The upper and lower classics are divided into upper and lower parts, with 64 sections * * *, which explains the names, characters and purport of 64 hexagrams.
Xiang Zhuan is divided into two parts, explaining the divinatory symbols and images of each divinatory symbol. The interpreter of hexagrams is called Xiang Chuan, and the interpreter of Xiang is called Xiao Xiang Chuan.
Classical Chinese, * * * two paragraphs, respectively explain the meaning of the two hexagrams "Gan" and "Kun", so it is also called "Gan Classical Chinese" and "Kun Classical Chinese". Mainly on the basis of Xun and Xiang, it is further elaborated and expanded.
The Biography of Cohesion is divided into two parts, mainly stating the essence of scripture and implementing the basic principles of hexagrams. This paper makes a comprehensive analysis and exposition of the Book of Changes. One expresses the subtlety of the Book of Changes, and the other shows an important example of reading the Book of Changes.
Talking about the Biography of Eight Diagrams is a monograph on taking images from eight diagrams, and it is also an important basis for discussing the emergence and development of images in the Book of Changes.
The preface to the hexagrams is an overview of the arrangement order of the sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi, which reveals the inheritance and acceptance between the hexagrams. In the first half, there are 30 hexagrams from "dry" to "inside", and the Lord says heaven; The second half, from "Xi 'an" to "Wei Ji" ***34 hexagrams, mainly about human relations.
Miscellaneous hexagrams, still saying "miscellaneous hexagrams, intricate meaning." Sixty-four hexagrams were reorganized into thirty-two pairs of "intricate hexagrams", aiming at explaining the changing law of things' development, which was reflected in positive and negative relative factors.
Hanshu? "The Scholars" records: "Confucius read the Book of Changes, and Wei Wei compiled three unique works. Add me a few years, and I can learn easily in five or ten years, then I can't do anything. " Confucius learned the Book of Changes, but for Wei's compilation and revision of three unique skills, he accumulated his skill for a long time and expressed his feeling: "Give me another five or ten years, and the Book of Changes will go deeper and reduce my big mistakes."