Historical background of Zhouyi's name.
The Book of Changes is the classic box of the Zhou Dynasty in China. It is regarded as "the head of the group classics and the source of hundred schools of thought". Western civilization has the Bible, while eastern civilization has the Book of Changes. Zhouyi culture is the root and source of the development of Chinese culture, which has a great and far-reaching influence on China's politics, economy, culture and many other aspects. China's architecture, medicine, music, painting and daily life are all inextricably linked with Zhouyi, which still affects the national character and spirit of China people. Confucius read the Book of Changes and Wei compiled three marvels. Even the Analects of Confucius quoted many words from the Book of Changes.
The Book of Changes is an ancient classic, and it is a knowledge about human thoughts and the essential laws of the universe. After its principles are correctly understood, it will have a great impact on the development of the future world.
Zhou Wenwang Ji Chang, the author of Zhouyi, was Xibo in Shang Zhou's time. He was founded under Qishan, and he was a benevolent and prosperous politician. He was imprisoned in Zhou Wang because he worshipped Hou Hu and was later released. Benefiting from benevolent governance, the governors of the world are mostly obedient. After Zhou Wuwang has the world, he was honored as Zhou Wenwang, the leader of the governors at the end of Shang Dynasty, known as the Northwest Hou in history, and was named as Zhou Wenwang. Following Hou Ji's and Gong Liu's career, our ancestors, Gu Gong and his father, adopted the method of calendar, and advocated the social atmosphere of caring for the elderly, showing little kindness and honoring the virtuous, so as to develop the social economy of their territory. With his son Ji Fa, he hired Jiang Shang as a military adviser in Diaoyutai, Panxi, Baoji, and led an army to attack the Shang Dynasty from Qishan. He was the pioneer of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Invented the Eight Diagrams of King Wen, which spread all over the world. Historical Records recorded that "King Wen was detained and played Zhouyi", and he wrote Zhouyi in prison during his imprisonment by King Shang, and he was in office for 5 years.
Records of the Historian recorded that "the king of literature acted as the Zhouyi", so the ancients mostly agreed that Zhouyi was written by Zhou Wenwang according to Sima Qian's theory, but today people have different views. Because the book was written very early, with the evolution of the times, the meaning of the text was not understood by the world, and the content of Yi was not easy to read in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, the ancients specially wrote the Book of Changes to interpret the Book of Changes. The "Book of Changes" we are talking about today usually refers to the combination of the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes.
The Book of Changes is one of the important Confucian classics, the oldest, most authoritative and most famous one in China, and the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. It is also called the Book of Changes for short, and includes two parts: the classics and the biography. The scripture of Zhouyi is a divination book, and its text part is an explanation of the symbolic meaning of the corresponding Yi hexagrams and a judgment of the good and ill luck of personnel, while the biography part is an understanding of Yi and the exertion of the words of Zhouyi.
The most basic element of the Yi Gua system is the concept of Yin and Yang, which includes the nature and state of Yin and Yang. If we ignore the state of Yin and Yang and only talk about their nature, we can use Yang Yao (-) and Yin Yao (-) to represent Yin and Yang. Overlapping the above-mentioned yin-yang hexagrams three times from bottom to top forms eight basic hexagrams, namely, "Gan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Hui", which are called eight classics hexagrams. Overlap the eight classics and hexagrams in pairs, and you can get six hexagrams. There are sixty-four hexagrams in * * *, which are called sixty-four other hexagrams, and each hexagram has a specific name. If we consider the state of Yin and Yang again, the concept of Yin and Yang is further divided into four situations, namely "Old Yin, Lao Yang, Less Yin and Less Yang", which can be represented by four symbols, namely "X, O,-,-,-". There may be four states of Yin and Yang in each rank of each hexagram, so there are 4,96 different hexagrams in all the hexagrams changing system. If all the hexagrams with the same yin-yang nature are put together, 64 kinds of subsystems with the same name of the main hexagrams can be formed, which can be called a certain hexagram system. The content of the textual description of the Book of Changes is the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of some Yi hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams system and the corresponding judgment of good or bad personnel (called occupation). Among them, the first content of each hexagram system is the occupation of the corresponding static hexagram, and the following six items (there are seven in the Gankun hexagram system) are the occupation of the corresponding hexagram system. After Qin and Han Dynasties, there were mistakes or vague understandings about it.
the book divination and Zhouyi originated from the practice of Oracle bone divination. Perhaps in the last years of Yin and Shang Dynasties, Zhou Wenwang wrote down the hexagrams of 64 hexagrams. Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' disciples inherited Confucius' discovery of Zhouyi and wrote Yi Zhuan. When Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, Lisi listed it as a medical divination book and survived. According to ancient records, there are three changes, Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhouyi was popular as a divination book, and people kept explaining and studying it, including Confucius. By the Warring States Period, there were seven kinds of Yi Zhuan, including Classical Chinese, Zhuan Zhuan, Xiang Zhuan, Ci Zhuan, Xu Zhuan and Za Zhuan. Later, the Book of Changes was incorporated into the Book of Changes, which became the Book of Changes we see today.
The invention of the method of using gossip to predict information in Zhouyi is a true portrayal of Chinese people's materialistic world outlook. The difficult things they encounter in practice and daily life are not to turn to idols, but to use the scientific method of predicting the good and bad information of nature and personnel through gossip, so as to be aware of everything and be prepared for everything, so as to better understand, transform and promote the continuous development of society. Therefore, Yi Gua and Zhouyi are a large information base.
After thousands of years of vicissitudes, Zhouyi has become the root of Chinese culture. Yi Dao pays attention to the interaction of Yin and Yang, combining rigidity with softness, and advocates self-improvement and morality. In the 5,-year history of civilization, the reason why the Chinese nation has been able to survive numerous robberies for a long time, to avoid difficulties, to recover from decline and to grow and develop continuously is closely related to our nation's grasp of the times of Yi Dao spirit.
The reason why Zhouyi, an ancient and splendid cultural treasure, can last forever in the world lies in its practicality and scientificity. Its unique function of forecasting and reflecting in advance is unparalleled by any scientific instrument, and it can measure the sky, the earth and the personnel in the middle. The human body itself is an information sensor, which has the function of predicting information, and the division of labor is fine and strict. When the divination is shaken, the copper coin is placed flat on the palm of your hand, and people's easy field works on the copper coin to make it move according to the inductive easy field, so the change of the copper coin reflects the change of yin and yang of the corresponding thing.
There is still no significant progress in the exploration of the principles of Yi-ology in China. Theoretical research is stagnant, thinking is confused, and practical application tends to be mystical. The above situation seriously distorts the academic status of Yi-ology, hinders the benign development of Chinese Yi-ology and blinds the true value of Yi-ology!