At present, we are in an era of rapid change, so in many cases in the face of some traditional cultures of the past, people's attitude is: "take its essence, discard its dross". Indeed, with the change of the times, sometimes many of the things that used to be treasured may seem to us to be out of date and backward.
In our country, as an ancient civilization with a history of five thousand years, there are countless classic cultural traditions handed down from history. Among these cultural traditions and cultural classics, one of which has been questioned as a feudal superstition for nearly three thousand years, has finally been confirmed to be a super-scientific technology today, and has even been included in the national examination.
So what exactly is this text? It is so magical that after thousands of years of skepticism, it can be confirmed to be a science and technology, and even appear in the most stringent national examination in the country. If you want to understand this cultural classic, you still have to start from the history of the time.
The enduring "Zhou Yi"
And this classic, which is still famous in China after being doubted, is actually "Zhou Yi". When it comes to "Zhou Yi", almost everyone may have heard of it, but what kind of work is "Zhou Yi"? There are a lot of people who don't really understand.
In fact, many people have a big misunderstanding of "Zhou Yi". Especially whenever "Zhou Yi" is mentioned, everyone may think of a fortune teller. It is believed that "Zhou Yi" is full of superstitious content.
This is not the case. The content in "Zhou Yi" is actually very rich. First of all, the content of this book can be used to some extent to calculate the future trend. In "Zhou Yi", a method called "the way of profit and loss" is used to predict the future.
And the predictions in this are not out of thin air, and it is said that the predictions inside are of some accuracy. For example, in the "Zhou Yi", it was said that Confucius would predict that the Chinese civilization could be inherited and developed for three thousand years. Sure enough, in the Analects, Confucius did make this prediction later, holding this view.
In addition to predictions, Zhou Yi also recorded a lot of historical information. To a certain extent, the existence of "Zhou Yi" is very helpful for experts and scholars to examine history. Because the Zhou Yi was written very early, in addition to the knowledge about the I Ching and Taoism, it also records a lot of historical knowledge and traditions. It provides certain evidence for the research of future generations. For example, the famous historian Zhang Taiyan once commented that "Zhou Yi" is actually a very valuable history book.
Moreover, not only that, "Zhou Yi" also has a very deep philosophical concept. Zhuangzi advocated the study of the yin and yang problem in the Zhou Yi, arguing that the two poles of yin and yang are endless, and this is actually the earliest Chinese philosophical problem. Moreover, after investigation and research, many experts and scholars now believe that "Zhou Yi" is actually the earliest surviving work on philosophy in China. Scholars believe that the Zhou Yi describes an endless cosmology and an ontological philosophy of life.
It can be seen that "Zhou Yi" is actually not limited to arithmetic and divination, but is actually a classic book with great depth.
Misunderstood questioning three thousand years is finally proven
Often, people will speculate on what they are not familiar with according to their own thoughts, and this speculation is mostly wrong. This sentence is the best proof in the book "Zhou Yi".
Although "Zhou Yi" is rich in content, it is inevitable that it is somewhat obscure and difficult to understand, and because "Zhou Yi" does have some content about predicting the future, "Zhou Yi" is considered by many people to be a book of feudal superstition.
Therefore, many people think that what is described in this book is actually a castle in the air, which is very illusory and useless. Therefore, in these three thousand years, "Zhou Yi" has almost always been considered by the general public to be a superstitious book, and the content of the book is meaningless.
In this way, in the past three thousand years, "Zhou Yi" has been misunderstood a lot. Over the years, with the development and openness of people's minds, they have become more and more tolerant of various cultures. At the same time, experts and scholars have also studied "Zhou Yi" in depth.
At this time, people found that the prediction of the future in "Zhou Yi" first of all actually had a certain truth. In particular, the ideas advocated in the Zhou Yi such as celestial phenomena are actually in line with the natural sciences we now advocate.
In addition, the propositions and explorations on the two poles of yin and yang in "Zhou Yi" are actually the basis for the current history of the development of philosophy in China. And zhuangzi's advocacy of natural inaction, the realm of transcendence from nature, is even more difficult for us to achieve an ideal realm at present.
Therefore, we found that in the past three thousand years, because the understanding of "Zhou Yi" was not deep and accurate enough, we have been mistakenly thinking that this book is a book of feudal superstition, but in fact, it is wrong. And some fortune tellers are only swindling under the guise of "Zhou Yi", and they do not understand the true connotation of "Zhou Yi", but they have brought a negative impact on "Zhou Yi".
Now, with the improvement of the status of "Zhou Yi", even in the national examination for the selection of talents in China, there will be a simple investigation of the content of "Zhou Yi", which shows that in fact, the status of "Zhou Yi" in China's history and literary history has been greatly improved, and people have begun to recognize the classics and wonderful points of "Zhou Yi".
In this way, the doubts about "Zhou Yi" for three thousand years are actually wrong, and today we need to study the spirit of "Zhou Yi" more deeply.
epilogue
With the development and change of the times, people believed more and more in science, and the older they became, the more they rejected feudal superstitions. This is actually a good phenomenon. Big, but while we are modernizing and scientific, we must also be able to distinguish which is the real superstition. We can't blindly regard all ancient things as decaying and obsolete, in fact, many times, these ancient things are also the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.
Therefore, at present, when we examine some ancient cultural classics, we should not completely deny, let alone blindly absorb, but should hold a humble attitude, while learning, we must also be able to criticize, "take its essence, discard its dross." "Use the wisdom of the ancients to further refine our thoughts and ideas and create a better life for us."
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