The Book of Changes is the oldest and most profound classic in China. It is said that Fuxi's remarks were summarized and revised (at the same time, the gossip of Yijing was produced). It is the crystallization of China's 5,000-year-old wisdom culture and is known as "the head of the group classics and the source of the avenue". In ancient times, it was the study of emperors and a required skill for politicians, strategists and businessmen.

The Book of Changes is essentially a book about divination. "Divination" is to predict the development of future events, and The Book of Changes is a book that summarizes the laws and theories of these predictions.

First, the interpretation of the name of the Book of Changes:

The Book of Changes is also commonly called the Book of Changes.

& lt There have been many opinions about the word "Zhou" in Zhouyi:

1. Some people think that "Zhou" means "Everything is ready in Zhou Pu". Because 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams can easily cover everything, the meaning of hexagrams is naturally common in GAI.

2. Some people think that Zhouyi refers to Zhou Dynasty. The reason why the Zhou Dynasty was accepted by ordinary people is that many people think that the word "Zhou" in Zhouyi is the name of the dynasty.

< second > there are many explanations about the word "one", but they can be summarized as follows:

1, the last day and next month will be easy. "Yi is a word, from the moon to the sun, yin and yang." "Easy, the sun and the moon are also." "The sun and the moon are easy, quite just and quite soft."

2, golden bird, big day, life. "Yi is like a bird."

3. Lizards change easily. "Simple, it is a lizard. Lizards change color because of the bad environment, and it is easy to take the meaning of change. "

4. Simplifying complexity is easy. Simple Tao Te Ching: "Simple is simple, and easy is easy. Simple and easy, easy and easy, everything is simple and easy. "

5. Cohesion says: "Life is easy".

6. Marco in Qing Dynasty divided the definition of "Yi" into two types:

(1) Trading: Yin and Yang are cold and hot, so are the upper and lower sides.

(2) Change: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and the cycle is also.

7. In addition, there has always been a saying that "Yi" has three meanings:

(1) Simplicity, that is, although "Yi" is all-encompassing, there is a simplest formula or "pattern" in which all things and phenomena can be explained. That is, "the simplest way."

(2) Change, that is, "change" refers to the way of change, that is, "dialectical method".

(3) Not easy, that is, although "Yi" talks about change, the "Tao" of this change is eternal, that is, it can "respond to changes with constancy".

What does "Yi" mean? Let's make a deeper analysis and discussion from the origin of the word "one" and the development and change of its form.

& lt Third, there are basically two kinds of opinions and opinions on the understanding of the change of the shape of the word "one" and its meaning during the development and change of Chinese characters:

1. The first view is that the word "Yi" is an pictograph.

(1) The form of the word "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like a lizard with its head up.

(2) The word "Yi" on the bronze inscription is more like a lizard.

(3) The form of the word "one" in Biography is similar to that of the bronze inscription.

(4) The word "Yi" is the writing and form of modern regular script.

This view holds that the word "Yi" originally refers to the "lizard" of "lizard" and its original meaning is "change". When the word "Yi" is disguised as "exchange" and extended from "exchange" to "change", then the word "Yi" said by a lizard is written as "lizard". The word "Yi" can also be said to be "Yi".

This is the theoretical basis of the view that "Yi" in the Book of Changes is "Lizard Yi".

2. Another view is that "Yi" is a cognitive word.

(1) The form of the word "Yi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions was originally three points on the left, a long arc in the middle and a semicircle on the right. Or a semicircle on the left, a long arc in the middle and three points on the right. In ancient Chinese, many homophones were written backwards. )

Its formal meaning is interpreted as:

(1), the semicircle is half the sun;

② The long arc in the middle is a cloud blocking the sun;

(3), the next three points are sunlight transmitted from the clouds. (It can also be said that it is cloudy, because the ancients used "three is numerous and nine is extremely numerous." )

Therefore, the original meaning of the word "one" means "it's sunny and cloudy at first sight".

There is often a distinction between "one day" and "non-one day" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. An "easy day" is "good weather" and a "difficult day" is "bad weather".

"One" comes from its original meaning of "seeing at first sight, seeing at first sight and seeing at second sight", and then it is extended to the meanings of "transformation", "exchange", "easier" and "transaction".

(2) The glyph of the word "Yi" on the bronze inscription is developed on the basis of the glyph of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Half the sun and scattered sunlight have not changed, but the long arc of the cloud that covers the sun has been changed into an arc that turns left first and then right. What looks like a "bird's eye view" on the sun is actually the "sunspot" we saw in Japan and China. This shape looks like a bird at first glance, which means that the "Yi" in the Book of Changes is a golden bird, a big sky and life. "Yi is like a bird." The theoretical basis and source of this view. )

(3) The upper part of the word "Yi" in Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty has become a square "Sun", and the arc and three-point sunlight in the lower part have been wrongly changed to "Don't" under the word "Yi".

(4) Therefore, the word "Yi" follows the shape of the word "Yi" in Biography and develops into the "Yi" of official script in Han Dynasty and the "Yi" of modern regular script.

To sum up, I personally agree with "doomsday, easy next month" and "easy to be a word, from month to day, both yin and yang can be used." Statement. This is because:

1, The Book of Changes is a classic work that reveals, discusses and reflects the laws of the development and change of nature (heaven and earth).

The sun and the moon represent heaven and earth, that is, Yin and Yang. This statement is more in line with the composition and arrangement of the eight diagrams in the Book of Changes and its core ideas.

3. No matter what kind of statement or viewpoint, we can't deny the meaning of "change" of "Yi". The number of images of the sun and the moon means alternation and change.

But no matter what kind of explanation, it is good to say that the Book of Changes is about the interaction of yin and yang, which produces everything, "combining rigidity with softness, changing in it".

During the Western Han Dynasty, Confucianism regarded Zhouyi, Poetry, Shu, Li, Yue and Chunqiu as classics, and called them Six Classics. So the Book of Changes is also called the Book of Changes.

& lt〈 < 4 > explanation of the word "Jing":

The origin and development of the word 1,, "Jing";

The word "Jing" was originally a hieroglyph, and there was no "Yi" next to it, only "Ji".

(1) The lower part of the word "Ji" in the bronze inscription is the word "I" used to support the thread when weaving, and the three curves in the upper part are the shape of "Jing" when weaving.

(2) In Biography, in order to make the meaning of "Jing" more clear, the ideographic part "Jing" was added to its left, so the word "Jing" became a pictophonetic word with left form and right sound.

Note: "Mi" and "Zi" should be read as (mρ) instead of (sρ). Because people mistakenly think that "rice" and "company" are the same, they also habitually pronounce "rice".

"Zhu" is an pictograph.

A. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "Zi" is like a handful of lemon.

B, there is the word "Yi" in the bronze inscription, and its form is basically the same as that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

C, in Biography, its shape is basically the same as that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen.

D. "Zi" is the writing method of regular script.

"Zhu" is the form of simplified characters.

Xu Kai, a scholar who studied Shuo Wen Jie Zi in Song Dynasty, said: "Silkworms spit' suddenly' and' silk'; Hey, it's already five o'clock. "

It can be seen that the "child" is a tiny silk (half silk).

The original meaning of the word "Zi" is "filament".

Shuowen: "Long, thin line also. Like a bundle of silk. "

(3) "Jing" is the writing method of regular script.

(4) "Jing" is a simplified word.

2. Interpretation of the word "Jing":

(1) The original meaning of the word "warp" refers to the longitudinal thread of textile, as opposed to "weft".

"Wen Xin Diao Long: Emotion": "Change to weft, and then speak smoothly." The general idea is that the warp is positive and the weft can be achieved; Only when the content of the article is determined can the text be fluent.

(2) Later, the meaning of "latitude and longitude" was extended to the meaning of north and south, and the north and south were called "classics"; Something is called "weft".

"Examination: Craftsman": "Nine Classics and Nine Wefts in Junior High School."

(3) Because there is no "warp", there is no "weft". So "essence" is the main thing. The main channels of qi and blood in human body are also called meridians, such as meridians and meridians.

(4) In the same way, it is precisely because of the importance of "classics" that books that record the highest ideological and moral standards of a certain class, traditional authoritative works, or books that preach religious teachings are called "classics" and "classics".

"Tang Shu": "After the four parts, there are A, B, C and D, and Part A is the classics." That is to say, in the ancient books catalogue, according to the order of A, B, C and D, the books in Part A are all classics.

5], the ancient "diameter".

..... and so on.

3. Therefore, the meaning of the word "Jing" in the Book of Changes should include:

(1) Pass the word "Dao", path, approach road, gate diameter. That is, the method of identifying, reflecting, revealing and mastering the trajectory and law of things' development and change.

(2) the trajectory and law of the development and change of things.

(3) Understanding, experience and experience of the development and change of things.

(4) The main and important ideological theories and classic works that discuss the development and change of things.