1, Fuxi
Fuxi is the ancestor of human beings in China ancient mythology. He created gossip, which is the basis of Zhouyi. Fuxi was active in ancient times, that is, the Neolithic Age, about 6000 years ago. Fuxi used gossip to describe the relationship and movement among heaven, earth, people and talents, which provided a kind of cosmology and worldview for future generations. Fuxi gossip is also called "innate gossip" because it is the earliest gossip.
2. Zhou Wenwang
Zhou Wenwang was the founding king of the Western Zhou Dynasty. At the end of Shang Dynasty and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, Zhou was imprisoned in Mu Ye (now Shangqiu City, Henan Province). During his stay in Muye, he reformed and developed Fuxi Bagua, created 64 hexagrams, and gave each hexagram a name and symbolic meaning.
3. Confucius
Confucius was the greatest thinker and educator in ancient China and the founder of Confucian school. Confucius explained and commented on Zhou Wenwang's sixty-four hexagrams, and combined with his own thoughts, formed the two most important parts in Zhouyi: Ten Wings and Seal.
Brief introduction of Confucian thought of benevolence and order
The political thought of Confucianism is benevolent governance, kingship and ritual system, and the ideal is great harmony and unity. Its political science mainly expounds the relationship between monarch and minister and the relationship between officials and people. Confucius said "the courtesy of the monarch is loyal to the monarch", Mencius said that "the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the least important", and Xunzi said that "it is a representative proposition of Confucian political science to go against the monarch, shun Yi and his father."
On practical political issues, Confucianism requires both the ruler and the ruled to assume obligations. Theoretically speaking, the ruled has the right to resist the ruler who is not normally obligated. "Good governance" advocates distinguishing between "can't" and "don't do", that is, the difference between "can't" and "don't do". And its "no constant production, no perseverance" also embodies the people-oriented thought.
In international politics, Confucianism advocates "the distinction between Chinese and foreigners." In ancient times, the distinction between China people and foreigners promoted the spread of advanced culture in the Central Plains, but in modern times it became an obstacle to China's modernization.