Who are the authors of "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi"?

"Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi" have been lost, and together with "Zhouyi" they are known as the "I Ching"

Overview of the I Ching

Yi is change, and Ching is the method (or classic). I.e., the scriptures that expound on change (the Jing of Yi), the I Ching is a rigorous philosophical work and can be used as an art of divination within the context of science. It is just very deep and difficult to understand, there will be a multitude of far-fetched.

The I Ching is the oldest canon of Chinese culture and the premier masterpiece of traditional Chinese culture. Scholars of the orthodox school of the past generations, with many different words to praise it, generally speaking, it is respected as "the first of the group of scriptures", to the supreme respect, on the contrary, that is only an ancient book of divination, close to the false words of the witches and wizards, humble and insignificant. Only after the transmission of Confucius, "Zhou Yi", plus many scholars through the ages, only later generations of blind obedience and veneration. Even more, since the modern era, there are many similarly frivolous ridicule Undeniably, the "I Ching" was originally the ancient divination scholarship, but to the Shang and Zhou, after the finishing and commentary of the King of Wen, it is from the scope of divination, into the academic field of "between man and nature", and thus the "Book of Zhouyi" has become the foundation of Chinese humanistic culture. It is an undeniable fact that since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it has been studied and described by Confucius, and at the same time, it has been scattered as the source of the academic thinking of all the schools of thought.

Therefore, if you want to study Chinese culture, whether it is the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring States period of Confucianism, Taoism, ink and the hundred schools, and even after the Tang and Song Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and other schools of thought, not from the "I Ching" research, there will be the concept of forgetting one's ancestors.

The I Ching and the three "Yi"

Usually when we mention the I Ching, we naturally know that it refers to the book "Zhou Yi". Because Chinese culture, since Confucius deleted "Poetry", "Book", "Rites", "Music" and the preparation of the history of Lu "Spring and Autumn", crowned with the "Zhou Yi" book, collectively known as the six classics (after the loss of the "music" of the remaining books that is: "Poetry," "Book", "Rites", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn" and known as the five classics), the "Book of Changes" has become the head of the six classics. The Jing is the great guideline of heaven and earth and the great channel of life. Called "Zhou Yi" and other books for the six scriptures, is to show that after Confucius has been organized by the six books, it is the traditional Chinese culture, including the "heaven and mankind," all the learning of the big principles, the big law.　　

Since the Qin and Han, the study of Yijing, for the book named "I Ching" the connotation of the problem, there are "three easy" said the differences and similarities appeared.

First: belonging to the theory of the orthodox Confucianism after the Qin and Han, according to the concept of the book "Yi Wei Qian Chisel degree", that the connotation of "easy", including three meanings:

(a) easy. It means simple and easy. Because the natural laws of heaven and earth are originally that simple and easy.

(ii) Change. It is believed that all things in heaven and earth, as well as human beings, are in the process of interactive change at any time, which is never-ending. But the law of this change has its own inevitable guidelines to follow, not chaotic change.

(3) Not easy. All things in heaven and earth, as well as human beings, are always in the midst of intricate, causal changes, but the changes are phenomenal. But what can be changed is not easy, it is simple.

Second: belonging to the Qin and Han Confucian and Taoist scholars after the concept of common, according to the "Zhouli - Dabu chapter" for the meaning of the "three easy", refers to the ancient times until the early Zhou Dynasty between the "I Ching" academic thinking, is divided into three systems: (a) "Lianshan Yi". (ii) The "Guizang Yi". (C) "Zhou Yi".

It is said that the Yi of the Fu Xi era is "Lianshan Yi", starting with Burgundy hexagrams, symbolizing that "everything is hidden in it". It means that human culture and civilization are dominated by the earth, and that everything is born in the earth, and ultimately hidden in the earth.

The beginning of humanistic culture in the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhouyi is now a treasure trove, starting with the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun, which represent the relationship between heaven and earth, and the study of "heaven and mankind".

But Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, believed that the Yi of the Xia Dynasty was "Lianshan" (so "Lianshan Yi" is also known as "Xia Yi"), and the Yi of the Yin Dynasty was "Guizang" (also known as "Yin Yi"). Of course, the Zhou Dynasty's Yijing is the Zhou Yi.

There is another theory: that the ancient Shennong's lineage name "Lianshan clan", also known as "Lishan clan". The so-called "Lianshan", is "Lishan" sound different. The Yellow Emperor's lineage was also known as the "Guizang Clan". Lianshan Yi" is said to be made by Mi play; "Guizang Yi" is said to be made by Emperor Xuanyuan.

Therefore, the two say, and there are differences and similarities between the issues present. If you think that the Xia dynasty is the worship of the Yi science is the "Lianshan Yi", Yin dynasty is the worship of the Yi science is the "return to the Tibetan Yi", to the Zhou dynasty, after the organization of the king, only constitute the "Zhou Yi" system of Yi science, then the two divergent views, there is not much difference.

But to the point of view of the archaeologists, "Yi Wei Qian chiseled degree" and "Zhouli - Dabu chapter" of the two literature, should have doubtful places. The Chinese government has also been trying to make a decision on how to handle the situation, but it has not done so yet. This concept is not entirely unreasonable, and indeed worth studying and considering.

However, scholars after the two Han Dynasty, rigidly discarded the concept of "Zhouli - Dabu" and did not believe in it, and preferred to use the more problematic "Yi Wei Qian Chiseledu" that "simple, changeable, and not easy" as a natural connotation of the science of Yijing, which is the basis of the later generations of Confucianism to say "Yi". This is the basis of the later Confucian theory of "Yi". That is to disregard the evidence, but only take the so-called "three easy" principle of internal meaning, and use it to illustrate the main points of the science of Yi.

In addition, on the "Lianshan", "to hide", "Zhouyi" three easy to say, in the Han Wei after the academic thinking of Taoism, and then occurred two concepts.

(1) The idea that the two systems of Yi, Lianshan and Guizang, have long been lost.

(2) It is quite reasonable to think that after Han and Wei, the image and number of Yijing is the legacy of Lianshan and Guizang. And "Lianshan", "return to the hidden" of the essence of the science of Yi, has indeed become the Qin and Han after the Taoist academic thought of the backbone. Such as the twelve Pai Gua said, is to "return to the collection" of the Kun Gua is the main. Gua gas from the Fu said, is to Burgundy half of the image for the use.

In March 1993, jiangling county, hubei province, jingzhou town ying north village (now jingzhou city ying town ying north village) wangjia tai fifteen qin tomb unearthed a number of bamboo slips, which has the "return to the collection! In August 2000, at the Second International Symposium on Simplified Palm - "International Symposium on Newly Released Simplified Palm" held at Peking University, Mr. Wang Mingqin of the Jingzhou Museum published an article entitled "Overview of the Bamboo Slips in the Qin Tomb of Wangjiatai", which disclosed some of the original interpretations of the Guizang. The collection of papers of this symposium was officially published in December 2004, i.e. Ailan and Xingwen, editors: Research on Newly Published Simplified Palm Slips, December 2004 edition of the Cultural Relics Publishing House. The unearthing of the bamboo slip "Guizang" from the Qin Tomb in Wangjiadai and the public release of its interpretation are significant events in the history of Yi, and many difficult problems in the field of Yi can be solved by this.

Wangjiatai Qin Tomb bamboo slips "return to the Tibetan" full solution http://www.bamboosilk.org/admin3/2007/zhuxingguo008.htm

Guizhou Daily News (Zeng Guangchao) yesterday, Dushan County, a 78-year-old man Xie Zhaohai came to the provincial capital of Guiyang, Guizhou Provincial Library of Nationalities to donate a family of Lianshan Yi, a strange book of the water tribe that has been passed down for seven generations. It is said that there have been Guangzhou merchants willing to pay 200,000 yuan to buy this ancient book, but the old man was not moved, but resolutely chose to donate it to the country.

The Lianshan Yi has not yet been translated into Chinese characters.

The three Yi books come from the same system.

Family finds 'water book' may be closely linked to Zhou Yi

Experts in Guizhou's water book have found that the "water book" still used by China's water tribes may be closely linked to Zhou Yi. Experts in the deciphering of an early Northern Song Dynasty, Henan Lin Ru kiln eight lotus petals ceramic note bowl on the 10 symbols found that Mr. water book in accordance with the water tribe of the "Lianshan Yi" trigrams, deciphered the bowl is a section of the rise and fall of the Northern Song Dynasty history of the bowl. From the water book Mr. trigrams, and gossip I Ching diagram is completely consistent. Cracked out of the Northern Song Dynasty historical facts, by comparison with the history books, also fully consistent. Experts believe that the aquatic "Lianshan Yi" is likely to be the world that has long been lost in the "I Ching" in a book that is the Xia Dynasty "Lianshan".