Chinese traditional culture, what is the I Ching?

The I Ching

What you don't know about the I Ching Knowledge of daily use but do not know, the life of those who I Ching is the source of the Great Dao, the first of the group of scriptures. Its influence on later generations is not comparable to any one doctrine.

Faced with the I Ching, most of the time our first reaction is that it is far away from us, and it is a difficult to read book. There is no denying that we usually think that the I Ching is far away from us. But the fact is that in life we use the I Ching without knowing it.

The I Ching was written before the Zhou Dynasty, and its influence on modern life is beyond our imagination. The following will list a few examples of life, so that you can understand the I Ching in life.

One of the "nine and a half" from the "I Ching" Qian Gua: "Nine and a half, the Dragon in the sky, Lee see adults. Nine refers to the Yang lines, five refers to the fifth line. Zhou Yi", the first hexagram is the dry hexagram. Dry the sky, dry book of bright hexagrams also became a symbol of the emperor's hexagrams. Qian Gua consists of six yang lines, is the image of the extreme Yang, extremely prosperous, and nine five usually refers to the emperor, the emperor.

Two, gossip gossip is the I Ching eight basic graphics. "Trigrams, hanging also", gossip is to hang out the graphics, arranged out of the meaning. There is a saying: "Taiji born two meters, two meters born four elephants, four elephants born gossip." It can be seen, gossip contains everything everything. In the process of use, the meaning of the word gossip gradually evolved into all over the right and wrong, rap.

Three, change the trigrams "change the trigrams" word, refers to have been said, has been set down the matter of temporary change. Then in ancient times, the significance of the change of fortune on the state Liang wide different. Ancient people will be used in divination gossip, one of the links is to change one of the lines, then the entire trigram changed. The result of the things divined will become another result.

Four, change "I Ching - Department of Rhetoric," said: "Yi" poor is change, change is through, through is long."