What kind of book is the Book of Changes?

The Book of Changes is an ancient classic that explains the changes of everything in the world and a profound dialectical philosophical work. Including Lianshan, Ghost Stories and Zhouyi, of which Lianshan and Ghost Stories have been lost and only Zhouyi exists in the world.

The Book of Changes contains simple and profound dialectical thoughts on the harmony of natural laws and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years. He understands and grasps the world from the perspective of holism, and regards man and nature as an organic whole that is mutually inductive, that is, "the unity of man and nature".

The Book of Changes has long been used as a "soothsayer". "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.

Specific meaning:

The Book of Changes holds that everything in the world is in an endless development, and expounds this "natural" law. This law reveals the characteristics of the whole universe, including the attributes of everything in the world. Yi means, firstly, change, secondly, simplicity, thirdly, difficulty.

Change refers to the way of change, and everything is always changing. Simple, one yin and one yang, including all kinds of things; Every day, there is land, top and bottom, front and back, all of which are complementary and unified.

It's not easy. Although things in the world are complicated and changeable, one thing will never change, and that is the law. Heaven and earth run, the four seasons rotate, cold and summer alternate, Leng Xia is hot in winter, the monthly profit and loss, the sun is biased, and the extremes will be reversed. This is the law.

Zhouyi is an ancient philosophical work of China, which demonstrates and describes the operating law of things based on the dualism of Yin and Yang. It classifies the characters of all things in the world and heavenly stems and earthly branches's Five Elements Theory, even accurate enough to predict the future development of things.

Some people directly refer to the Book of Changes as the Book of Changes. There are eight hexagrams in the Book of Changes: Gangua, Kungua, Zhengua, Gengua, Ligua, Kangua, Dugua and Yungua.