The question of the I Ching, what does the I Ching refer to?

It can be understood in this way that Yi is the interpretation of the I Ching by the masters of the past, and the master here mainly refers to Confucius. And the elephant is one of the contents of the I Ching.

The I Ching mainly contains three major parts, namely "image, number, and reason", and the so-called "life."

Second, two lives. 3. Three begets of all things", here one refers to Taiji, refers to nothingness, and refers to the chaotic world when heaven and earth are not born; The two refers to yin and yang, positive and negative, high and low, male and female, length and so on, while three can be understood as "reason, image, number" here, and can also understand the three-dimensional space of growth, width and height, and can also be understood as "three talents", that is, "heaven, earth, man" and so on.

What are images, numbers, and reason?

There is also a quote from Mr. Nan Huaijin:"According to the viewpoint of the Book of Changes, everything in the universe is seen - whether it is life, emotions, or thoughts. All have their principles and principles.

In our modern concept, reason belongs to philosophy, and everything in the universe has its reason and its image. On the other hand, every phenomenon in the universe must have its own reason, and at the same time, every phenomenon must have its number. For example, this tape is for recording, it can record, there are many reasons in it, the appearance of the tape, the size and the sound it will emit, that is, its image; This tape, which can be recorded in a few minutes, is a few times long and a few times wide, and that's how many it is. Everything has its reason, its image, and its number.

To put it simply, reason is the philosophical category of the I Ching, and the number of images is the application category of the I Ching.

According to legend, the Book of Changes is "Fuxi Hexagram, King Wen's Words, Confucius Biography", that is, the Book of Changes is three, the earliest is Fuxi, as "Lianshan Yi", then the Yellow Emperor, as "Returning to Tibet", and finally the "Zhou Yi" of King Wen of Zhou. Some people also say that the Book of Changes is a record of divination collected by the divination of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was created by Yin Shang, gradually formed by the Western Zhou Dynasty, and compiled by Confucius.

The Book of Changes is a play on the principles of the Book of Changes: Xiang is a work of pure Confucianism, Yi is the foundation work of the integration of Confucianism and Taoism, and the Dictionaries and Hexagrams are a synthesis of Confucianism, Taoism and Yin and Yang thoughts. The authors of each article of "Yi Chuan" are:

Zeng Zi wrote "Elephant", Zi Si wrote "Little Elephant", Zihong wrote "Yi", Tian He wrote "Dictionaries", Ding Kuan wrote "Saying Hexagrams", Yang He wrote "Wenyan", and Tian Wangsun wrote "Preface Hexagram" and "Miscellaneous Hexagrams". These can be seen as interpretations of the I Ching.

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The master's words and teachings are very good.

Zhou Yi is divided into "I Ching" and "Yi Chuan".

The subsequent study of the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes is called "Yi Xue") I Ching: a total of 64 hexagrams, each of which includes hexagram paintings, hexagrams, titles, and words.

Yi Chuan: There are ten articles, also known as the "Ten Wings", which are commentaries on the Book of Changes.

The Biography of Yi (upper and lower) and the Elephant Biography (upper and lower) are the four passages in the Yi Chuan. They are all commentaries and interpretations of the I Ching.

Yi and Xiang can be regarded as explanations, and more importantly, they point out the role of the I Ching, which governs the country through the state.

There is a "Book of Changes" published by Yunnan University, which has pinyin and is a children's book. You can get started.

"I Ching" refers to the three books of change "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhou Yi". Essentially, the I Ching is a book of exposition of change, and has long been used as a "divination". Later generations learned more of its philosophy, and thus became a broad and profound dialectical philosophical book.

The Book of Changes contains simple and profound natural laws and harmonious dialectical thoughts, and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years. It understands and grasps the world from a holistic perspective, and regards man and nature as an organic whole that induces each other.

Many people mistakenly think that the Book of Changes is the Book of Changes, and the Book of Changes is the Book of Changes. In fact, this view is wrong, simply put, the difference between Zhou Yi and I Ching is the difference in subordination, and the Book of Changes contains Zhou Yi.

Regarding the "Three Changes", "Zhou Li, Chunguan Dabu" says: "The method of holding the three changes, one is called Lianshan, the second is to return to Tibet, and the third is to Zhou Yi." "The Book of Changes has "Three Changes", including "Lianshan", "Returning to Tibet" and "Zhou Yi".

The Book of Changes believes that all things in heaven and earth are in a state of never-ending development, and it expounds this "natural" law. This law reveals the characteristics of the entire universe and includes the properties of all things in heaven and earth. "Easy", one is "easy", the second is "simple", and the third is "not easy".

Change refers to the way of change, and everything is changing all the time.

Simple, one yin and one yang, encompassing the principles of all kinds of things; Where there is heaven and earth, there is up and down, there is before and after, all of them are opposites and opposites.

It is not easy, although the things in the world are intricate and changeable, but there is one thing that will never change, that is, the law; Heaven and earth run, the four seasons rotate, cold and heat alternate, winter cold and summer heat, the moon is in the wan, the sun and noon are biased, and the extremes of things must be reversed, this is the law.

The development of everything has "fixed numbers" and "variables", and there are rules to follow and no rules to follow; A definite number contains a variable, and a variable contains a definite number, and the overall situation remains unchanged regardless of whether it is a definite number or a variable. It is easy to have Taiji, Taiji gives birth to Eryi, Eryi gives birth to four elephants, and Sixiang gives birth to gossip. The gossip is lined up, and the image is in it; Therefore, it is important to be in it; Rigidity and softness push each other, and change in it; It is a matter of resignation and fate, and it is in it.

What is the basic meaning and what is the authentic content? Let's break it down below.

Three tombs: Lianshan Yi, Guizang Yi, Zhou Yi.

Sanyi - has long since died, in fact, it is also updated and eliminated.

Lianshan Yi begins with the Gen hexagram, which represents the mountain and the Izumo of the elephant mountain, hence the name.

Returning to Tibet is easy to take the kun hexagram as the first hexagram.

Zhou Yi began with the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun.

Lianshan Yi is a Zhan Zheng book of the Xia period, but the Shang Dynasty overthrew Xia under the guidance of Lianshan Yi.

Gui Zang Yi is a book of divination in the Shang period, written in oracle bone script by the ancient father of the Zhou Dynasty, a vassal state of the Shang.

Zhou also guided the construction of his "base area" with "Returning to Tibet", which directly contributed to the fall of the Shang Dynasty.

After the establishment of power in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it paid attention to the use of words and limited it to the use of royal power.

"Zhou Yi" is a book that teaches people to face change, which can only be said to be the final perfection of "Lianshan Yi" and "Returning to Tibet".

Zhou Yi became the most popular divination book in the Zhou era, but it was only a hexagram book and had no political use.

What's even more cruel is that the era of "easy" is coming to an end! In its place is the Tao.

Zhou Yi said that the Tao is "one yin and one yang", and the Tao of the Tao Te Ching is broad and subtle, Luo Zong for hundreds of generations!

The richest interpretation of the Tao lies in the Tao Te Ching. Essence, principle, law, how can this be covered by one yin and one yang?

It can even be said that the source of "yin and yang" is the "Tao" of morality, and "yin and yang" is only one category of "Tao".

Misfortune and blessing are relied upon, and blessing and misfortune are lurking. The world is so unpredictable, while you are at your richest, the seeds of decay are sown for you; When you are at your most decaying, plant the seeds of prosperity and strength for you - just like the yin and yang diagram of the Tao Te Ching!

Dao] has become a symbol of the beginning of the new era of China, leading China's ideological circles with the strength of young and strong, breaking through the simple concept of "culture", and giving culture a connotation of "thought", so that "culture" has an endless source. Reading the Tao Te Ching, what you read is not knowledge but thoughts, and you can't understand its philosophical truth without a certain accumulation of thoughts! Therefore, the Tao Te Ching should belong to the study objects of college students, at least high school students.

The key to the research method is to clarify the difference between the pre-Qin literary language and the literary language. In the case of the Book of Changes, what you read is not knowledge but culture, which is broad and profound! The Book of Changes was written long before the Xia and Shang periods, and the author was not Confucius, let alone a Confucian classic.

In fact, the most thorough study of the I Ching is the Taoist people, and if you want to know [how to use the I Ching], you must study Taoism.