The sky is respected and the earth is humble, and the universe is fixed; the high and the low, the high and the low; the movement and the stillness are constant, and the rigidity and softness are broken; carry on. That's why hardness and softness rub against each other, eight trigrams shake each other, drumming it with thunder and shaking it, moistening it with wind and rain; the sun and the moon move, one cold and one hot. Qiandao becomes a man, Kun Dao becomes a woman, Qian knows the beginning, and Kun makes things. Doing is easy to know, and Kun is simple and capable.If it is easy, it is easy to know; if it is simple, it is easy to follow; if it is easy to know, you will have relatives; if you are easy to follow, you will have merit; if you have relatives, you will last long; Reasonable!The reason of the world is obtained, and the place is in it.

The main content of Yi is divided into three aspects, namely reason, image, and number. We have already mentioned () that the real realm of Yi lies in image and number-hexagram image, hexagram number, and number also includes yin and yang, and five elements.If you really want to study it, you must memorize the eight trigrams and the eight eight sixty-four hexagrams.If you don't memorize it well, and you don't understand the basic principles of elephant and number, it will be very difficult to study in the future, which means it is useless.You are all colleagues, and it is not convenient for you to be tested. If you want me to really attend the class, I am very strict.Everyone has to take a face-to-face test and memorize it on the spot. This is our old-fashioned teaching method.This method is embarrassing for everyone to use, but I still want to tell you the traditional education method, I hope everyone pays attention.

What is Gua?What is Yao?If you don't understand clearly, it is useless to listen to the Book of Changes.I hope that everyone will not be like watching the excitement or listening to singers sing, then it will be meaningless.I am very serious to tell you today that some of you are not clear about the basic laws of objects, numbers, hexagrams, lines, and the principles of yin and yang. Please review what we have said in the past. This will benefit your future study. A lot of convenience. If we want to study, we must first understand Confucius' "Biography", which is very important.The number of images is the set of things in our general concept of knowing astronomy at the top, geography at the bottom, and even fortune-telling and fortune-telling.It is not easy to know that set of things. You must have a real understanding of the image and number, and you must also understand ancient Chinese astronomy, etc., before you have any hope.It takes almost decades of reading, thinking, and research.It is not just based on memory, some things must be thought and explored by one's own intelligence.It is not a rigid method, and it can be applied to any aspect.But if you want to be proficient, you must start with a rigid method, and you must understand the various laws of elephant and number.

In the future, we will go further to tell you about Xiangshu and Yili. For our preliminary research today, we will first tell you the ancient methods.Everyone must know that after passing the study of "Xi Ci" up and down, you can get the key to your own study of image and number. This is the first point.The second point is that after mastering the "Xi Ci", you will have a real understanding of the foundation of Chinese culture.The third point is that Confucius' philosophical thought and the source of all his theories and doctrines have also been clarified. Is it informatics?

Today we are going to study the "Xi Ci" and upload it, or use the traditional method; like teaching Chinese philosophy, I will study it with you.Speaking of this, I thought of a classmate who showed me a copy of "Zhou Yi Tong Lun" yesterday.This book is told by mainland scholars with a very peculiar point of view, and they think it is an information science.Their main point of view is that the author was captured by the enemy at that time, and drew many symbols in order to ask for help from the outside, so they believe that the eight, eight, sixty-four hexagrams are the method the author used to communicate with the outside in order to ask for help.This statement has been around for seventy or eighty years.This kind of statement is terrible, and it beats Chinese culture to pieces.

We still study from the standpoint of Chinese culture today. Let’s think that the "Xi Ci" is the report of Confucius' research experience, which is the same as the ancients' report on the so-called Ten Wings (the ten wings are the ten kinds of experience reports of Confucius' research). Same opinion.The Ten Wings have a great relationship with Chinese culture. If everyone understands this aspect, it can be said that they have roughly understood the principles of the Four Books and Five Classics. Basically, the text of "Biography" is also very simple and easy to understand.If you want to study ancient Chinese and write good articles, you must first study Confucius' articles.If we talk about the history of literature, I think "Biography" is first-rate literature.For example, Laozi, Zhuangzi, and even Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" are all systems of southern culture.In ancient times, our culture was not unified and different from place to place.The so-called Qilu culture refers to the Confucian and Mencius cultural system, and they are also ancient literary masters.If you want to know the articles of Confucius and Mencius, it is not enough to just read "Mencius", "Great Learning", and "The Doctrine of the Mean". You also need to read "Xi Ci", its writing is very clever, and most people often ignore it.

The sky is respected and the earth is humble, and the universe is fixed; the high and the low, the high and the low; the movement and the stillness are constant, and the rigidity and softness are broken; carry on. Judging from the text, this paragraph is very easy for everyone to understand, and it is very simple.But, do you really understand?In my point of view, I'm afraid I'm still a million miles away, or I can say I don't understand it at all.More than ten years ago, a classmate said: We study China, but we can’t understand it no matter how we read it. Now I read a foreigner’s translation, and I can understand it at a glance.I said very good!You are Chinese, and I am also Chinese. We have been studying our own culture for decades, but we still don’t understand it. After studying English for a few years, and then reading English translated by foreigners, we really understand. The Chinese who don't understand it when they are young are really stupid!It seems that the person who said these words is really smart, and so are the foreigners. If you really understand this, then don’t call it. I don’t know what to call it.

Do you know what this means?It is impossible for people with a different cultural system from ours to study our other cultural system and reach a very high level of understanding and realm, and understand it easily. We Chinese seldom read Chinese books. After reading books all our lives, we still can’t even write Chinese articles.This is honest.So we learn our own culture and write our own characters well, but we still can’t do it. It’s not that simple for a foreigner with an English background to learn it all at once. The sky is respected and the earth is humble, and the universe is fixed.The text is very simple, this is the experience of Confucius' research.

Let's learn, everyone should know, now we call it "Book of Changes", "Book of Changes" was compiled by King Wen of Zhou; there are two other kinds, namely "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi".These three volumes are collectively referred to as "Three Changes".Lianshan and Guizang are said to have disappeared and been lost, but we can still see some from Xiangshu.Everyone should study "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi". There is a book called "Yi Wei", which is simple and clear.There is also a book called "Guan Lang Yi Zhuan", or you can see a little bit of it.But having said that, it is not easy to actually study it, and it is not easy for everyone to understand it.