People are more saints and three ancients
Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles" cloud: "Yi Dao is profound, people are more three saints, and the world is three ancients." "The traditional view is that the classic "Zhou Yi" passed through the hands of three sages, they were Fuxi in antiquity, King Wen (including the Duke of Zhou) in medieval, and Confucius in ancient (modern antiquity). The "Three Sages" refer to Fu Xi, who made gossip, King Wen who played "Zhou Yi" (legend has it that King Wen made hexagrams, and Zhou Gong was a hexagram), and Confucius, who wrote "Yi Chuan". The "Three Ancients" refer to the times in which they lived, namely the Upper Antiquity, the Middle Ancients, and the Lower Antiquity (Near Antiquity).
"The ancients Bao Xi's king of the world also, looking up at the sky, looking down at the law on the ground, watching birds and beasts and the appropriateness of the earth, close to the body, far from all things, so he began to gossip, with the virtue of the gods, with the love of all things." In other words, the gossip was made for Fuxi to "look up and look down".
Department of Dictionaries" cloud: "The rise of "Yi" is also, what is it in the Middle Ages? "Yi may have flourished in the Middle Ages, a question mark used here"? And not other punctuation, is an inference. Sima Qian's "Report to Ren'an" cloud: "King Gavin was detained and acted in "Zhou Yi". "Probably when King Wen was imprisoned in Jinli, he performed the Book of Changes, that is, the Ancient Book of Changes. The word "cover" is used here, which means approximately, approximately, which is a kind of speculation and inference.
Therefore, "Zhou Yi" has passed through the hands of three saints in three eras, and no classic can be compared. Since Confucius, there has not been a book like "Zhou Yi", generation after generation of the smartest people have studied it and explained it, such as cutting and learning, such as pondering. Therefore, the "Summary of the Four Libraries" says: "The Yi is vast and all-encompassing, and it covers astronomy, geography, music, the art of war, rhyme, and arithmetic. ”
Needless to say, "Zhou Yi" is the general source of Chinese culture, a classic among classics, a management within management, and a philosophy within philosophy. No wonder some people say, "If you don't learn it, you can't be a general", "If you don't learn it, you can't say that you are a doctor", "If you don't learn it, you can't enter the cabinet".