What is the influence of the Zhouyi on Chinese Mandarin?

The I Ching is the source of Chinese culture, although it is a Confucian classic, but on the medical, military, Taoism, yin and yang, legal, vertical and horizontal, and so on, have a great influence.

Chinese culture is like a big tree, a few classics, generations of people to note that the successive generations continue to enrich, but not bad chaos, is a very interesting phenomenon.

For the problems mentioned above, to give an example, Yang Xiong is considered a scribe, he followed the system of the I Ching, wrote a "Taixuan Jing", nine hundred and ninety-one zan, corresponding to the "Yi" of the eight hundred and eighty-sixty-four hexagrams, a bit of metaphysical flavor.

So, each of the various cultural schools will draw from the I Ching to elaborate their own views and ideas. The most influential, of course, were the soothsayers.

First of all, I wrote a general introduction, stating that its influence on traditional Chinese culture is extremely far-reaching and enormous

Again, I, the influence of Taoism, like yin and yang, gossip, and so on, can be discussed

Secondly, the influence of Confucianism, the I Ching is listed as one of the five Confucian classics for Confucianism must be studied for the Confucian classics, Confucius for the note, etc.

Thirdly, the influence on the scholars and the general public. So that the scholar according to the I Ching exposed a lot of truth for the code of conduct, such as dry hanging, nine five flying dragons in the sky, six nine just can not be held, so that the Shi know the fast-flowing courage to retreat, such as humility hexagrams are good hexagrams lines, so the Shi know the humility and so on

four, the impact on the ordinary people, such as fortune-telling hexagrams lines, for example, our marriage, funeral, daily life of a lot of truth is from the I Ching out of the

five, China's neighboring countries

Questioner's follow-up 2010-08-31 14:08

The impact on the world culture can be more specific Thank you for the team's additions 2010-08-31 14:13 The Zhouyi is one of the oldest cultural texts in China and has always been listed as one of the "Five Classics" and "The Book of Changes". Zhou Yi is one of the oldest cultural texts in China, and has always been listed as the first of the "Five Classics". For more than three thousand years, it has been radiating the light of wisdom in the history of Chinese culture, and has had a wide influence in the eastern countries, and has been increasingly valued in the western world. In recent years, both at home and abroad, have set off a fervor to study the Zhou Yi. It is unique in the world's cultural history that an ancient cultural text has such a lasting power. However, the value of Zhouyi in society is very inconsistent, and there is a need to clarify it.

The Zhouyi is a valuable classic of the ancient world

Since the Han Dynasty, the I Ching has been included in the "Five Classics", which played an important role in the development of ancient political thought. Throughout the ages, the wise rulers and the wise men and women of the world have studied it carefully, learning from it the principles and principles of governing the country, stabilizing the society, developing the economy, and improving the level of morality and ideology.

The Zhouyi is a philosophical work full of dialectical wisdom

The Zhouyi has been taught every year since the founding of the nation in university philosophy classes. Mr. Feng Youlan, a professor at Peking University, said the book is a dialectical "algebra of the universe". The German philosopher Hegel praised it, saying: "The I Ching represents the wisdom of the Chinese people". The Zhouyi indeed contains quite rich and profound ideas of simple dialectics. The most famous philosophical proposition of the Book of Changes is "one yin and one yang is called the Way". Zhouyi" of the word "easy", mainly the meaning of change, it is a book on the universe and human society of the law of change, is the most important source of ancient dialectical thinking, it is the yin and yang of this pair of categories as the center of its philosophical system of the category, "the establishment of the way of the sky, said that the yin and the yang; the establishment of the way of the earth, said that the soft and the hard; the establishment of people The way of heaven, said yin and yang; the way of earth, said soft and hard; the way of man, said benevolence and righteousness". Heaven and earth and people do not contain a yin and yang contradictory sides, "yin and yang and change up", "just and soft push each other to produce changes", all things are not in constant motion in the process of change, the entire universe is flowing, raw and endless change, not a moment to stop! What is more important is that "Zhou Yi" points out: the root cause of the infinite changes in the universe is not from the outside of the world, not by the supernatural gods, but in the interior of things, in its inherent contradiction of yin and yang, which is the inner motive of the change of things.

"Zhouyi" against the so-called "heaven is unchanged, Tao is also unchanged" metaphysical world view, it is the world of change, has never held a positive attitude of affirmation, pointed out that: "heaven and earth's great virtue is said to be born," "Shengde! The great virtue of heaven and earth is birth" and "The great virtue of greatness is to be carried forward! The rich is called Daiye, the new day is called Shengde, the birth is called Yi." According to Zhou Yi, the whole universe is not static, but a new stream of "Dahua". In line with this cosmic concept of endless growth, the Zhou Yi exhorts people to establish a philosophy of life of "self-improvement" to guide people's political practice. It believes that man is not inactive in the face of changes in nature and society; on the contrary, he should play a dynamic role in transforming nature and society. In the change of objective things, can not stick to the old rules, follow the old chapters, "can not be for the canonical, only the change is appropriate". Zhou Yi" emphasizes "see a few and do", that is, people should be good at observing the movement of things, see the signs, grasp the most advantageous time, take the most courageous action, "the gentleman see a few and do, do not wait for the end of the day. Zhou Yi" warns people not to overdo everything, "loss but not already will benefit", "benefit but not already will decide", always think of "things will go against the grain" principle, to prevent We should always think of the principle of "what goes around comes around" to prevent the situation of "hyperactive dragon having regrets". "The word "dragon" is also, know the advance and do not know the retreat, know the gain and do not know the loss, know the survival and do not know the death. "Hyper dragon has remorse, the disaster of poverty". That is to say, advancement and retreat, gain and loss, survival and death, can all be transformed into each other, and one cannot only see the momentary advancement, gain and survival, but must always be on guard against moving towards their opposite, i.e., retreat and loss. Death. Doing things to the extreme, can not help but cause adverse consequences. The simple dialectical thinking of the Zhouyi has been emphasized by philosophers of all times, and it has a prominent position in the history of Chinese dialectics. Many philosophers, thinkers and scientists have drawn ideological nourishment from the Zhouyi to exercise their dialectical thinking methods.

The Zhouyi is a golden key that opens the door to the labyrinth of the universe

The thought of the Zhouyi is inextricably linked with the development of science and technology in ancient China. Zhouyi itself is not a work of natural science, but it did provide ancient scientists with a superb ideological weapon for the study of nature and the understanding of nature. Before the 16th century, China's ancient level of development of science and technology, far ahead of the West, which once caused the famous scientist Einstein's "surprise". He said: the development of modern natural science in the West, mainly due to the scientists to the power of two great treasures, one is to Euclid's geometry as the representative of the formal logic of thought; one is to Bacon as the representative of the modern scientific experimental methods. Einstein but said, these two magic weapons, the ancient Chinese sages obviously do not have, however, it is worth the surprise that Western scientists to make the achievement, there are a lot of ancient Chinese scientists have long been done out. What is the reason for this? One of the reasons is that the ancient scientists studied "Zhouyi" since they were young, and mastered a set of ancient Western scientists have not mastered a set of a golden key to open the door of the labyrinth of the universe. Therefore, ancient Chinese scientists were able to decipher many mysteries of the universe earlier and faster. The philosophical thought of "Zhouyi" provided ancient Chinese scientists with advanced philosophical worldviews as the guiding principles for them to explore the mysteries of the universe and life, such as the concept of cosmic development that is popular in the world and new in the world of birth, the idea of paradoxical transformation that everything changes and the opposite is inevitable in the extreme of things, the principle of materialism that is the principle of materialism that is the best of all materialism, the principle of subjective initiative that "praises the fertilization of heaven and earth" and the principle of "the development of the universe". "This philosophical worldview is much more advanced than that of the Western Chinese philosophers. This philosophical worldview is obviously superior to the Western medieval philosophy. More importantly, Zhou Yi also provides a set of unique pictorial mode of thinking for scientific research, which is simply not available in Western culture. The pictorial mode of thinking of the Yi school, which prominently reflects the characteristics of oriental thinking, is still fascinating today. Elephant number thinking method, put simply, there are some features:

One, take the elephant than class, is the basic features of the elephant number thinking, from thinking with the help of "trigrams" which seems to be rich in the characteristics of image thinking; from the purpose of taking the elephant in the "class", it has the logic, the logic, the logic, the logic, the logic, the logic, the logic, the logic. "In terms of, it has the characteristics of logical thinking, therefore, take the image than class is the image of thinking and logical thinking induced by each other's special thinking methods.

Second, the symmetry of yin and yang, and the reconciliation of rigidity and flexibility are the guidelines for the thinking of the image and number. A yin and a yang, a rigid and a soft, opposite, symmetrical and complementary, constituting the unity and harmony of the universe, this symmetry and coordination principle, in traditional medicine, pharmacy, prescription science has been widely used, qigong, martial arts, and even calligraphy, art, have clever performance, in the traditional architectural structure, the layout of the gardens, the use of the best.

Three, holistic thinking, reflecting the rational kernel of hieroglyphic thinking. Yi science will be the human body small universe and the natural universe as an organic unity of the whole, treating each specific thing, first of all, from all different angles, different aspects to consider it and its related things of the overall relationship of the mutual constraints, this method of thinking, in fact, contains a primitive systematic thinking. Traditional medicine can be said to be holistic medicine, which uses holistic diagnosis and holistic treatment methods, from the open to the balanced development of the overall mechanism, is its essence.

Four, emphasizing the sequence, focusing on rhythm, is the outstanding advantages of the elephant number thinking. Yi science has never paid attention to the natural world from the celestial body as small as the movement of grass and trees in the development of the cycle. Advocates of the "heaven and heaven is not contrary to the day, after the day and by the time of day", violation of the time of day, people will be punished by nature. Song Dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi, in the "Zhouyi" volume attached to the Hetu, Luoshu, Fuxi gossip, Wen Wang gossip, 64 hexagrams square map, round map, etc., these Yi diagrams reflect the characteristics of the divine number of elephant thinking methodology, which still attracts the attention of scientists at home and abroad. Chinese-American scholars Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao praised since not to mention the originator of modern computers, Leibniz, has long claimed that he created the principle of binary and the "I Chart" (referring to the sixty-four hexagrams round figure) "completely consistent", the famous quantum physicist Bohr more yin and yang in the I Ching taijitu design in the Danish king awarded him the medal. This shows that the method of thinking reflected in the Tai Chi diagram is greatly respected by Western scientists.