What are the two parts of Zhou Yi? Is it the Yijing and the Yishu?

The Zhouyi, or the Book of Changes, is one of the traditional classics, rumored to have been written by Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou, and includes two parts, the Jing and the Chuan. The "Jing" is mainly sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines, hexagrams and lines have their own instructions (hexagrams, lines), as a divination. The concepts of yin and yang and taiji were not introduced in the Zhouyi, and it was the Yi Chuan that was influenced by the Taoists and the Yin-Yang School that spoke of yin and yang and taiji. The "Biography" contains seven texts*** ten articles explaining the trigrams and lines, collectively known as the "Ten Wings", which are said to have been written by Confucius.

Spring and Autumn period, the official school began to gradually evolve into a private private school. Yi science before and after the cause, the development of change, a hundred schools of thought, Yi science is followed by the occurrence of differentiation. Since Confucius praised the Yi, "Zhou Yi" was regarded as the sacred text of Confucianism, the first of the six sutras. Outside of the Confucianism, there are two branches of Yijing and the development of the Confucian Yi side by side: one for the old forces still exist in the divination of Yi; the other for the Laozi's Taoism Yi, Yijing began to be divided into three branches.

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The Siku Quanshu General Catalog divides the history of Yijing into "two schools and six sects". The two schools, that is, the School of Elephant and Mathematics and the School of Righteousness; the six sects, one for divination, two for pray, three for the creation of the Sect, four for the Laozhuang Sect, five for the Confucian Sect, and six for the history of the Sect.

The Zhouyi is the theoretical root of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in traditional Chinese thought and culture, and is the crystallization of the thoughts and wisdom of the ancient Han people, known as "the source of the Great Dao". It is extremely rich in content and has had a profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years.