China's classics books include The Book of Changes, Calligraphy, Poetry, Rites, Spring and Autumn Annals, Filial Piety, General Meaning of Group Classics, Four Books, Music and Primary School. The Yi category is extensive and profound, ranking first in the classics and the highest in all the books. Confucius highly praised the Book of Changes, saying that it is "easy to conform to heaven and earth" and "God has no way but is endless." The Summary of the General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu says that "Yi Dao is vast and all-encompassing, with astronomy, geography, music, art of war, rhyme and arithmetic as its neighbors, and it can be easily said." Lao Zi, a masterpiece of philosophy that suddenly emerged in the pre-Qin period, has many exquisite philosophical views all from Zhouyi. Yang Xiong's Taixuan in Han Dynasty absorbed the strengths of Zhouyi and Laozi, which is a philosophical work of the times that is superior to other philosophical works. The profound influence of Zhouyi can be seen from this.
the book of changes is divided into two parts: the book of changes and the book of changes. The Book of Changes, also known as the Book of Changes, is an ancient book of natural science in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, a summary of natural science, society, history and philosophy from Yin Shang to Zhou Dynasty, and a great work that organically combines natural science and philosophy.
The Book of Changes is composed of hexagrams and epigrams. "Jing", now known as divination, consists of sixty-four hexagrams, each with six hexagrams, including seven hexagrams for Gankun and three hundred and eighty-six hexagrams for * *. Each hexagram has its own shape, name and words. Each column has its own questions and remarks. The questions are all composed of two words, one representing the order and the other representing the nature. The order is from bottom to top, with the word "early" for the first, "two" for the second, "three" for the third, "four" for the fourth, "five" for the fifth and sixth. The nature of hexagram consists of nine (yang hexagram) and six (yin hexagram). There are * * * 45 hexagrams and speeches, accounting for more than 4,9 words.
The Book of Changes was written in the early Yin and Zhou Dynasties, which was the heyday of slavery society, and was in the prosperous stage of the Zhou Dynasty. As the society was relatively stable, astronomy, calendars and agricultural industries flourished accordingly. For example, in astronomy and calendar, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty contains records such as the date of the dry branch, the apparent date of Guiyu, the time of missing engraving, the eclipse of the moon and so on. Due to the improvement of productivity, the scientific level must also develop accordingly, which provides objective conditions for the germination of scientific thinking in the Book of Changes, and the philosophical embryo base of the Book of Changes was conceived under such a social background. As the Shang Dynasty was a slave society, the production level and scientific level were relatively low, and people's cognitive ability was still limited, so the concept of divination at that time was inevitable. Although the Book of Changes is a divination book, its content is a documentary of the social production and scientific research in the Shang Dynasty, which is the embryo of China's early culture and the originator of China's scientific thinking, philosophy and culture.
The Book of Changes was written from the Spring and Autumn Period to the mid-Warring States Period, which is an annotation and development of the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes includes ten chapters, namely, Yi Shang, Yi Xia, Xiang Shang, Xiang Xia, Classical Chinese, Cohesion, Cue Xia, divination, preface divination and miscellaneous divination, also known as Ten Wings. The legend was written by Confucius, but it was not written by one person. During this period, due to the application of iron, the productivity was greatly advanced, the level of industrial and agricultural production was constantly improved, and the new ideological trend adapted to the feudal society flourished. hundred schools of thought became active, and the academic atmosphere was strong. Confucianism, Laozi School and the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements were fully developed. Due to the high development of production level at that time, scientific thinking and philosophical concepts will inevitably develop. The authors of Yi Zhuan absorbed the concept of Yin-Yang and Five Elements at that time and hundred schools of thought's theory, and rearranged the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes fully developed the scientific and philosophical thinking at that time by means of the Book of Changes, and collected the philosophical achievements since the pre-Qin period, ranking first among China's books. The main points are as follows:
The Biography of Classical Chinese consists of two chapters, which respectively explain the meanings of the two hexagrams, Gan and Kun. Because the two hexagrams are the foundation of the philosophy of Zhouyi, they are designed to urge the sample.
Zhuan Zhuan is divided into two parts along with the upper and lower classics. Each hexagram has one, * * * sixty-four, which respectively explain the hexagram names, seals and the gist of the mother hexagram.
Xiang Zhuan is also divided into two parts along with the upper and lower classics. Biography of Elephants includes Biography of Elephants and Biography of Elephants. The former contains one hexagram and sixty-four hexagrams, respectively explaining the principle of taking images of the sixty-four hexagrams and their symbolic significance. The latter has one for each, and * * * 384 for each, respectively, explaining the purport of each image.
The Biography of Cohesion is divided into two parts because of its long length. This paper mainly introduces the Book of Changes, and discusses the author, creative method, writing time, divination principle and other aspects of the Book of Changes, and explains the significance of nineteen remarks in the same room.
Shuo Gua Zhuan first narrates the origin and orientation of eight diagrams, and then focuses on the characteristics of eight diagrams and cites many examples, which is an important material for discussing the emergence and accumulation of images in Yi today.
Zhuan Xu Gua Zhuan analyzes the arrangement order of sixty-four hexagrams, and reveals the significance of successive hexagrams.
The Biography of Miscellaneous Guas doesn't follow the hexagrams' sequence in the Biography of Preface Guas. In addition, sixty-four hexagrams are divided into thirty-one groups to play
two pairs, and the meanings of the hexagrams are explained in essential language.
The chapters in Yi Zhuan were originally single lines, and they were not mixed with the scriptures. Scholars in the Han Dynasty attached Classical Chinese Biography
to Gan and Kun respectively, and attached Xun Zhuan and Xiang Zhuan to 64 hexagrams respectively.