Chapter 50 Zhouyi: The oldest budget book

For the Chinese, the "Book of Changes" can be regarded as a book of prophecy that is both familiar and unfamiliar, but the way in which the "Book of Changes" operates is precisely beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The name "Book of Changes" first appeared in "Zhou Li". "Yi" is "Tao", the constant truth, even if things change with time and space, the constant Tao remains unchanged. "Xi Ci Zhuan": "Life is called easy." Simply understood, it is the method of gossip calculation that people often say.Confucianism regards "Book of Changes", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" as the "Five Classics".Therefore, "Book of Changes" also called it.It is not only one of the classics handed down by Confucianism, but also a scripture corrected by Confucius himself. In the book, he introduced 64 hexagrams to determine good and bad, as well as the method of guessing good and bad.Therefore, "Book of Changes" is the basic book used for prophecy and divination in Chinese history. Zhouyi is the basic premise.

According to legend, Zhou Wen Wang Jichang is a person who is good at using gossip to calculate everything.If someone breaks the law in the territory of Xiqi, King Wen can tell the crime of this person by pinching his finger. Even if the criminal fled to the ends of the world, he can accurately tell the place where he hides.Even in Xiqi, there was no need for prisons at all. All the prisoners who were captured were placed in the "prison" that King Wen had drawn on the ground, and no prisoner could escape.This is the most original allusion of "painting the ground as a prison".Later, Jiang Shang's apprentice Wu Ji accidentally killed someone while selling firewood, and he personally tasted the feeling of painting the ground as a prison.

Divination and "Book of Changes" originated from the practice of oracle bone divination. At the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, King Wen of Zhou wrote the hexagrams of the sixty-four hexagrams.Later in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' disciples inherited Confucius' discovery of Zhou Yi and wrote "The Book of Changes".When Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, Li Si listed them as medical divination books and survived. "Zhou" means thoughtful and complete, and "Yi" means movement and change without fail. "Book of Changes" was originally called "Simple Tao Te Ching". When Taihao Fuxi created the simple diagram, he arranged the simple symbols—that is, the yin and yang symbols of the current Bagua diagram—into a circle, that is, a circle, which clarifies that Zhou and Yi are the main elements of Jane. component.The Zhou character in Zhouyi was not used in the Zhou Dynasty, but the Zhou Dynasty or Zhou surname continued to use the perfect "Zhou" character in "Simple Tao Te Ching".Based on this, later generations replaced the word "Jian" in "Simple" with "Zhou".Therefore, whether it is called "Simple" or "Book of Changes", the most fundamental point lies in the word "Yi".

The fundamental phenomenon of Yi is the change of everything in nature.Any change in things will definitely produce a result, and this result is called "yixiang". "Seek the fruit of thousands of things, and understand the phenomenon of thousands of thoughts", which shows that "Yin-Yang Talisman" is a detection tool for judgment and reasoning, and a method for detecting the laws of the universe.And the fate of human beings is also included in it. Regarding the speculation and calculation methods of "Book of Changes", it is described in the "Xi Ci" part of the book: "The number of Dayan is fifty, and nine of them are used in forty. Divide into two to form two images, and hang one to form images. Three, turn it to use four as the elephant and four o'clock, it is strange to turn the elephant to leap, and then leap again at the age of five, so pick it again and then hang it." This is the usual divination method of yarrow. Generally speaking, the procedure of fortune-telling is also the same. This is how it works.

According to legend, before the appearance of "Book of Changes", people in the Xia and Shang Dynasties also had their own books "Lianshan" and "Guizang" with their own methods of estimating fate.After thousands of years of precipitation, it is not unreasonable that only "Book of Changes" has been handed down to this day. "Book of Changes" not only fully preserved 64 hexagram images and hexagram words, but also has a set of correct calculation and speculation methods.This set of calculation methods, which is completely comparable to the mathematical measurement method, seems mysterious and mysterious to modern people, but also very wonderful and accurate.

The basic theoretical point of "Book of Changes" is that when people do anything, they are actually in a relatively closed environment, and changes in "quantity" in any aspect will cause a series of butterfly effects.In a specific time and occasion, it is no longer elusive to use scientific methods to calculate the fate of a specific person.Therefore, "Book of Changes" is not only a method of divination, but also a kind of knowledge of righteousness. "Yi Xue" has long been a profound knowledge. "Hanshu Rulin Biography" records: "Confucius read Yi, weaved three unique, and passed it on." For five thousand years, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and there are many Buddhist schools.Many scholars have written a lot of classics, textual research and exegesis, and left more than 3,000 works, which is magnificent.Confucius once said that "those who are good at changing do not occupy themselves", which means that those who have truly learned the essence will not limit their talents to divination. The various philosophies contained in "Book of Changes" have long pushed this book of prophecy to the position of a classic handed down from generation to generation.

In 1930, Pluto, the ninth planet in the solar system, was discovered by American astronomers.But soon, it was proposed that there is still an undiscovered tenth planet in the solar system.At that time, Pluto had just been discovered, and its operation data was not yet accurate, so the detection of the tenth planet had failed and ended. At that time, a Chinese named Liu Zihua was working and studying in France.He decided not to rely on Newton's law of universal gravitation to find the tenth planet.Many people think that Liu Zihua's actions are just fantasies, but in fact, he relied on the corresponding relationship between the various stars in the solar system and the eight trigrams, and then used astronomical parameters to calculate, thus proving that each corresponding hexagram belongs to The average orbital velocity and density of a star are each a secret value.The final result is astonishing. Liu Zihua was the first to calculate that the average orbital speed of the tenth planet is two kilometers per second, the density is 0.424 grams per cubic centimeter, and the average distance from the sun is 7.4 billion kilometers.

According to the principle of naming planets, this newly discovered planet was named "Jupiter".Later, Liu Zihua wrote a thesis entitled "Bagua Cosmology and Modern Astronomy" based on the results he inferred from the "Book of Changes" as the capital for his doctorate.The dissertation was unanimously appreciated, and Liu Zihua officially received the French National Ph.D. in 1938. For the first time, Chinese gossip divination has shocked the world. There are not a few cases that prove the magic of "Book of Changes".The German mathematician Leibniz is the founder of the modern electronic computer binary system, but few people know that he was inspired and helped by the ancient Chinese Tai Chi Eight Diagrams, and he succeeded in one fell swoop.

"What is above the metaphysics is called Tao, and what is below the metaphysics is called utensils." Zhouyi discusses Tao, while modern science studies utensils.There is no distinction between who is superior and who is inferior. Only by combining the two can we make the most accurate inferences about the future that humans can predict.