, it is also bright to ascend to the throne without guilt. -"Biography of Xun"

"Xiang" said: Go to the world to moisten and do it, and a gentleman can distinguish between the upper and lower and set the aspirations of the people. -Biography of the Elephant

Day 9: Simple shoes, no wonder. -words, take the ninth day as an example, and the last five are omitted.

"Elephant" said: "Go where you want to go", read the wish. -"Little Elephant Biography", taking the ninth day as an example, has five chapters in the back.

5. Yi Chuan Shi Yi Gua Jie:

In the original book of changes, there are only hexagrams, hexagrams' names, hexagrams' words and poems. Xun Zhuan, Xiang Zhuan and Xiang Zhuan are biographies written by later generations for the Book of Changes, while Xun Zhuan, Xiang Zhuan and Xiang Zhuan are biographies. The composition of Yi Shi Zhuan Yi includes: Gan Gu Kun and Wen Zhuan, Preface Gua Zhuan, Shuo Gua Zhuan, Miscellaneous Gua Zhuan, Xun Zhuan, Xiang Zhuan, Ci Zhuan and Yi Zhuan.

6. What are the contents of the Book of Changes?

To learn the Book of Changes, we should understand its four components: image, number, ci and karma.

Elephant: that is, hexagrams.

Six hexagrams add up to a portrait. Take the hexagrams as an example. The hexagrams are combined with the hexagrams that are on the top all day and the water is on the bottom. It should be noted that the divinatory symbols of each of the sixty-four hexagrams, like the basic divinatory symbols of the three hexagrams, are not just an image, but also everything.

No: The so-called Plum Blossom Book of Changes, which we are familiar with, was actually created and studied by later generations. The basic number of the Book of Changes can be found in the ninth chapter of the Book of Changes: "Tianyi, Diyi and Tiansan." Five days, five places. Five people are combined, and there are five in twenty days, thirty in the earth and fifty in heaven and earth, which makes them become ghosts and gods. "

Words: words of divination and rhetoric. The function of these words can be roughly summarized by an idiom, which is commonly used by scholars in history: writing carries Tao. In other words, these words carry Yi Li and Yi Dao.

Zhan: That is to say, the Book of Changes has been misunderstood by people. Everyone thinks that it is a part of feudal superstition and is used for divination. In fact, divination is based on the mastery of images, numbers and characters in the Book of Changes, and on the mastery of the Book of Changes and Yi Dao. With the objective laws revealed by the Book of Changes and Yi Dao, people, events and people are deeply affected. The degree of understanding and mastering the objective laws revealed by Li Yi-dao varies from person to person. It is only foreknowledge, not feudal superstition, not cultural dross, just like weather forecast and meteorology. Can you say that he is a feudal superstition?

7. Methods of learning the Book of Changes

The second chapter of Cohesive Biography gives the methods of studying the Book of Changes: those who are prepared for danger in times of peace are gentlemen, and the preface of the Book of Changes is also; Those who have fun have good speeches. Therefore, if a gentleman lives, he will observe his image, play with his words, while if he moves, he will observe his changes and play with his career.