The Book of Changes is also called Zhouyi. "Book of Changes" is written, "people are more holy, and the world is three ancient". The three saints are Fuxi, King Wen and Confucius. The Book of Changes originated in Fuxi, who observed the image in the sky, the law in the earth, the water, fire, wind, thunder, mountains, and ze, and took all things near and far away, so he wrote eight diagrams. Zhou Wenwang was imprisoned and played Yi Fuxi's gossip, that is, innate gossip was the gossip of the day after tomorrow, and promoted the gossip to sixty-four hexagrams; Finally, Confucius wrote the Book of Changes, which is the Book of Changes we see now.
Confucius said in the Zhuan Gua Zhuan in Yi Zhuan that Gan Kun was his parents, and Gan Kun gave birth to three men and three women, which is gossip. My father lives in the northwest, my mother lives in the southwest, my eldest son lives in the east, my eldest daughter lives in the southeast, my second son lives in the north, my second daughter lives in the south, my boys live in the northeast and my girls live in the west.
The Book of Changes is profound, broad and subtle, and all-encompassing. Confucianism and Taoism, which have the greatest influence on China's culture, all have their ideological systems from the Book of Changes-Confucianism starts with divination and argues for the vigorous characteristics of self-improvement, so as to deduce its views on life, society, country and even everything; The Taoist theory starts with Kun Gua, and discusses the character of being virtuous and carrying things, so as to deduce the views on life, society, country and even everything. However, it is extremely dry and yin is born, and Kun is extremely yang, which shows that things cannot be extremely extreme, and extremes must be reversed. Although Confucianism and Taoism have different arguments, they have the same result. The motto of Tsinghua University, an authoritative university of education in China, is also derived from two hexagrams in Zhouyi, namely, "Heaven is strong, gentlemen strive for self-improvement" (dry hexagrams) and "terrain is rich, gentlemen carry things with virtue" (Kun hexagrams). "Self-improvement and virtue-bearing" brilliantly summarizes the relationship and dialectical treatment of China culture to man and nature, man and society, and man and man. In fact, "self-improvement and virtue-bearing" has already constituted the national spirit and character of the Chinese nation.
The Book of Changes is a book about changes and an ancient and magical treasure trove of wisdom. With the development of society and the emphasis on traditional culture, the Book of Changes will be recognized by more and more people. In 214, the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences began to recruit master students of Yijing and Prediction, and in recent years, there have been many questions about Yijing in the college entrance examination questions. In 219, the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences included Yijing and Prediction in the 219 doctoral (full-time) enrollment plan. This news reflects that China Academy of Social Sciences, as the authoritative organization of the government in humanities and social sciences, has re-examined the academic status and influence of "Zhouyi Prediction", incorporated it into the disciplinary system, and began to focus on cultivating talents who can master Zhouyi Prediction. The Book of Changes, as the research direction of prediction, was listed under the major of China Philosophy, and it first appeared in the enrollment plan of the national authoritative university. The prediction of Zhouyi is no longer a superstitious deception circulating in the rivers and lakes in the eyes of some people.
China's modern medicine, astronomy, meteorology, chemistry, mathematics, music and so on are all developed in the knowledge system of the Book of Changes.
For a long time, The Book of Changes has been valued not only by Chinese people, but also by other countries-the pattern of the Korean national flag (Tai Chi flag) and the Tai Chi map in the Mongolian national flag are both from the Book of Changes.
Since the 17th century, The Book of Changes has been translated into many versions and has gone overseas, which has attracted great attention from people of insight all over the world. It has not only promoted the exchange and development of Chinese and Western cultures, but also brought new challenges and injected new vitality into the western civilization system.
In p>1626, Zhouyi was translated into Latin by French missionary Jinnige. In the 193s, Jean Baptiste Regis, a French missionary, published the first book systematically introducing the Book of Changes in Latin, The Oldest Book in China. Since then, The Book of Changes has entered the world's scientific and cultural halls, and set off a wave of Yi-ology around the world. Since then, China's thinking has infiltrated into the cultural heritage of all nationalities in the world.
Hegel, a famous German philosopher, said, "The Book of Changes represents the wisdom of China people. The biggest regret in my life is that I didn't fully understand China's Book of Changes."
Dr. Joseph Needham, a famous British scientist, praised ancient China as "the cradle of world civilization" in his magnum opus History of Science and Technology in China, and called Zhouyi "the treasure house of all concepts".
Christopher Badtke, a British scholar, once said, "The Book of Changes is surprisingly close to the truth, and what is even more surprising is that all the secrets of life on earth are closely related to the structure of the Book of Changes". Sixty-four hexagrams correspond strictly to sixty-four DNA coding factors in the genetic code. Four pairs of basic groups (eight numbers) happen to coincide with the eight diagrams of four yin and four yang, while 384 yin-yang bonds are in perfect harmony with 384 yin-yang bonds in Zhouyi.
Bohr, a Danish master of quantum physics, found the principle of "harmony" in his life. This principle coincides with the principle of "Yin and Yang complement each other" in the Book of Changes, and has profound internal generality. In order to reward him for his special contribution, the King of Denmark designed a Tai Chi map pattern on the medal of honor awarded to him.
In p>175, someone wrote: "China people lost the true meaning of the six ideas, and a European genius rediscovered this knowledge for them." Leibniz, the last generalist in European history, a great philosopher, mathematician, logician, historian and linguist in the German Enlightenment, published the Interpretation of Binary Operation in 173, and used the example that Fuxi's innate eight diagrams corresponded to the binary representation of eight numbers from to 7. Leibniz regards binary as "universal language", but his binary system can't be connected with the acquired eight diagrams, so he has to come to the conclusion that the connotation of eight diagrams is far from being completely simulated by the binary number system.
the great significance of Leibniz's binary system has been proved by the rapid development of modern computer science and internet-their information processing and transmission use binary representation and algorithm.
inspired by the book of changes, Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, put forward the "simultaneity principle" with great theoretical value. Jung pointed out that the principle of simultaneity can be proved by psychoanalytic cases, mainly because the Book of Changes provides the most perfect theoretical basis. He said: "It is really strange that a talented and intelligent people like China people have not developed what we call science."
Chinese physicists Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning were inspired by the principle of the growth and decline of Yin and Yang in the Book of Changes, and discovered the law of parity non-conservation under the condition of weak interaction.
Charles Wilhelm, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, commented on China's Book of Changes: "The knowledge-based economy is changing our times, but many people don't know that this revolution, which has brought us great impact, really benefited from the great classic Book of Changes in ancient China. The information theory thought contained in the Book of Changes not only inspired our scientists to create computers, but also is becoming a decision-making guide for more and more common westerners in their daily lives.
The Book of Changes is a treasure to unlock the secrets of the universe and life. Its expression is gossip, and its core is Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Yin and Yang are two opposing and unified forces in all things in the world. The five elements "wood, fire, earth, gold and water" are the five basic substances that make up the universe. Yin-yang and five elements belong to the relationship between form and content, that is, the content of Yin-yang is reflected by the images of wood, fire, earth, gold and water, and the five elements belong to the existing form of Yin-yang content. The Book of Changes is about the laws of Yin and Yang of five things in the universe.
Maintaining the balance between the five elements and Yin and Yang is the magic weapon to win the Book of Changes, and it is also the foundation to obtain the harmony and vitality of all things. Life is produced by the movement and gasification of Yin and Yang. Take human beings for example, the meaning of the balance of yin and yang in life is the balance of viscera, cold and heat and the balance of qi and blood. The five internal organs are yin and the six internal organs are yang; Cold is yin and heat is yang; Blood is yin and qi is yang. Liver and gallbladder belong to wood, heart, small intestine and triple energizer belong to fire, spleen and stomach belong to soil, lung and large intestine belong to gold, and kidney and bladder belong to water. If one's viscera and yin and yang can be balanced, then one's qi and blood will be sufficient, one's energy will be abundant, the five internal organs will be safe, and the six internal organs will be healthy and healthy.
the ancients said: know life can be carefree. So how to "know life"? The fate of life will be displayed in the lucky year of the Eight Characters, which contains all aspects of life information. From the Eight Characters, we can accurately predict the information of good fortune and bad fortune of myself and my relatives in different Universiade, and can accurately characterize specific things. We can also look at the living feng shui environment through the Eight Characters, which will directly affect the fate of life.
Everything in the world is changing, only the law of heaven itself remains unchanged, so the change of things must follow the law of the operation of heaven. Learning the Book of Changes is to master this law, apply this law, conform to heaven, conform to nature, conform to heaven and meet people, seek good fortune and avoid evil, and live a better life!