When Zhou Yi s book was produced? How did Zhou Yi s book appear

The Origin of the Book of Changes:

1. The age of the "Book of Changes":

According to scholars, it should be 5,000 years ago, some people say that it was 7,000 years ago, and the age of the book was in the late Shang and early Zhou periods.

2. The origin of the Book of Changes:

As for the origin of the Book of Changes, it is traditionally believed that the Book of Changes originated from "Hetu and Luoshu".

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yellow River appeared with a dragon horse with a figure painted on its back, and Luoshui appeared a spirit turtle with a text on its back, so the sage Fu Xi drew the "innate gossip". In the last years of the Yin Shang dynasty, King Wen of Zhou was imprisoned in 羑 (yǒu) [ancient place name, in the north of present-day Tangyin County, Henan Province], and deduced the "acquired gossip" according to Fuxi's "innate gossip", that is, "King Wen's gossip", and further deduced the sixty-four hexagrams, and made hexagrams and epigrams. Yi Chuan was written by Confucius during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Therefore, the Book of Changes has the saying that "people are more sage, and the world is three ancients". It means that the book of the Book of Changes went through three eras: ancient times, middle ages, and lower antiquity, and was completed by the three sages of Fuxi, King Wen, and Confucius.

3. In history, it is said that there are three kinds of "I Ching", that is, the so-called "Three Changes":

One is called "Lianshan", which was produced in the Shennong era "Lianshan Yi", which first started from the "Gen hexagram", symbolizing "the mountain out of the clouds, endless".

The second is "Returning to Tibet", which was produced in the Yellow Emperor's era, and it starts from the "Kun hexagram", symbolizing that "all things are hidden in it", indicating that all things are born in the ground, and eventually returned to the ground, and everything is based on the earth.

The third is "Zhou Yi", which was produced in the last year of the Yin Shang Dynasty, which starts from the two hexagrams of "Qian" and "Kun", indicating the difference between heaven and earth, as well as "the occasion of heaven and man".

The traditional version adopts Sima Qian's statement that it was written by King Wen of Zhou, ("Gai Xibo detains and plays Zhou Yi", from Sima Qian's "Book of Bao Ren'an"), and the modern consensus is that Zhou Yi was not made by one person at a time, but was formed by a number of scholars at different times, about the Warring States Period. After Qin Huo, it gradually dispersed, and now the Zhou Yi we see is sorted out by Han beginners.

King Gavin detained and played Zhou Yi, which was obviously from the hand of Zhou Wenwu, that is, the end of the Shang Dynasty, more than 4,000 years ago.

The origin of the appearance of Zhou Yi's book was King Wen of Zhou.

According to Sima Qian's record in the "Historical Records": In the last years of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou widely exercised virtue and government, and people from near and far defected, and the Zhou State became more and more prosperous. However, all this aroused the suspicion of the king of Shang. Soon after, Shang imprisoned King Wen of Zhou in Jinli and killed his eldest son, Bo Yi Kao.

During the seven years of his detention, King Wen of Zhou did not sink in a desperate situation, but devoted himself to deducing the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth left by Fuxi, and deduced from the former's gossip to sixty-four trigrams. At the same time, King Wen of Zhou integrated his understanding of the general trend of the world into it, and deduced the oldest "Book of Changes". This is the story of "King Wen detains and plays Zhou Yi".

Confucius was so fond of the Book of Changes that even the rope made of cooked cowhide that was used to connect the book was broken three times. Eventually, the works of Confucius and his successors who interpreted the Book of Changes formed the Book of Changes, which became an important part of the Book of Changes.

The main content of "Zhou Yi":

First, the universe comes into being from nothing, and this nothingness is not an absolute nothingness, so the world we are facing is a world of non-emptiness and non-existence, non-emptiness and non-existence. After unremitting efforts, later scholars initially depicted the cosmogenesis theory of Zhou Yi.

Second, everything is connected, and the universe is holographic.

Third, the universe has been in a state of constant change since its creation, which means that the universe is in perpetual motion. On the other hand, all the space-time points distributed in the universe are absolutely stationary, and it is our cognition that connects these space-time points, so the universe behaves as perpetual motion.

The ancestors acted in the innate era, the heavens were in harmony with people and not against people, and the harmony between man and nature was perfect; In the era after tomorrow, people must act in accordance with heaven and move from heaven. Heaven and man are in harmony when they are born, but there is a lack of mutual coordination between heaven and earth in the day after tomorrow.

This sentence comes from the literary biography of "Zhou Yi", and its complete passage is "The husband is in harmony with heaven and earth, with the sun and the moon, with the four seasons, and with the ghosts and gods." When the congenital and the heavens are violated, the day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, the heavens and the heavens are against the people! ”

Zhou Yi is referred to as "Yi", also known as "I Ching". One of the three easys. Confucianism is revered as the head of the Six Classics.

The Book of Changes is composed of three parts: one is the Fuxi gossip for the beginning, and there was no writing at that time, so the gossip. The second is that King Wen of Zhou and his son inherited the eight trigrams of Fuxi, and the eight eight overlapped sixty-four hexagrams, and the father and son of King Wen of Zhou believed that the 64 hexagrams had included all things in the universe, and each hexagram had a hexagram.

Later, Confucius made a biography, also known as "Yi Chuan" and "Ten Wings", and the development of "I Ching" produced "Lianshan Yi" during the Xia Dynasty, "Guizang Yi" during the Shang Dynasty, and "Zhou Yi" during the Zhou Dynasty. The Book of Changes is the earliest book of the Book of Changes in China, created by Fu Xi. Due to time reasons, "Lianshan Yi" and "Returning to Tibet" have been lost, and only "Zhou Yi" remains.

Therefore, Zhou Yi is from the "Book of Changes", which carries too many historical missions and tasks, but there is no lack of literary and philosophical, and it is one of the important classics of Chinese culture (including Confucianism and Taoism).

The Book of Changes is the theoretical root of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in traditional Chinese thought and culture, and is the crystallization of the thought and wisdom of the ancient Han nation"The source of the avenue"It is the study of the emperors of the ancient Yu Bureau, and the compulsory skill of politicians, military strategists, and merchants. The Book of Changes covers all things, and is an outstanding representative of the traditional culture of the Han nationality; Vast and subtle, all-encompassing, it is also the source of Chinese civilization.

The author of the gossip, "The Biography of the Resignation", believes that Fuxi is taken from the earlier legends of the ancient judgment chain, and the predecessors believe in this statement without doubt. Mr. Nan Huaijin, a well-known scholar, believes that "Zhou Yi" is just about Fuxi, and the author cannot directly refer to Fuxi. Before the Yellow Emperor and Shennong, Fuxi was not the oldest ancestor in the most empty posture, and there were still emperors, earthly emperors, and human emperors in the past, and they slowly arrived at Fuxi.

And Fuxi made gossip, which was Fuxi gossip, that is, it was also a congenital eight hexagrams, so the predecessors thought that the author was Fuxi.

The Book of Changes was written by King Ji Chang of Zhou Wen when he was imprisoned in Jinli, so there is a saying that "King Wen detains and plays Zhou Yi".

Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius compiled and collected it into a book, which was called "Zhou Yi".

Concept: "Zhou Yi" is the "Book of Changes", one of the "Three Changes" (another view: it is believed that the Book of Changes is the Three Changes, not the Zhou Yi), is one of the traditional classics, according to legend, it was written by King Jichang of Zhou Wen, and the content includes the "Jing" and the "Biography" [1] .

The Sutra is mainly sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four hexagrams, and the hexagrams and hexagrams each have their own words that lack the spine (hexagrams, hexagrams), which are used for divination. "Zhou Yi" does not put forward the concepts of yin and yang and tai chi, and the one that talks about yin and yang and tai chi is the "Yi Chuan" influenced by Taoism and yin and yang. The Biography contains a total of 10 texts that explain hexagrams and epigrams, collectively known as the Ten Wings, and is said to have been written by Confucius.

Contents: The Book of Changes consists of the "Sutra" of this text and the "Biography" of the commentary. The "Sutra" is composed of 64 hexagrams with symbolic symbols (i.e., hexagram paintings), and the content of each hexagram includes hexagram paintings, hexagram names, hexagrams, inscriptions, and hexagrams.

The historical status of the Book of Changes: It is a wonderful flower in the treasure house of traditional culture in our country, Confucianism and Taoism are respected as classics, and Buddhism is introduced.

At that time, it was also through his explanation that the Buddha's teachings were expounded. The Book of Changes has probably been the "head of the group of classics and the origin of the great road" since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and its far-reaching influence is the core classic in the treasure house of traditional Chinese culture. It can be said that only by understanding the "Book of Changes" can we better understand China's traditional culture, carry forward the fine traditions of Chinese culture, and seek a way forward for the development of Chinese culture in the new century.

Zhou Yizhong's humanities: 1, the cycle of heaven 2, knowing the time and knowing the number 3, the sense of distress 4, the good and healthy 5, the royal road through the three.

Nature: 1: "Zhou Yi" was produced and early on, it is a book that provides people with guidelines for action.

2. After evolution, it has become a philosophical classic of Anbang governance and self-cultivation. The Book of Occupation, the Book of Philosophy, the Book of History.

The philosophical foundations of traditional Chinese culture. The Chinese tradition does not have a high academic core. A philosophy textbook for ancient Chinese intellectuals.

"Zhou Yi" contains astronomy, geography, military, science, literature, agriculture and other rich knowledge content, has had an extremely profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years, for the Yi, poetry, calligraphy, rituals, music, Spring and Autumn Classics of the first book, set up a book of teaching, enjoy a lofty position in the history of Chinese culture.

Zhou Yi is the essence of China's original traditional culture, is the crystallization of the wisdom and culture of the Chinese nation, is known as the head of the group of classics, the source of the avenue, is the source of Chinese civilization, is an outstanding philosophical masterpiece in ancient China, after more than 7,000 years of history has endured, laid an important value orientation of Chinese culture, created the characteristics of oriental culture, and has an irreplaceable important value and great influence on Chinese culture. [45]

The ideological wisdom of the I Ching has penetrated into all aspects of Chinese life, and its content is extremely rich, and it has had an extremely profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years. Whether it is the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, the Lao Zhuang Doctrine, or the Art of War, or the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, and the Shenlong Yixue, all of them have a close connection with the Book of Changes.

Zhou Yi is a very esoteric book, a very powerful book.