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What is the I Ching about?

01 The main idea of the I Ching is the simple and profound laws of nature and the idea of harmony and discernment. The I Ching recognizes and grasps the world from a holistic point of view, and sees man and nature as an organic whole that senses each other, i.e., "the unity of heaven and man".

The I Ching is the primary source of Chinese culture, which means that the I Ching is a carrier of China's 5,000 years of civilization. The core of the I Ching is the famous "Three Easy Sayings," which are simple, easy, and not easy. The I Ching can be regarded as a book summarizing the laws and theories of these predictions. The I Ching covers many fields such as philosophy, politics, life, literature, art and science.

The I Ching itself has three levels of interpretation. The part of modern society and Western culture that recognizes "change", the epistemology that "the only constant in the world is change", is only a process of the I Ching, not the theme of the I Ching. We look at the I Ching from the perspective of change, but what kind of state does the I Ching actually explain to us? What kind of state does the I Ching lead us to? This is the I Ching's "learning" and "use" of a correlation.

The role of the I Ching is to guide people to y observe the phenomena of nature, to recognize the scientific mystery of the unity of heaven and earth, yin and yang complement each other, and to fully grasp the timing of the day, the location, the people and the opportunity to realize the greatest value of life in a better environment.