"Great efforts are the beginning of everything" means that vigorous and grand efforts are the power resources for the creation and transformation of all things.
From the post-Confucianism of the Warring States Period, Yi Zhuan Chuan Shang.
Original text:
Xun said: whoever achieves great things, everything begins, and it is the unification of heaven. Sex and rain, material flow. Daming will always be, when six people succeed, when six dragons rule the sky.
Translation:
This is the divinatory meaning of the History of the Three Kingdoms: Gan Yuan's vigorous and grand spirit is the power resource to create and transform everything, so everything is taken from heaven. There are clouds in the sky and rain on the ground, which makes everything multiply and have different shapes. The sun runs in the sky, so it forms six directions, that is, the sun drives six dragons to rule the world.
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Xun Zhuan is divided into upper and lower parts, which are two parts of Yi Zhuan. Explain the meaning of hexagrams in the Book of Changes, and specifically explain the names, images and characters of hexagrams. No foul language involved.
According to the notes of Han and Wei Dynasties, Confucius in Tang Dynasty indicated that "Xun" was "Duan", that is, judging the meaning of a hexagram. It can be divided into three categories: interpreting hexagrams with hexagrams; Interpret hexagrams with righteousness and virtue, and interpret hexagrams with hexagrams.
It is believed that "everything in heaven and earth is empty and keeps pace with the times" is the common law of nature and human life, the world is in the process of constant change, and the relationship between heaven and earth is unity of opposites.
And Shang Xian put forward the theory of being in position, being in the middle, being proportional, bearing and riding, being in the middle of time, being rigid and soft, being suitable for people and being moral. Have a far-reaching impact on future generations.
Because of the abstruse and simple scripture of Zhouyi, scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period had great difficulty in reading it. Therefore, the text that explains the scriptures began to appear, and the history is called Yi Zhuan.
The Book of Changes consists of seven chapters, and its creation time is not very long (about five or six hundred years) from the formation of the scriptures. It is the most primitive and authoritative text to explain scripture.
These seven articles are: Biography of Xun, Biography of Xiang, Biography of Cohesion, Biography of Classical Chinese, Biography of Shuo Gua, Biography of Preface Gua and Biography of Miscellaneous Gua, among which Biography of Xun, Biography of Xiang and Biography of Cohesion are divided into three parts, plus "wing" which means "wing".
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