When you think of Zhou Yi, what comes to mind? For a long time, people have more or less "misunderstood" about it, in fact, it contains rich philosophies and is a well-deserved classic of Chinese culture.
On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the large-scale cultural program "China in the Classics" of the Central Radio and Television Corporation will broadcast the tenth issue of "Zhou Yi" on the CCTV comprehensive channel at 8 pm on September 20, once again presenting a festive "cultural feast" for "fans".
The ancient sages looked up at astronomy and geography, looking for the laws of change and change between things and stars. From the philosophical height of speculation, it reveals the ancestors' exploration of the harmony of nature, society and humanities as a whole, and concentrates on the ideal realm of Chinese culture, which has had an extremely profound impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years.
This issue of the program travels through the three historical periods of antiquity, medieval and modern antiquity, leading the audience to read "Zhou Yi", which is known as the "first of the Qunjing" and "the source of the Great Avenue", feeling the profound oriental wisdom that covers all things, and praising the spirit and virtue of the sages who are self-reliant and virtuous.
The correct way to open the "Zhou Yi" accompanies King Wen of Zhou to visit the sages, taking it as his duty to respect heaven and love others
"Jiang Taigong fishing - willing to take the bait", for most people, this sentence is not unfamiliar, but do you know that there is an allusion behind it called "Weishui Visiting Xian"?
The "Book of Han and YiwenZhi" records that the formation of the Zhou Yi was "the three saints of man, the three ancients of the world". According to legend, the ancient Fuxi, the image of heaven and earth; the medieval Zhou Wenwang, who played the way of the "I Ching"; the ancient Confucius and his disciples later learned, annotated the "I Ching" to become the "Yi Chuan". After the unity of the transmission, it eventually became "Zhou Yi".
Fu Xi's simple thinking about Yi Dao originated from the four words of "respecting heaven and loving people". Liu Zhen, vice president of the China Zhou Yi Society and professor of China University of Political Science and Law, introduced: "Fu Xi is not only a mythological figure, but also appears in our history books, he led his own ethnic group, in the process of transforming and understanding nature, constantly summarized and summarized the knowledge they obtained from nature, forming some of the earliest symbol systems in "Zhou Yi", which actually represents our Chinese understanding and cognition of the world before the emergence of words. ”
According to legend, the I Ching was born on the occasion of the Shang Zhou Dynasty and was composed by King Wen of Zhou, reflecting the virtue of King Wen of Zhou in cultivating his life and governing the country. At that time, King Wen of Zhou was a monarch of the Shang Dynasty princely states, and later generations recorded that he ruled the country with benevolence and went all over the world to find the relics of the world. Based on the records in ancient classics such as "History" and "Mozi", the program designed the process of King Wen of Zhou taking the three sons of Boyikao, Ji Fa and Ji Dan to invite sages such as Hong Yao, Tai Qian, Nangong Kuo, San Yisheng, and Jiang Ziya to come out of the mountains and jointly rule the Zhou Kingdom, vividly reproducing the historical allusion of "Visiting the Sages in Weishui".
In 1973, one of the oldest manuscripts of the Zhou Yi was found in the Mawangdui Han Tomb Book in Hunan Province, which recorded Zigong's dialogue with Confucius to consult the I Ching, so that the claim that "Confucius did not read the I Ching" was self-defeating.
According to legend, in his later years, Confucius lectured at the Altar of Apricots and deleted the Six Classics as teaching materials, among which the I Ching became one of the most important texts of Confucius. Liu Zhen further explained: "It is precisely because of the emergence of the "Yi Chuan" that the "Zhou Yi" was transformed from the book of divination into the study of righteousness, from the tendency to the divination function of witchcraft to the discussion of the function of ethical indoctrination, Confucius stood on the humanistic point of view, and carried out a creative and improving transformation of the previous "I Ching". ”
How to grow in the face of adversity? Confucius and King Wen of Zhou interpreted the way of the gentleman across time and space
There are many classic quotes in "Zhou Yi", and everyone is most familiar with them: "Tianxingjian, a gentleman is unremitting in self-improvement" and "The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with thick virtue", which means: the operation of heaven, the alternation of four hours, the change of day and night, there is no end to the years, there is no error, the gentleman should imitate the health of the Heavenly Dao to improve himself endlessly; the terrain is smooth, and the gentleman should imitate the thick virtue of kundi and accommodate all things. These two sentences epitomize the essence of "Zhou Yi", telling us that the qualities of self-improvement and tolerance are the way for a gentleman to stand in the world.
Sima Qian's "Records of History" records that "King Wen restrained and performed Zhou Yi". According to legend, on the occasion of the Shang Zhou Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou guangly administered moral government, the Zhou kingdom became more and more prosperous, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which aroused the suspicion of the King of Shang. He imprisoned King Wen of Zhou in Qili for seven years and killed his son Boyikao, in such a desperate situation, King Wen of Zhou did not give up, but immersed himself in deducing the Heaven and Earth Avenue left by Fuxi, adding his analysis of the situation under the world to it and deducing the I Ching.
Since the launch of "China in the Classics", it has left many impressive "famous scenes" for the audience. In the first issue of the "Analects", the "Chen Cai Absolute Grain", which shows the highlight of Confucius's spirit, was interpreted by the actors to be full of anger, and the moving scene of a bowl of thin porridge "tasting" the World Avenue was particularly tear-inducing. It is worth mentioning that this issue of the drama breaks the time and space restrictions, and skillfully takes care of "Confucius in Chen Zhiliang" and "King Wen and Performs Zhou Yi" in parallel time and space, showing the spiritual interconnection of gentlemen in "self-improvement and thick morality". Confucius was trapped in Chen Cai, still singing and reading and lecturing; King Wen was imprisoned in Zhenli, still not changing his beliefs and deducing the dao. Two sages who made important contributions to the completion of the Zhou Yi, in the same difficult situation, each comprehended the wonderful dialogue of the way of the world, which is quite exciting. Among them, Wang Yichun will play Confucius again, and Shao Bing will play King Wen of Zhou. The live performance of the two powerful actors is extremely infectious, and will bring a wonderful interpretation that shocks the heart of the audience.
Xu Yihua, a researcher at the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of History, said: "(The program) drama involves a basic proposition of Chinese philosophy - the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, then the Xia, Shang, and Three Dynasties all have the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, but at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the most critical factor in the Mandate of Heaven has become the virtue of man, so we see that the Western Zhou people especially put forward a series of views on respecting morality and protecting the people, and the entire Chinese civilization turned to a humanistic thought." ”
As Li Shan, a professor at the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, said: "Starting from Fu Xi's observation of the heavens and the earth, Zhou Yi, as one of the most important classics of the Chinese nation, carries the ideological achievements of Chinese perceiving the world and summarizing the laws, and guides the Chinese the criterion of standing in the matter. On the evening of September 20, let us feel together the wisdom of the sages who "Tianxingjian, a gentleman who strives for self-improvement; a gentleman with a strong terrain, and a gentleman who carries things with great virtue", and understands this vast world in the endless majestic power.
Source: CCTV News Client