The Book of Changes has a great influence on China culture, so what is the source of its influence on western culture?

The birth of the Book of Changes marks a summary of our Chinese nation's understanding of the world and itself, which includes the formation of our ancestors' cognitive methods, the determination of viewpoints and the establishment of systems. At the same time, this summary is a new starting point for China people to know more about the world and themselves. For example, the development of Chinese medicine, the development of China Wushu Qigong, the formation of Taoist culture, the emergence of Confucianism, and the ideas and opinions of a hundred schools of thought are all influenced by the Book of Changes.

But today, many people realize that the road of science and technology in modern Europe is not the only development dimension of human culture.

China traditional culture, such as the Book of Changes, represents another development dimension of human culture.

Looking back at the past of human history, in the era of ancient Greek civilization, westerners and orientals in the same historical period, such as China, all had people's explorations about the world at that time. Westerners have two completely different views on the origin of the world. One view is what we call metaphysical theology today, that is, the world is created by God and the world is the product of spirit; This view is the source of the primitive religious thought formed by Christianity; Another view is what we call the simple materialist view today. They believe that the world is material, and the existence of the world is determined by various material factors. The four material elements of "cold, hot, wet and dry" are one of the representative understandings of ancient Greek civilization, and Socrates is a representative historical figure.

What is "cold, hot, dry and wet"? As far as today is concerned, they are the reaction of some "external phenomena" in the world, rather than the internal essence of the world. This is a typical cognitive feature of human cognition in intuitive state.

This intuitive human cognitive activity not only existed in the past in western history, but also occurred in the East at the same time or earlier, such as China. As we know, before the birth of the Book of Changes, there was the theory of "Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" contained in the Book of Changes in ancient China, and "Yin and Yang" refers to the existence of "heaven".

For the western "cold, hot, dry and wet", since "cold, hot, dry and wet" is the material element of the world? (I thought so at that time), then, there is a problem that cannot be ignored in the further understanding of mankind, that is, how do they constitute the movement and change of everything in the world, and how do people understand and grasp this change? Just as people know cows, know how to draw cows and use Niu Gengdi, people know the world for the same cognitive purpose.

This goal was not achieved in ancient Greece, but in the west until the arrival of Galileo Newton. Therefore, in the west, the exploration of the origin of the world, another mainstream force-metaphysical theology, has to seriously influence and help people understand and view the world. It can be imagined that when the Bible, a Christian culture, appears in the West, and materialism can't break through its own cognitive problems, the cognitive concept and survival activities of Christian culture towards westerners will undoubtedly influence and determine the survival activities and history of westerners according to the logic of the Bible and such culture.

Christianity, in the cultural form of the Bible, can not completely determine the unity of people's understanding of the world and their own views and attitudes, nor can it completely defeat the materialists. The reason is that God created the world. How was it created? Who saw this creative process? Who can prove this creation and result? Why can't people do it? According to logic, why can't you find knowledge about the existence of the world in the Bible? Is it hidden? Why hide it? ..... and so on, these questions existing in the Bible of Christian culture cannot be answered by materialists, and even metaphysical theists cannot answer and confirm the above questions.

Therefore, from the arrival of this historical period, westerners are doomed to embark on a historical development path of materialism and idealism. Unless they can break through their own viewpoints and problems in understanding the origin of the world and gain the final knowledge, it will become a historical necessity.

In the historical period when people's understanding of the world and their own universe is in an intuitive state, historical facts have answered people that westerners failed to achieve the goals and requirements of understanding the world life and universe with an intuitive state of understanding, while in China, people achieved the goals and requirements with an intuitive state of understanding, which not only formed the theory of "Yin-Yang and Five Elements". Answered the existence of "heaven" (yin and yang) and the composition of the world (golden water, wood, fire and earth). What is even more rare is that on this basis, a cultural system of the trinity of "heaven, earth and man" has been formed.