"Zhou Yi" = "I Ching" + "Yi Chuan".
The Book of Changes is composed of two parts: the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes includes hexagrams, hexagrams (64 articles), inscriptions, and hexagrams (386 articles). And "Yi Chuan" includes the "Xiang Chuan" up and down the upper and lower chapters, "Wenyan Biography", "Department of Dictionaries" up and down, "Hexagram Biography", "Preface Hexagram Biography" and "Miscellaneous Hexagram Biography", a total of seven kinds of ten articles, is Confucius and his ** or re-transmission **, and even re-transmission ** re-transmission ** Reading the "Book of Changes" experience report, is the creative transformation and innovative development of the "Book of Changes", after thousands of tempers and become the "unchanging scriptures", it makes the ancient Zhou Yi Jing "I Ching" plugged in 10 "wings", so that the "Book of Changes" is like a tiger with wings, so it is also called "ten wings." ”。
The biography is divided into two parts, the upper and lower, explaining the ** of the gossip, the ancient method of divination, the meaning of the four ways of the sage, the nine hexagrams of cultivation, etc., which is the highest philosophical achievement in the "Ten Wings", and its formation years mainly include "the early Warring States period" and "the late Warring States period", in addition to the "Qin Shi said" and "Han Shi said". Therefore, most scholars believe that the Book of Changes was not written by Confucius alone, but was the crystallization of the collective wisdom of Confucius and his disciples.
The Book of Changes is the ancient scripture of the Book of Changes, which is mainly used for divination. In ancient times, diviners were first-class intelligent people and university scholars. For major national events, such as waging wars or holding sacrificial activities, these people must be invited to take a fortune, divination, and calculate, and see the good fortune and misfortune, so as to decide whether to do it, and when to do it. Therefore, the hexagrams in the Book of Changes are divination words, which are fixed and unchanging. The "Book of Changes" is Confucius's experience of reading the "Book of Changes", such as Confucius's lament on the first nine lines of the hexagram "do not go out of the court, no blame", and the "Department of Dictionaries" cloud: "The chaos is born, and the words are the order." If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will be harmed. The emphasis is on "confidentiality".
Why "Zhou Yi" = "I Ching" + "Yi Chuan"? There are three reasons for this:
First, before King Wen of Zhou, Fuxi's gossip only had hexagram paintings, no words, and was a wordless heavenly book. King Wen was imprisoned in the palace by the king of Shang for seven years, and he used this time to fiddle with 50 yarrow all day long, and made 64 hexagrams into 64 hexagrams, and made hexagrams, which is called the Book of Changes. Later, Confucius made the "Ten Wings", which was also the experience of studying King Wen's "Book of Changes", and this experience eventually became the unchanging "Sutra".
Second, the Yi includes the Lianshan Yi headed by the Gen hexagram, the Guizang Yi headed by the Kun hexagram, and the Zhou Yi headed by the Qian hexagram. Lianshan Yi and Guizang Yi are now lost, and only Zhou Yi remains. Of course, some people believe that Lianshan Yi and Guizang Yi have not been lost, and those things that tell fortunes and divination on the rivers and lakes have the remains of Lianshan Yi and Guizang Yi.
Third, there is Ye Cai's "Late Spring Thing" in the Song Dynasty as evidence: "Shuangshuang Wa Que Xingshu case, a little poplar into the inkstone pond. Sitting in the small window reading Zhou Yi, I don't know how long the spring will go. The term "Zhou Yi" is used here instead of "I Ching".
Therefore, with Confucius as the boundary, "Zhou Yi" is preceded by the "Zhou Yi" ancient scripture, that is, the "Book of Changes", which is the book of divination, the book of divination, and after Confucius, "Zhou Yi" added the experience of Confucius and his disciples and grandchildren to learn the ancient scriptures of "Zhou Yi", "Zhou Yi" includes "Book of Changes" and "Book of Changes". Since then, "Zhou Yi" has become a book of philosophy and humanities.
But in real life, the I Ching and the Zhou Yi are often seen as the same thing. Therefore, the study of the Book of Changes is the study of the Book of Changes, and the study of the Book of Changes is also the study of the Book of Changes.