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Zhouyi can predict divination. What is its principle?

I believe that people who have studied Zhouyi basically know that there is a saying that this book pays attention to the law of heaven and earth. And there is a saying that is accepted by more people, that is, Zhouyi is a book of divination and prophecy. But the most comprehensive description is that the Book of Changes records all the laws of nature in the form of sixty-four hexagrams, and these laws of nature are eternal, so people can make divination according to the development of things and infer the development of things according to those laws, which is what we call prediction.

Zhouyi is called the source of the avenue because it tells the story of "heaven", "Tao" and "man". There is a famous saying that I believe everyone has heard that "the sky is strong, the gentleman strives for self-improvement, the land is vast, and the gentleman is virtuous." This sentence means that life is alive and the world is vast, and it is a true gentleman. The book also uses sixty-four hexagrams to tell people all kinds of things between heaven and earth.

Explain to people ethics and ways of doing things, as well as Zen about the world and the sun and the moon. Yin and Yang also show that everything is divided into Yin and Yang, just as people divide good people and bad people. So the first lesson in the book is that people should use the virtue of heaven and earth to restrain the bad side and teach us to learn everything in heaven and earth. To see the Book of Changes, we must first know that the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes are not the same thing. It was written by China sages to explore the origin of the world. I believe everyone has heard of the myth that Pangu created the world. This fairy tale comes from the Book of Changes.

According to this myth, people in ancient times believed that the universe was dead and dark at the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth. At that time, there was no distinction between day and night, and the world at this time was called chaos. This situation is called Tai Chi in Zhouyi, which was infinite before the formation of heaven and earth. With the continuous exploration of the ancients, they gained their own experience by observing the laws of nature, and later these experiences directly evolved into the embryonic form of Zhouyi.