A question about a sentence in the Book of Changes Tianxingjian Houde Zaiwu .

Before Confucius, the Book of Changes was indeed only a book of divination, and it was only when Confucius wrote the Ten Wings that the Book of Changes was pulled from the category of nature to the category of humanity and to the category of morality. The extrapolation you are talking about is indeed an extrapolation. The Book of Changes calculates the laws of the universe, but don't ignore that people are also part of the nature of the universe.

As for your two sentences, they are related to Confucius's study of the two hexagrams. For all civilized laws are based on man!

In fact, the whole book can be said to revolve around this sentence, which is equivalent to the center of the book. If you look up the essence of the I Ching, you will understand. The whole book is not a simple extrapolation.

The first class of Beijing No. 35 Middle School has carried out a theme class meeting on June 17, 2011, and has in-depth understanding of the internal relationship of this sentence and has been explained by classmates, I will introduce it to you.

I Ching

The first hexagram is to dry the heavens, and to do the things from the top to the bottom.

Xiang said: Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. Don't use the hidden dragon, the sun is also below.

Dry all day long, repeatedly. Or jump in the abyss, and enter without blame. The flying dragon is in the sky, and the big man is also man.

Kang Long has regrets, and he can't last long. With nine, Tiande cannot be the head.

Those who are dry are also those who are prosperous from the beginning. Those who are chaste have a temperament. Qianshi can benefit the world with America, and it is self-evident.

Great! What a deal! Strong and upright, pure and refined.

Liuyao plays, and the bypass is also. When taking six dragons, to the sky. The clouds and rain are shining, and the world is peaceful.

A gentleman takes virtue as his line, and his line can be seen every day. Hidden is also a word, hidden but not seen, and not done, it is also used by a gentleman. A gentleman learns to gather, asks to argue, is lenient to live, and benevolent to act.

The second hexagram Kun Kun is the earth, Kun is up and down.

Xiang said: The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue.

Heaven (i.e., nature) is strong and vigorous, and correspondingly, a gentleman should be like the sky, striving for self-improvement, perseverance, indignation, and never stopping;

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that horses are used to describe self-improvement; Kun is a cow, and the cow is used to interpret the character of people.

Some ancient sayings do not need to be explained in detail, the key is personal taste.

This understanding is kind of interesting.

But generally speaking, this sentence - "Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue" - it should be understood in this way: the movement of heaven (i.e., nature) is strong and vigorous, and correspondingly, the gentleman should be like the sky, strive for self-improvement, be resolute and resolute, be angry and strive for strength, and never stop; The momentum of the earth is thick and smooth, and a gentleman should thicken virtue and contain all things.

It is to compare the gentleman with heaven and earth, and if you understand it separately like you, there will be deviations.

Hello. [Tianxingjian], a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement.

Dry is the sky, the sky is the image of the trigram, the sky, the main yang, the yang initiative. Therefore, those who do not talk about the hexagram of the Qiangua here, but say "Xingjian", this is the "virtue" of the Qiangua. Other hexagrams all say hexagram names, but here, replacing the hexagram name with the [De] of the Qiangua means that the sixty-four hexagrams all have the [De] of [Tianxingjian] (there is also the [De] of the Kun hexagram).

The following [gentlemen] are all common names for those who have [virtue].

The practice of health is [rigidity], and it cannot be resisted.

Xiao Laoshu I Ching Language: Tianxingjian, a gentleman is self-improving; The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue.

1 As an intellectual created by traditional Chinese culture, Wen Tianxiang also liked "Yi", and in a poem he wrote in his early years, there was a sentence "tired of chanting poetry, and frequently burning and reading the fragrance of "Yi". In the famous poem "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang", he said again, "Hard work meets a classic". This "Yijing" refers to the Book of Changes.

He is the first in the "Book of Changes" in the Baoyou Yimao (1255) Jizhou Township, and in the "Book of Changes" in the Baoyou Bingchen (1256) court test Jinshi.

Wen Tianxiang is based on "Zhou Yi, Shangjing, Qianyi" in "Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement." In the "Imperial Examination Policy" of the National Jinshi Examination, the famous philosophical topic of "the law and the heavens are endless" was first put forward. Its intention was to arouse the national spirit of Rijong and reform political affairs in order to revitalize the Song dynasty and realize the ideal of strengthening the country and enriching the people.

As he said when he explained "the law and heaven are endless" in the "Imperial Trial Strategy": "Heaven and earth are the same as the Tao, and the heart of the saint is the same as the heaven and the earth." He believes that "the person who keeps talking about reason is as great as "Yi" and "The Mean".

As for the changes in the main road, the way of the great "Yi" is to protect the peace of each life. And the sage's argument of the law is to return to self-improvement. The way of "The Mean", as for Pu Bo Yuanquan, the load of heaven is silent.

And the sage's theory of matching heaven and earth is to return to it for a long time, isn't it the reason why Qianzheng has just been built and is pure and refined, and he is an endless Dao ear. It is the law of heaven, and it is also endless. The reason why "The Mean" is so clever and broad, and the long-standing and boundless people are endless.

It is with heaven and earth, and it is with one end. With an unending heart, the saint is the unending heaven and earth. ”

Perhaps it is because of this relationship that everyone has this misunderstanding.

It is in Zhou Yi, this may be Wen Tianxiang quoting Zhou Yi's words, because Zhou Yi is a work of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and Wen Tianxiang is a person from the Southern Song Dynasty, a difference of more than a thousand years.

The original text is indeed Zhou Yili, from "Zhou Yi Qian": "Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement." The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue. It's not unusual for Wen Tianxiang to say it, so many people have said it!

Yes, "Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement." The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue. These two sentences are not connected, but they are neatly opposed, so they are said together.