Where is the "broadness" and "profundity" of Chinese culture? I think it lies in the profound philosophical thinking of the Book of Changes, which is the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and culture for 5, years, and is known as "the head of the group classics and the source of the avenue". It uses different permutations and combinations of Yin and Yang symbols to simulate the changing laws of various things, and it is the general source of hundred schools of thought's thoughts such as Laozi and Confucius. The mystery of the Book of Changes lies not in the mysterious images, but in its philosophical world outlook and methodology, which has become a tool for people to observe and explain the world. It provides a systematic understanding and understanding of the changing relationship and development trend of all things in nature, a philosophical method and a mode of thinking, and a model for exploring the changing and developing laws of life in the universe.
The Book of Changes not only profoundly affects the thinking mode, ideological and cultural concepts and humanistic character of the Chinese nation, but also has a profound impact on the development of the world. Yu Shinan, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, said, "If you don't read Yi, you can't be a relative" and "If you don't know Yi, how can you be a doctor?" During the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government stipulated that those who didn't understand Yi were not allowed to enter the cabinet. On the national flags of South Korea and Mongolia; On the emblems of Singapore and Angola Air Forces; On the world's first computer trademark developed by the United States; In 1949, the authority of European philosophy C? In the preface written by G Jien for the English version of the Book of Changes, he said: "When it comes to the world's only wisdom collection, China's Book of Changes is the first one. In science, our laws are often short-lived, or overturned by later facts. Only China's Book of Changes, which is timeless and new, is still valuable for six thousand years, and has many similarities with the latest atomic physics. ". The birth of modern science and technology, such as binary system, relativity and quantum mechanics, coincides with the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes is strikingly consistent with the biological genetic code, which directly reproduces the essence of life. The Book of Changes is like a big and profound treasure, which needs to be explored, exploited and absorbed by future generations.
The dialectical thinking in The Book of Changes (the thinking system of image number of "words, images and meanings") is as profound and rich as the dialectics of Hegel, Feuerbach and Marx. Taiji diagram, which can best express the philosophy of the Book of Changes, can best express the movement state of things and the general relationship between things by means of a conceptual and comprehensive system model constructed by "words, images and meanings". Encourage people to master systematic and dialectical thinking, so as to solve the problems left by dialectics for a long time. That is, Hegel, the master of western philosophy, said: "It is always thinking that causes difficulties, because thinking separates all the links that are actually linked to an object from each other to examine." At the same time, it also solves the contradiction between the integrity of dialectics theory itself and the way of narrative dialectics theory.
Hegel once lamented: The Book of Changes represents the wisdom of China people, and the biggest regret in his life is that he did not fully understand China's Book of Changes; I believe that if the philosopher Hegel realizes the philosophy of the Book of Changes, he will revise his view of Confucianism and Chinese culture that "it has created a splendid lie civilization for thousands of years-a glorious ruin".
In hundred schools of thought, two wise men, Laozi and Confucius, are often regarded as the spokesmen of Chinese civilization. Because Laozi's thoughts lay particular stress on the philosophical thought of "Tao" of yin and yang in the Book of Changes. Confucius laid particular stress on the "virtue" aspect of the divinatory symbols in the Book of Changes. Therefore, it is often thought that Laozi speaks for China's philosophy and Confucius speaks for Chinese culture.
why Confucius is the top ten thinkers in the world, but Laozi is behind Confucius, does not mean that Laozi's thoughts are less important than Confucius'. "Morality" is integrated with each other, and Tao ranks first. "Tao can be Tao, but it is extraordinary". Tao can't be expressed by words, and the realm is too high, so intangible things are not easy to understand. Confucius taught people to join the WTO, and "virtue" or "device" was easy to express and understand. For example, Confucius' The Analects of Confucius tells you to be happy at the beginning, which is easier to understand, experience, accept and practice than Laozi's Tao Te Ching, which is "Tao can be Tao, but it is extraordinary".
The Book of Changes was originally the cosmology of China people. After Zhou Wenwang, it turned to human sociology, explaining social phenomena with divination and rhetoric, and became the philosophical and theoretical basis of Confucianism by Confucius.
It is especially important to point out here that "those who know what is easy don't talk about it, and those who talk about it don't know what is easy". The greatest thing about Confucius is to raise the Book of Changes from a book for divination and divination to the height of world outlook, epistemology and methodology. He wrote Ten Wings (also known as the Book of Changes) for the Book of Changes, which made the Book of Changes a profound philosophy of life and a philosophical work, and became the first source of Chinese culture.