Is Zhouyi Confucian or Taoist?

The Book of Changes is both Taoism and Confucianism.

The Book of Changes is an important Taoist classic, bearing the historical mission and task. It is said that it was written by Zhou people, including the Book of Changes and Biography. Classics are mainly composed of 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams, each of which has its own interpretation (hexagrams) for divination.

Zhouyi is the first of the Five Classics, and Zhouyi culture is the development of China culture. China architecture, music, medicine, chronology, etc. Are inextricably linked with Zhouyi. Confucius read the Book of Changes, Wei compiled three verses, and even The Analects quoted the words of Zhouyi in many places.

General comments

Zhouyi is the essence of China's primitive traditional culture and the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and culture. Known as the head of Confucian classics, the source of Taoism and the source of Chinese civilization, it is an outstanding philosophical masterpiece of China in ancient times. After more than 7,000 years of history, it has laid an important value orientation of Chinese culture and created the characteristics of oriental culture, which has irreplaceable important value and great influence on Chinese culture.

The ideological wisdom of the Book of Changes has penetrated into all aspects of people's lives in China, and its content is extremely rich, which has had a far-reaching impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years. Whether it is the way of Confucius and Mencius or the theory of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Huangdi's Neijing and Shenlong Yijing, they are all closely related to Yijing.