To learn to draw pictures, start with the basic yin and yang diagram, start with the two rituals, the four images, the eight trigrams, and then the sixty-four hexagrams. You must learn to draw these hexagrams.
Then the connection between Bagua and all things. Bagua is used to represent all things. Why it should represent these things needs to be clarified. For example, in the Dui Gua icon, why is it happy, why is it incomplete, why is it words, why is it a girl, why is it a sheep, and why does it represent gold? In this way, you will make greater progress in learning Bagua.
These are not only knowledge about Yin Yang and Five Elements icons, but also basic knowledge necessary for prediction. It’s also about understanding why Bagua and all things are so connected.
Once again, we need to learn to understand the line words, combine them with the hexagram diagrams, and understand what aspect of knowledge each hexagram as a whole is talking about? What role does it play in our study, life, and life? This is the most practical thing. If there are any problems in life, after reading the I Ching, we can come up with good solutions so that we can move on. This is how we can implement the guidance of the I Ching.
The lines of the Book of Changes teach us how to be a human being from a broad perspective, so don’t just look at the lines, which are more than 4,000 words. It is a priceless treasure. Every sentence is a password. We must learn to find the key in order to learn to be happy.
It is necessary to conduct in-depth research in conjunction with relevant I-Ching books. There are so many books on the I Ching. To study the works of the ancients, you must understand ancient Chinese. Therefore, a good foundation in ancient Chinese is also the basic skill for studying the works of the ancients on the I Ching. For example, to study the Huangdi Neijing, you need to understand the I Ching.
You must be patient and learn slowly. Both divination predictions and life practice can be implemented from the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun, and your life will undergo big changes. You should reflect more on the difficulties and distress you encounter in your life and find solutions from the I Ching. This is to use the I Ching.
In addition, you need to have a friend who is studying together, so that it will be easier for you to study together and discuss it together. So if you have good friends or teachers, it will be much easier to learn.
Historical origin
The "Book of Changes" is a product of ancient civilization. It is a highly philosophical work that integrates my country's natural sciences and social sciences. The "Book of Changes" is divided into three parts, "Lianshan" and "Guizang" in the Emperor's era, and "Zhouyi", the Book of Changes in the Qin and Han Dynasties, are collectively called the "Three Books of Changes" (there is another theory that all three books were written in ancient times) .
In ancient times, people determined celestial phenomena, observed earthly rituals, observed phenomena and told time, created calendars and Yi Shu, etc., and civilization began. "Preface to the Spring and Autumn Ming Calendar": "The sky and the earth are opened, all things are muddy and ignorant; the celestial bodies are based on the yin and yang, and the celestial bodies begin in the wilds of the North Pole... The sun and the moon rotate around the five latitudes; the emperor comes out... The signs of the sky are determined, and the rituals of the earth are established. , as the stems and branches to determine the sun and the moon."
The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe very early, and thus developed a complete and profound stargazing culture. In ancient times, the ancients "observed phenomena and told time" and determined the principles of heavenly stems, earthly branches, yin and yang, five elements, and eight trigrams. Bagua is related to the time and direction of the stems and branches, and they belong to the same system.
The ancient concepts of time and space and yin and yang have developed into a systematic world view, using the unity of opposites of yin and yang, heaven and earth, and hardness and softness to explain all changes in the universe and human society. "Lianshan" and "Guizang" are cultural classics from ancient my country. Some say that "Lianshan" and "Guizang" were not lost, but were renamed Xiantian Bagua and Acquired Bagua, or other names.
It is also said that the whereabouts of "Lianshan" and "Guizang" are unknown after the Han Dynasty, or were absorbed into Confucianism and Taoism as scriptures or lost. These two changes have become an eternal mystery in the field of Chinese culture.