The first wonderful book containing the roots of Chinese civilization, can no one decipher it for thousands of years?

China has a long history of 5,000 years of civilization. In this long river of history, the ancients were full of curiosity to explore the unknown, among which divination techniques such as Taiyi divination, plum blossom changing, and strange robbery to avoid armor were born. The homology of all these wonderful forecasting techniques is the Book of Changes, which has a unique position in China, ranging from wealthy businessmen and officials to small traders.

Although the Book of Changes has only sixty-four hexagrams, it is miscellaneous and complete. It is mentioned in Ji Xiaolan's Summary of Sikuquanshu that The Book of Changes includes astronomy, geography, calendar, art of war and arithmetic. , can be explained by the book of changes. So how did the Book of Changes come about? It is necessary for us to discuss its origin and development.

The legend of the Book of Changes is very complicated and long. In this process, people have different views, and they can't agree. The most common view is that the Book of Changes originated from Hutuluo. It is said that five thousand years ago in Fuxi era, a white horse jumped out of the Yellow River, and the mane on its back made up a group of wonderful numbers. Fuxi realized the secrets in pictures and gossip. In today's Jin Meng,

When Dayu was harnessing water, he found a white turtle with a string of strange numbers engraved on its back, which made up a picture. Dayu revealed Hong Fan's nine realms, including five elements. Because the white turtle comes from Luoshui, this book is called Luoshu. Later, based on these two phenomena and the gossip founded by Fuxi, Dayu founded Lianshanyi, which belonged to Xia Dynasty.

According to the characteristics of Shang Dynasty, Cheng Tang founded the Book of Changes in the Shang Dynasty. At the end of Shang Dynasty and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang was imprisoned in Youli Prison by Shang Zhouwang, and Zhou Wenwang worked out Zhouyi, which was in line with the development of Zhou Dynasty. Now even the mountains and Tibet have been lost, and only the Book of Changes has been handed down from generation to generation.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Book of Changes was difficult to understand, so Confucius wrote the Book of Changes to interpret its profound meaning. It consists of two parts: scripture and biography, and contains rich contents such as astronomy, geography, military affairs, science, literature and agriculture. For thousands of years, it has had an important influence on China's economy, society and culture. It is the first book of poetry, ceremony and music in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Users of Yijing often take Yin and Yang as basic symbols, and combine any two hexagrams in the eight diagrams to form 64 basic hexagrams. Finally, they explain the basic information of everything in the universe, even the changing law of heaven and human nature, and predict the development direction of everything by analyzing the scriptures of the Book of Changes.

There are many stories about the Book of Changes among the people, many of which are fabricated. Interested friends can go and have a look. Compared with those absurd stories, the Confucian interpretation of the Book of Changes may be more thorough and rational. Confucianism respects it as the first of the Six Classics, not because it has the function of fortune telling, but because it is a book of philosophy. Confucius once expounded the Book of Changes: Add me a few years old and I can learn it easily at the age of 50. It's no big deal. ? Let me live a few more years. If I learn Zhouyi at the age of 50, I can make no big mistakes. ? Why can't there be something greater than the Book of Changes? In fact, The Book of Changes is not only a book of divination, but also a book of philosophy. It is the knowledge formed by ancient ancestors' understanding of nature and explains the changing law of everything in the world. If we can treat people according to the laws of the world, there will naturally be no big mistakes.