ZhuoYi-The Book of Changes explanation (1)The first (1) - I Ching -
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ZhuoYi-The Book of Changes explanation (1)The first (1)

(Dr.Chen Yikui)

In the course of Chinese history, this part of the Book of Changes was completed by the Han Dynasty. Before it was a small part, but this part of the 64 hexagram was completed in Zhou Dynasty. It is organized then Zhou Gong did it as a record, so all with the hexagrams in the palace at the time, the palace, by Bo Yang textual research, how big was the palace at that time? Is the width of only a bamboo wide, because bamboo is long, then I thought when I was very young, we are in the middle of the farmland higher places, will use the longest bamboo as a beam, the roof is covered grasses or jianmang, the southern is the use of sugarcane leaves. The width will not exceed 8 meters, if you use Taiwan fir or Fuzhou fir, from the mainland will be cedar, the widest 18 feet, then the widest 18 feet now, there are still exist in Dihua Street. You do not underestimate Dihua Street store each store is 18 feet, why? At that time Dihua Street was most prosperous, that is, before the Japanese people came, then the business was going from Tamsui River (Dihua Street near Tamsui River) with a small boat and went directly from Danshui. Keelung was after the Japanese come developed into a great commercial port, before the commercial port were in freshwater. I would like to tell you, no matter what the changes of the times, human beings use everything from the point of view of nature. Without the products of nature, you can not create the future, or the most successful aircraft now is. Europe A380, which can take five or six hundred people. Boeing 747 probably only take more than three hundred to four hundred.

So are the things in nature with man-made. Then the Book of Changes, from the beginning of King Wen, has been gathering the tribal spirit, essence. Take its essence, record them, they used to be recorded with bamboo carved, impossible to fine like our computer. For very clear to describe it in detail, or to pattern it up, impossible. It must have written in just a sentence, as if we were praying, going to heaven for prayer, wish for a good weather and not having the details. Have you ever heard of it? No. How much wind? No. For rain, in the words how much every rainfall, how many times a year, this is Yu Shun. Therefore, it often become the same as the formula, or trick song, it is good weather, but no one to study, how fast the wind speed or how much rain is most suitable for a living environment.

So it is very sad, there is good weather in the Zhou Dynasty this kind of ecology, but no one study it, are just kneeling there asked the heaven to give you a good weather. Why do not you research how we can create good weather. Why do we suffer so much, be the slaves of others! About 5,000 years or so, we are not rich, no. Since the founding of Fuxi, if we start to talk about it as the earliest Chinese culture, from the time of Fu Xi to the beginning of the past thirty or so years, five or six thousand years is in the poor. So what I want to talk about is that at that time Zhou Gong bringing something like this in a very logical arrangement, the arrangement was generally completed by the Han dynasty, and the order of the hexagrams was put in the order, and it was discharged in the manner of the Zhou dynasty time, why did he use this method of arrangement, you have to understand this arrangement method, because of this arrangement method, and later we have a lot of basic action, and why?

After it has been arranged to hold it from heaven and earth, 乾坤屯蒙需訟師(Ch’ien, Kun,Chun, Meng,Hsu, Sung, Shih),after that , both Ch’ien and Kuan team are opposite. If I say a 風水渙 (feng shui Huan ) now, it will turn into 水澤節( Shui Zhe Jie).  Such a group of words, that is, Newton's law of motion exactly the same. Newton's law of motion is to achieve, so remarkable is that Zhou Gong hang this hexagrams on the wall this way has been rotating, and its law of motion is rotating. Endless rotation, in the end is a straight line just science?

This idea was still scientific at the time. Everything in the universe is spinning, and its movements are all rotations, including our elements, all the cells, and all the movements of our body's blood are circular and rotating.

So in the Republic of China 53 years, there was this a Lin person study Gua very well, he studied in Japan before and finally to China,sadly to said, he wants to be good at I Ching to understand it, did not expect he went to Beijing, China to meet with the entire school boom and the May Fourth Movement. These are all old studies. Therefore, he was very resentful that he knew a little about Western science and knew everything about the qualifications of the time The first MD, Du Congming, came to Kaohsiung Medical School in the same era. Both of them liked debate.He retired. He thought that Japanese politics were just as dark as Chinese politics. Because he is often targeted by the Japanese, just because he did not bow to the image of the emperor. So he went to a place where the Japanese did not want to go, is now the Yingge, Yingge is the place Japanese most do not want to go, they believes that the lowest class people specialized bowls, urn, the Japanese think these people are low, how Yingge can exist? Because the Japanese did not go to touch it, why Taipei would be totally different from the general countryside? Because they made this little place in Taipei totally imperial civilized.Therefore, when the Kuomintang government comes, they accepted it, it would very aptly put it imperial civilized.

2018-04-19