Philosophical thoughts contained in the Book of Changes

The basic content of the philosophical thought in Zhouyi can be divided into two aspects: the concept of empathy for all things and the concept of extremes meet.

1, in the sixty-four hexagrams of Zhouyi, heaven and earth are physical objects, with heaven above and earth below. The ancients believed that heaven and earth were the mother of all things, and Gangua represented heaven and Kungua represented earth. Heaven and earth gave birth to six sons, Xun, Zhen, Hui, Li, Kan and Gen.

2. There are some so-called "auspicious" hexagrams in the Book of Changes, which are generally the combination of the upper and lower hexagrams; The so-called "fierce" hexagrams or fierce hexagrams are generally not sympathetic to each other.

3. The Book of Changes is superstitious in itself, but its interpretation of good and bad luck includes the most primitive philosophical understanding of general things in the world at that time.

4. The Book of Changes observes the dynamic and static changes of everything from the perspective of sympathy, and thinks that any divination with moving and sympathetic images is auspicious and promising, because it conforms to the law of the development of things.