The Four Steps to the Sky

In the early eighteenth century, the German philosopher and mathematician Leibniz interpreted the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes in binary.

Leibniz pointed out in the "Letter to Draymond" that the 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes are exactly similar to the binary counting method he invented more than 20 years ago: Yin Yao - can be represented by 0, Yang Yao - can be Use 1 to represent.

莱布尼茨又说以0和1二数可以表示万物，一如易经中阴爻--，阳爻-生生不息，滋生万物。000000 為64卦中的坤坤；000100 為64卦中的坤震；111111 為64卦中的乾乾。

Leibniz further attached the gossip to show that God created the world in seven days, Kun 000: for heaven and earth, everything is empty; first day: Gen 001 for God to create the sky, second day: Kan 010 for heaven and earth together.. Seven days dry 111: All things are available, and it is the Sabbath of the Lord.

"Yi Zhuan" is also known as "Ten Wings". In the early days, it was generally believed that "Ten Wings" came from the writing of Confucius.

"Zhouyi Zhushu" Cao Wei Wangbi (guaci, yaoci, si, xiang, classical Chinese), Han Kangbo of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (xici, Shuogua, Xugua, Zahang) commented on "Zhouyi Zhu"; Tang Kong Yingda (574─648) wrote "Zhouyi Justice, ten volumes.One of the commentaries on the Five Classics and the Thirteen Classics.

Five Elements - Yin and Yang - Tai Chi - Promise.

The "San Zi Jing" of the Song Dynasty mentioned: "There are Lianshan Mountains, Guizang, Zhouyi, and the Three Changes in detail."

"Historical Records Confucius Family" said: "Confucius was late but liked "Yi", "Preface", "Zhu", "Xi", "Xiang", "Shuo Gua" and "Classical Chinese".

"Book of Changes, Xi Ci Zhuan, Part [-]" attributes the nature of "Yi" to "Qian" and the nature of "Jian" to "Kun".

It is said in "Shan Hai Jing" that "Fuxi got the "River Map", and the Xia people called it "Lianshan" because of it."

"Zhou Li" Zheng Xuan's commentary quotes Du Zichun: "Lianshan, Mi Opera; Guizang, Huangdi."

"Zhouyi Zhengyi": "When King Wen wrote "Yi", he was in Yili. Zhou De was not prosperous, and it was still in the Yin Dynasty, so the title Zhou is different from Yin. This is why it is called "Zhouyi" because of the performance of King Wen. Its "Zhou "Book", "Zhou Li". Inscribed Zhou to distinguish other generations." Sima Qian's "Historical Records" in the Western Han Dynasty: "Xibo held the Lili and performed the Zhouyi".

Volume [-] of "Songya Wenchao" "Book by Mr. Yin Yuanchang of the Shangzhi Army". "Summary of Siku" stated that "to develop the study of Han Confucianism, Xun Shuang and Yu Fan are the main ones. When referring to the theories of Zheng Kangcheng, Song Xian, and Ganbao, they all integrate their meanings, and they are self-explanatory and self-explanatory. .”

Mathematical Sciences: Common-sense fallacies are worrying.Leibniz's binary numbers of 0 and 1 have nothing to do with the 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes.

Lou Yulie, Yuan Hong and the Metaphysics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, included in "Chinese Studies (Volume I)". 67─92 pages, Beijing: Peking University Press, March 1993.

The Book of Changes is the oldest book in China. The philosophical thoughts in the Book of Changes are the source of Chinese culture. It has not only generally but substantially influenced the development of China's academic, political, and social aspects for thousands of years.

In particular, it has cultivated the outlook on life of every Chinese.The reason why the philosophy of the Book of Changes has such a great influence is that the content includes not only the principles and principles of the universe, but also the words and deeds of life. If you talk about it, you will be quiet and upright. If you talk about it between heaven and earth, you will be prepared."

Fuxi's painting of hexagrams: According to ancient legends, Fuxi's painting of eight trigrams is the founder of the philosophy of the Book of Changes.Fuxi is the founder of the animal husbandry era in ancient Chinese history, and the first "king" in Chinese history, around 4700 BC. In terms of his early age, he is actually the ancestor of human philosophy in the world.

The biography of Xici records his story of painting gossip: "In ancient times, the Baoxi clan (accordingly, the Fuxi clan) was the king of the world. Yi, close to the body and far away to take the things, so I started to make gossip, to understand the virtue of the gods, and to understand the emotions of all things."

King Wen of Zhou Yanyi: King Wen of Zhou (1232-1135 BC) was at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.At that time, Yin Zhou was in power and the world was in chaos. King Wen carried forward the philosophy of the Book of Changes with a worried heart, and emphasized the eight trigrams as 64 hexagrams, and made hexagrams and lines.It is known in history as "Wen Wang Yanyi".

At the time of King Wen, the people of the society had a strong belief in ghosts and gods. King Wen invented a divination technique, which integrated the philosophy of the Book of Changes into the divination technique, and borrowed 64 hexagrams and 380 four lines; Words such as miserliness are used to guide and rationalize people's lives, so later Confucius praised King Wen: "The sage teaches with the way of the gods, and the world obeys." King Wen of Zhou further implemented Fuxi's philosophy of gossip in people's birthdays.

Confucius praised Yi: Queen Wen had Confucius for more than five hundred years, and Confucius was born at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.Confucius inherited the teachings of Fuxi and King Wen, and even pioneered the philosophy of the Book of Changes. He made ten wings to explain the 64 hexagrams, hexagrams, and lines of King Wen. Since then, the Book of Changes has become a book of pure philosophical thought.

The ten wings of Confucius are ten texts, which are called Yi Zhuan by later generations, and the 64 hexagrams and hexagrams and lines of King Wen are called Yi Jing.The greatest contribution of Confucius is the completion of the huge ideological system of the philosophy of the Book of Changes. In this system, the universe, all things, and human beings are integrated into the "Tao" of one great law, and human beings are the first to produce common things with their innate wisdom. , improve spiritual life, pursue morality, and open a bright road for the future of mankind.

Confucius' promotion of Yi learning is the highest achievement in the history of the philosophy of Yi Jing, and it is called "Confucius praise of Yi" in history.

Fuxi, King Wen of Zhou, and Confucius are known as the "Three Sages of Yi Xue".

The study of Xiangshu and Yi in the Han Dynasty: After Confucius, the study of Yi declined, and in the early Western Han Dynasty, it was revived when Tian He taught Yi.Only the study of numerology and disasters prevailed in the Western Han Dynasty, and the philosophy of the Book of Changes was influenced by this, and it merged with the study of numerology, so that it was used to account for disasters, which is known as "Xiangshuyi" in the world.

Yifeng in the Western Han Dynasty, roughly before Emperor Xuan, still adhered to the Confucian school of Yiyi. Since Meng Xi in the reign of Emperor Xuan, Jiao Yanshou, Jingfang, etc. were all experts in divination and calamity, and they were also the backbone of Xiangshuyi.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang, Yu Fan, etc. inherited that Xiangshuyi was not only used to explain disasters, but also used to explain scriptures. At this time, Yiwei's book is actually a representative of Xiangshuyi thought.

Xiangshu Yi continued to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was cumbersome and absurd, which is the case of Wang Bi's commentary on Yi.Wang Biyi's commentary on sweeping Xiangshu is attributed to Yi Yi, which can be said to be the end of Xiangshuyi in the Han Dynasty.

Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties and the Study of Books: Since Wang Bi, Buddhism flourished while Yi studies declined.In the Song Dynasty, Yi Xue began to revive again.The Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties have a lot of clues to Yi school. In short, Zhou Lianxi first introduced Tai Chi diagram theory, which later developed into a branch.

Shao Yong's innate easy Sudoku form a branch.Although Cheng Yichuan and Zhang Zai are different, they can always be attributed to Yili.The studies of Hetu and Luoshu are generally popular.In addition, due to the decline of the world, many hermits wrote books, and most of them inherited the theory of image and number, which can be found in Dao Zang.From this period of Yi Xue to the Ming Dynasty, Lai Zhide can be regarded as the end of the study of Yishu and books, and Wang Chuanshan can be regarded as the successor of the study of Yili.By the Qing Dynasty, although Hui Dong, Jiao Xun, etc. had studied Yi Xue, it was not enough to say that they had made great achievements.

Dao: Dao is the ideological essence of the philosophy of the Book of Changes. The reason why the Book of Changes is called philosophy is because of its Dao.What is Tao?Ancient and modern thinkers can only talk about one aspect of meaning, but cannot make a comprehensive description.

大体而言，可从以下几方面认识：1、道是形而上的。2、道是普遍的法则。3、道是流行义，有生生万物之德。4、道是一。5、道有简易、变易、不易三义。

Image: Image is an ideological symbol to express Tao. The philosophy of Yijing was founded before the invention of writing, and it was the first to express Tao with image.Xiang can be divided into: 1. Eight Diagrams. 2. 64 hexagrams. 3. Diagrams of various forms.

Technique: The technique is called Divination technique, which was founded by King Wen of Zhou.The method is to use fifty-year-old strategies to calculate and calculate the hexagram images, and then use the hexagram images and the words of the hexagrams to determine good and bad luck.The meaning of art is the same as that of image, and it is also a way to express Yidao.

Number: The development of number in the philosophy of Yijing is extremely complicated, because the hexagram image itself comes with number.There are numbers of heaven and earth, that is, from one to ten, odd numbers are days and also yang numbers; even numbers are earth numbers and are also yin numbers.The number of destiny divination refers to the number of seven, nine, eight, and six in divination.

There are innate and acquired numbers, which is what Xiang Shuyi Zhonghe Ganzhi said.There are congenital easy numbers, which were used by Song Shaoyong Yixue.

Characters: The characters in the Book of Changes come later, referring to hexagrams, lines, and ten wings.Words, art, numbers, and images are tools for expressing Tao. (~^~)