Some doubts about the I Ching, what is the I Ching?

Well! My learning experience is the four-pillar numerology that I read first, of course, I can't understand it at first glance, so let's get an overview.

Then, I started to read the I Ching, studied for a few months, and felt a bottleneck, and then I began to contact the plum blossom and the easy number again, and finally read the I Ching in reverse!

From my learning experience! As you said, all fortune-telling theories have their roots in the Book of Changes, but I add a little bit that it is deeper than the Book of Changes and feeds back to the Book of Changes! Those ingenious methods of reading hexagrams and calculations can in turn verify the mysteries of the I Ching.

Thus this I Ching is like a new book. There is a door that can't be opened, a vast world!

I think that those ancestors who grasped the essence of the I Ching and compiled a deeper scholarship should actually have a more perfect understanding of the I Ching, but because the ancient people were ignorant and relied on the sky for food, they derived fortune telling and fortune telling.

I prefer to think of the I Ching as a big, big theory! Based on this set of theories, those ancestors developed various equations, equations of nature. Then you put the characters in your life into it. Get a result.

Finally, in my opinion, the ancient ancestors may be called immortals. I don't think it would have been possible for the human brain at that time to do such precise calculations and graphical derivations.

It is recommended that you take a look at Gao Heng's Zhou Yijin Translation and Interpretation; The I Ching was not written by one person, but was the accumulation of many people; Gao Heng's writings should be more or less the original version of the I Ching;

It makes sense, but in fact, the core of our national culture is rooted in the Book of Changes, so is our nation playing games?

There is a reason in it, there are many books on this subject now, read it slowly, and I hope that my knowledge in the future will not be as superficial as it is now.

The Book of Changes is one of the oldest and most profound classics in China, which is said to be summarized and modified by Fu Xi's remarks (and produced the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes), which is the crystallization of 5,000 years of wisdom and culture in China, and is known as "the head of the group of classics, the source of the avenue". In ancient times, it was the study of emperors, and the compulsory skills of politicians, military strategists, and merchants. In essence, the I Ching is a book about "divination".

"Divination" is the development of future events, and the Book of Changes is a book that summarizes these laws and theories.

The gossip in the I Ching is eight natural phenomena. Originally, it was the experience summed up by Fu Xi according to the observation of natural weather conditions, and the Bagua map was created with symbols in order to record the experience, and later King Wen of Zhou evolved into 64 hexagrams on the basis of the Bagua, and used it for divination, and made a speech. King Wen's son, Duke Zhou, made a hexagram for each hexagram.

Later, Confucius wrote a biography of it and wrote "Ten Wings". This led to the formation of today's Book of Changes. Since ancient times, the I Ching has been known as the "first of the group of classics", because many of the classic doctrines of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other schools later originated from the "I Ching".

It is the philosophy of the Orientals themselves. Specifically, take a look at Professor Zeng Shiqiang's "Exploring the Mystery of the Book of Changes" in the Hundred Lectures.

Gossip is not to judge the direction, but to identify the weather with eight climates!

Zhou Yifu Hu Bingyan.

Hongmeng is chaotic and pregnant.

Pangu, Wuji began to emerge, Taiji came. The newborn two rituals, the four elephants, the gossip is derived, and the wisdom is opened. The ancestor Fuxi, sat on the square altar for a long time, listened to the breath of the eight winds, watched the grass and warbler fly, judged the thunder, rain and snow, observed the growth and decline of the four seasons, and the eagle soared and the fish jumped, and realized the soul of gossip and the reason of gossip.

Open the way of yin and yang, marriage, and human order. "Tu Guang Xiu Qi Zhao North Threshold, Red Wen Green Character Huan Dong Zhou". People worship it as a god and respect the gossip ancestor.

The civilization of China is mysterious.

Xibo Ji Changxi, acting as King Wen's gossip. Inferential interpretation, 8864. Superimposed imagery, accurate identification.

Qiankun stands in the north and south, and creates heaven and earth into all things. The thunder shook and said that the good religion was good, and Xun chased the yin wind and said that it was advancing and retreating. The danger is in the heart of worry, and the detachment is attached to the soft heart.

Gen stops prudent movement and quietness, and joy and goodness shine on.

Under the ancient Confucius, refine the ten wings. Observe words, observe changes, make instruments, and divination. Take the theory of righteousness and symbolism, and explain the opposition of yin and yang.

A systematic worldview that explains the changes in the universe and human society. The strong universe changes endlessly, saying "the great virtue of heaven and earth", mentioning the essence of "poverty is change, change is passable, and general is long". Tell future generations the idea that "things must be opposed", and adjust the worries of "being prepared for danger in times of peace".

Advocating "conforming to the sky and responding to the people", Zhang Ziqiang is constantly improving, and reform is to become a great cause. With the highest ideal goal of "maintaining peace and harmony", we inherit the idea of "harmony". Establish "easy and heaven and earth".

Expand the accuracy of vague interpretation of reality, establish the all-encompassing essence of Yi hexagram, gossip determines good luck, and good luck and evil give birth to a great cause. People are more three saints, and the world is three ancients. Yin and yang correspond to each other, rigidity and softness are combined, and virtue is loaded, only Zhou Yi.

Easy to go deep. "Seeking the fruits of thousands of years, the image of thousands of thoughts", after thousands of years, the collection of countless people with lofty ideals and analysis, the head of the group of scriptures is worthy of it.

Ancient Zhouyi, new Zhouyi, the core of oriental culture. The sky is open to the new universe, the sky is righteous, the earth is strange, and the heart is spread. The ancient is used to extract the essence of the present, and the yin and yang are strange in the world.

Reveal the law of duality, cherish the treasure and understand the easy reason. Wisdom is like a clear spring, if it is far away, it is inexhaustible, and it is inexhaustible. "Mandarin duck embroidery from the king's view, do not put the gold needle degree with people", the jade box is stored next to the pillow, how to leave his body for a while.

Don't be angry. You're a mystic, plus a retro one. It is true that the bronze ware passed very first, but today, you insist that the bronze shovel passed before the forklift, and you are talking with your eyes closed. Only now do I understand that it is not for nothing that Mao Yidong broke the four olds.

The scope of the problem is huge. To put it simply, the Book of Changes is a book on divination, but it has influenced China's 5,000-year-old culture. Nan Huaijin has many books on the I Ching, which are much better than the garbage books on the market.

Let's talk a little more about Zhou Yi is metaphysics, metaphysics is to say that it is mysterious and incomprehensible, and it can be explained as you want, and it cannot be proved or falsified. If it is used for fortune telling or surveying, it may reveal the secret of heaven or it may be a magic stick.

But it never hurts to look at it more. It is also the ancestor of Chinese culture.

It seems like putting the cart before the horse. In order to be able to perceive various phenomena in the natural world and be able to guide themselves, the ancient Central Plains people had limited knowledge, so they discovered simple natural processes according to natural phenomena and created the I Ching to calculate divination. So in essence, the ** of the I Ching is still the objective natural world, and divination is nonsense now, but in the eyes of people at the time, this is natural science.

Confucius said in the "Biography of the Lower Words": "The ancients Bao Xi, the king of the world, looked up at the sky, looked down at the law on the ground, watched the birds and beasts and the earth appropriately, took all the bodies closely, and took all things from afar, so he began to gossip, with the virtue of the gods, and the love of all things." In fact, it shows that.

Of course, the results obtained by divination calculations will not be accurate, but they reflect the good intentions of human beings at that time to try to understand the world rationally. However, later, human beings discovered more natural laws, and gradually removed the function of the predictive laws of the I Ching, and only regarded it as a classic for divination of good fortune and evil.

Chinese thought is the unity of heaven and man, since the I Ching exposes the opportunity of heaven and earth, of course, there is also a reason for dealing with people, success or failure, rise and fall, so the later generations of Confucianism once again gave the Book of Changes a classic that clarifies ethics and morality and dynasty succession. Cheng Zhu saw that the I Ching could be used as a structure for the cosmology, so they did not simply regard the I Ching as a divination book, but provided Confucianism with the basis for establishing a complete cosmology.

From a certain point of view, the more rational the later the I Ching becomes, the more rational it becomes, perhaps deviating from the original intention, but there is still a lot of wisdom in it.

You see that it's only superficial, like we know that 1+1 is equal to 2, but we don't know why 1+1 = 2. You said that elementary school mathematics is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and when you get to college, you have calculus and multivariate multiple equations, right, but you don't understand it, so it's simple, and it's not easy to have an in-depth understanding of any field.

Hegel, the former German philosopher, talked about the I Ching, and he believed that there were two main points: first, the I Ching philosophy represented Chinese abstract thought and pure categories; Second, I Ching philosophy represents the contrast between what is deepest and universal in the pure mind of the Chinese and what is external by chance. He discovered the essential characteristics of the hexagram in the phenomenological system of the I Ching philosophy, but he has not yet touched the core of the I Ching philosophy, that is, the objects and images symbolized by all the hexagrams, and the symbolic representation of the hexagram on this basis.

Obviously, the essential feature of the unity of heaven and man in Chinese Yixue, he also closed his eyes and said nonsense.

So, you may have stiffened it too.

Reference.

Yes. It's just an innate approach.

The Book of Changes is an ancient classic that expounds the changes in heaven and earth and the world, and is a profound book of dialectical philosophy. Including "Lianshan", "Guizang", "Zhou Yi" three easy books, of which "Lianshan" and "Gui Zang" have been lost, and only "Zhou Yi" is extant in the world.