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Is Zhou Yi used for fortune-telling?

Fantasy fortune-telling is a kind of using personal information, such as face and hand lines, the eight characters of birth, name strokes, etc. with the magic to predict or judge the fate of fortune and seek guidance for the behavior of the abbreviation of fortune-telling.

"Zhouyi" is "I Ching", "one of the three Yi" (Liu Xiang school book in the early Han Dynasty, "three Yi" still exists, the whereabouts of the Han Dynasty is unknown), is one of the traditional classics, according to legend, is the king of the Zhou Dynasty was imprisoned in Anyang (Paili), the contents of which include the "Jing" and "Biography" of the two parts. The Jing consists of 64 hexagrams and 384 lines, with the hexagrams and lines having their own descriptions (hexagrams and lines), which are used for divination. It is worth noting that 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 and yang school that spoke of yin and yang and taiji. The Chuan contains seven texts*** ten articles explaining the trigrams and lines, collectively known as the Ten Wings.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese academics totaled in the Yijing one, from Fuxi's painting to the Laozi out of the customs after the time, the official school began to gradually evolve into a private private school. Yijing before and after the cause, the development of incremental changes, a hundred schools of thought, Yijing is followed by the occurrence of differentiation. Since Confucius praised easy, "Zhouyi" by the Confucianism as the sacred text of Confucianism, the first of the six sutras, and outside the Confucianism. "There are two branches of Yijing, and the development of the Confucian Yi side by side: one is the old force still exists divination Yi; the other is Laozi's Taoist Yi. Therefore, since Confucius praised Yi, Chinese Yijing began to be divided into three branches."

The General Catalogue of the Siku Quanshu classifies the history of Yijing into "two schools and six sects". The two schools of thought are the School of Elephant and Math and the School of Righteousness; the six sects are the Divination Sect, the praying Sect, the Creation Sect, the Laozhuang Sect, the Confucian Sect, and the Historical 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 an extremely profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years. In the pre-Qin period, there were specialists in explaining the I Ching.

The I Ching is the first of the group of scriptures, and the book of education.