The Main Philosophical Thoughts of Zhouyi

The Book of Changes, as an ancient classic, seems to be a book of divination. However, it contains all the thoughts and principles of China's traditional moral philosophy from the aspects of hexagram sequence, hexagram name, hexagram image, hexagram word, hexagram sequence, hexagram word and its deduction process.

1. The Book of Changes contains the world view that "Tao is extraordinary, whether it is born or not".

"Tao is extraordinary, whether there is mutual existence or not" is a profound revelation of China's moral philosophy to nature and a high generalization of the laws of nature. It not only contains the materialism, development and connection of modern western philosophy, but also creates the concepts of beginning and end that western philosophy has never paid attention to.

In its own unique way, the Book of Changes infiltrated these laws of development and change in nature into its own theoretical system of prediction, and placed its theoretical system under the guidance of a correct and scientific view of the universe, which laid a solid foundation for the scientificity and accuracy of its prediction.

Tracing back to the philosophical principles contained in the Book of Changes will help us understand the Book of Changes and accurately predict what will happen. It also helps us to expose the mystery of the Book of Changes and correct the incomplete and objective understanding of idealism.

The Book of Changes demonstrates through the names of hexagrams and epigrams, discusses the development and changes of things through the words of hexagrams and epigrams, and guides people out of the predicament through judgment. The sequence of hexagrams, the sequence of hexagrams, the name of hexagrams, the name of hexagrams, the change of hexagrams and the change of hexagrams contain philosophical principles.

(1) The concept of beginning and end contained in the Book of Changes is a great contribution of China's moral philosophy to philosophical principles, and its profundity, influence breadth and opposition are regular.

It doesn't matter where everything in nature comes from. The important thing is that everything will die unconditionally after it is produced. Western philosophy pays attention to the process from birth to death, not to the process from death to life.

Therefore, there is no concept of beginning and end. The concept of beginning and end in the Book of Changes is embodied in the following three aspects:

The first is to use the arrangement of hexagrams to embody the concepts of ending and beginning.

The second is to use the combination of hexagrams to embody the concept of end. Sixty-four hexagrams, even in pairs, form 32 complete ending cycles.

The third is to embody the concept of beginning and end with change.

Compared with the concept of development, the concept of beginning is above it, beginning is the end of development, and development is development under the general principle of beginning.

(2) The Book of Changes contains materialism.

The world is material, which is the most basic view of western philosophical materialism. China's moral philosophy holds that the world is made up of Tao, which is homogeneous but has different names. The method of embodying this view in the Book of Changes is unique, practical, comprehensive and profound.

The sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes are composed of eight single hexagrams, all named after eight substances or material phenomena in nature.

Dry represents the sky, Kun represents the earth, earthquake represents the thunder, Xun represents the wind, far represents the sun and fire, the ridge represents the moon and water, the root represents the mountain, and the sink represents the ze. The other 56 hexagrams have their own names. Although the meaning of their names can't fully express specific substances, the content they represent can't be separated from material phenomena.

In addition, China's characters belong to hieroglyphics, and each character is composed of strokes or radicals representing different substances, so each hexagram is branded with substances. If there is a dry sky, Kun has soil, solution has a knife, and there is wood, etc., the sixty-four hexagrams are all based on materialism.

Materialism is not only reflected in the names of hexagrams, but also in poetry. One of the sixty-four hexagrams is randomly selected, and its six words are analyzed, and there are also substances in it.

If the divination is negative, the sixth day: plucking the hair for it. Hands and grass. 62: Yes, there are materials such as cloth for wrapping. Sixty-three: protect shame, same as above.

94. There is no blame for life, and there are creatures in it. No, there are people and trees in it. Shangjiu: No, there are people and furniture (shells) in it.

Some people suspect that writing itself is synonymous with matter and its phenomena, so what is the value of this analysis? In fact, this just shows that the Book of Changes is based on matter and materialism.

(C) I Ching contains the concept of development.

The world is material, material is developing and changing, and development and change follow the development concept of "Tao is extraordinary". The Book of Changes most vividly reflects the development and changes of matter.