What is Zhouyi

The Zhouyi, or the Book of Changes, is one of the Three Books of Changes. It is one of the traditional classics, which is rumored to be made by Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen, and its content includes two parts, namely, Jing and Biography. Zhouyi is the theoretical root of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in traditional Chinese thought and culture, and is the crystallization of the thinking and wisdom of the ancient Han people, known as the "source of the great way".

The Zhouyi is extremely rich in content, and has had a profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years.

Background of the book

Because of the low productivity and underdeveloped science in the early Chinese society, the pioneers were unable to give scientific explanations for the natural phenomena, social phenomena, as well as the physiological phenomena of human beings, and thus developed the worship of God, believing that there is a supreme God behind things, who governs all things in the world.

When people were repeatedly hit by natural and man-made disasters, they developed the desire to foretell sudden disasters and the consequences of their own behavior with the help of God's will, so as to avoid harm. In the long-term practice of invention of a variety of communication between man and God's prediction methods, which can best reflect the divine will of the Zhouyi is produced under such conditions.