Chapter 7: The Influence of the I Ching on Chinese Humanistic Thought
The reason why people are human beings is that they are the products of the combination of material foundation and spiritual world, cultivated in the mother by heaven and earth, and conceived in October, in order to become a human being, the two conditions are indispensable, and one is not enough to be a person, it is as simple as that, which everyone has to agree. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This truth comes from traditional Chinese science, which understands the world in this way, but there is no "material and spiritual" rhetoric in traditional Chinese science, and traditional Chinese science is expressed in terms of yin and yang, heaven and man, and this principle comes from the principle of the Book of Changes.
The Book of Changes represents the natural science of ancient China in traditional Chinese culture, which originated from the early Chinese people along the Yellow River Valley, is the crystallization of Chinese civilization, and is the main vein of Chinese traditional culture.
The principle of the theory of the Book of Changes comes from the theory of binary progression, and the computer we use today is the principle of binary numbers, which comes from the principle of the Book of Changes.
Naturally, the ideological basis of traditional Chinese science is also the study of the generation of binary number principles.
The purpose of the Book of Changes is to convert the regularity in the development process of things through the binary number principle, and to find the peak and distortion points in the process of things through the regularity, so as to deduce the best result and the worst outcome.
The Book of Changes is the science of inferring subjective psychological expectations through objective material existence.
Strictly speaking, the principle of I Ching is a materialist principle, because when you identify the origin of things as material, and look for the best answer and the worst expectation on the basis of material conditions, the spirit is only a reflection of material products, and material conditions determine subjective consciousness, which naturally belongs to the category of materialism.
It's just that there is no materialism and idealism in traditional Chinese thought, and there is no view of "opposition and unity", the reason is that the principle of "I Ching" believes that the development of things is the process of movement of yin and yang, and the development process of things is a process of contradiction and rolling development. So in essence, the I Ching is a product of modern materialism.
The reason why materialism can take root in China is also greatly related to the strong materialist principles of traditional Chinese culture.
From this, we can understand that there is a combination point between materialism and traditional Chinese science, and it is precisely the convergence point of the two ideas in the binary number principle of natural science, and there are differences in the materialist dialectics.
The Book of Changes is a natural science theory summarized by the Chinese people along the Yellow River Basin who observed the sky at night and the wind and rain by day for more than 4,000 years.
After the "I Ching" was produced, it became a natural encyclopedia for the Chinese, and gradually formed the ideological foundation of traditional Chinese culture, and what the Chinese really deserve to have is actually the "I Ching".
Three of the world's four major ancient civilizations have disappeared, but China's Xiahua civilization has stood for 5,000 years without falling, what is the reason? The reason is that China has the Book of Changes, and without the Book of Changes, the ancient civilization of China will also disappear, which shows the greatness of the Book of Changes, but since the beginning of the last century, the Book of Changes has gradually disappeared in the sea of people, and when the Book of Changes does not affect the Chinese at all, the ancient Chinese civilization will also disappear in the sea of people.
When modern Chinese bury old traditional ideas, some traditional Chinese things really cannot be buried.
Now that the I Ching has begun to fade away from its influence on the Chinese under the invasion of Western idealism, why do you say that? Because the modern and modern philosophical system of the West is an ideological system based on idealism, and in modern Western society does not agree with the position of materialism, and even does not include materialism in the Western philosophical system, it can be seen that the challenge of the I Ching is fundamental, the challenge of life and death. Chinese have always regarded the "Zhou Yi" and Confucian culture as the product of idealism is extremely wrong, and it is necessary to distinguish the root of the theoretical basis in order to really draw the correct conclusion, so to speak, if one day the "I Ching" disappears from people's field of vision, it can be equated with materialism without foundation, and it will also disappear.
This is a question of theoretical roots, unaffected by the idea of consciousness.
Should Chinese go back and re-understand their own culture? Let's get to know traditional Chinese culture.
Since its inception, the I Ching has laid the ideological cornerstone for traditional Chinese culture and gradually formed the ideological source of Chinese's creative understanding of the world.
The ancient Chinese absorbed nutrients from the I Ching, believing that the world began from one, merged in two, divided into three, formed in four, knotted in five, shunned to six, separated from seven, easy to eight, returned to nine, and completed in ten, these traditional cultural ideas are still very valuable cultural heritage for people today.
The world starts with one, one custom. This question has been proven true by modern science, that the universe originated from a nuclear fission.
Two in one, two people in the world, two people can be the world. This principle is more scientific, everyone is born to parents, a man and a woman are born together, a yin and a yang are born and three are born, two yin are not born, and two yang are not long. It is impossible for two men to have children, and it is impossible for two women to reproduce. Two people create the world.
Divided into three, three yang Kaitai, winter to spring, all things recover, three points are Vientiane. Chinese believe that the winter solstice is "one yang sheng", December is "two yang sheng", and the first month is "three yang kaitai". "Three yangs" means that yin energy gradually disappears, yang energy is born, winter goes to spring, and everything recovers. Therefore, the development of things is divided into three, starting from three, with thousands of branches, and the weather is renewed.
Becoming four, the four seasons are reincarnated, and the four seasons are rich. This is the traditional thinking of the Chinese. Playing mahjong is also the cycle of the four seasons, Wishing you prosperity. The four seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the four seasons are the seasons of plant reincarnation, autumn planting, winter storage, spring ploughing, summer Yan, and maturity in autumn. The four seasons are reincarnated, and Gu Feng raises people.
Tie in five, the five grains are abundant, and the five elements are shengke. The development of things is from the beginning to the first, the process to the second, the reproduction to the third, the reincarnation to the fourth, the harvest, the fullness, and the abundance are all in the five, and the fifth is the end of the five substances in the five.
Shun to the six, six six Shun, six six Shun from the Book of Changes, six six for the "Kun" hexagram. Kun is the mother of the earth, Kun carries all things, the earth can accommodate, "the husband has a constant capacity, because of the multiplication of the guide, because of the appearance of the object", "the tolerance is considerable, the advance and retreat can be measured." "Therefore, six things go well.
Separated from seven, seven from "Zhou Li" "Women have seven to go: disobedient to their parents, go." "Seven has the meaning of separation, the Han people's Qixi Festival, seven mourning, seven sacrifices, and the battle between the seven characters are all interpretations of the seven separation.
Eight easy, eight, divided, don't. In eight for the point, for the other, the other is changeable. Easy to change. Easy means change. In traditional Chinese culture, the number eight indicates that things are beginning to change. Out of eight and divided. See eight for part.
Attributed to nine. Ninety-nine to one, Guan Zi said: "The way of heaven is based on nine systems." Yi said: "Qianxuan uses nine, which is the rule of seeing the sky." "Nine is the largest number in the ******** of the Han nationality, and the number to nine is the end of the number of days, and then the number is one and starts again, so Chinese recognize nine as the rule of heaven and earth, and the nine of heaven and nine belong to the imperial power, which cannot be crossed.
Perfection in ten, perfection.
This is the knowledge that the Chinese have summed up from the I Ching to understand the world, and these truths are still the common understanding of the Chinese today.
From here, we can see that Chinese traditional culture is very objective and general, and the understanding of problems starts from a narrow sense to look at and deal with problems in a broad sense.
From this, you can understand why the Chinese do everything with a narrow entrance and an infinitely wide inside.
The reason why the Chinese know the interface and the code of action will appear narrow in front and wide in the back is that the I Ching is the knowledge interface of "opposition and unity", and "opposition and unity" is a modern term, which is actually the idea of "unity of heaven and man" and "yin and yang contract" in traditional Chinese culture.
According to modern philosophical theory, the materiality and consciousness of the development of things are contradictory, opposite, and mixed, and exist in the process of the development of things without distinguishing between them.
Generally speaking, Chinese understand the world by mixing nature and humanity together, looking at problems in a drum style, and drilling into the interior of things to see problems, which is traditional Chinese science, and it is also the common thought of modern Chinese.
Should Chinese people go back and re-understand their own culture, and before looking back, should they first recognize the strengths and weaknesses of their own culture, and the advantages and disadvantages of Western culture?
Let's not put abstract concepts into philosophy and make people unable to understand the truth.
In fact, philosophy, as defined by Westerners, is a broad science.
Philosophy is widely concerned with universal laws, universal cognition, and universal public opinion. In terms of the influence of philosophy on human behavior, philosophy can go deep into the depths of the human soul, under the effect of materialism and idealism, the contract develops in parallel, and does not contradict the essence of the development of things. Why is it necessary to divide the root nature of the development of things?
This is actually a question that modern Chinese must consider, and it is very important.
Generally speaking, philosophy affects our political system, ideological structure, laws and regulations, guidelines and policies, living habits, social concepts, family consciousness, etc., and it can be said that from the superstructure to eating, drinking, and Lazar, it is related to philosophical thoughts.
Therefore, Westerners broadly define philosophy as between love and wisdom, "love and wisdom" both come from human ******** and material conditions, and are a comprehensive reflection of observation and feeling. Wisdom is the material condition of human beings, and only when people have the conditions of wisdom can they develop knowledge structures, scientific principles, programs of action, and so on.
In the final analysis, Western philosophy is also the product of the combination of materialism and idealism, but the definition of Western philosophy is very broad.
It's just that in Western philosophy, the focus is very simple, only looking at things whether they exist or not, change and change, soul and body. Arguing only between existence and non-existence does not contract existence and non-existence together as the Chinese Book of Changes, and complicates the development process of things into the essence of the development of things, but rather cumbers the process of development of things.
Western philosophy was enlightened by the quantitative change process of one plus one equals two, while the Chinese Book of Changes originated from the qualitative change process of one to one and one to two. If we compare Chinese philosophy with Western philosophy, Chinese science and Western philosophy are not at the same level.
At the beginning of the Enlightenment, Chinese philosophy was defined on the basis of calculating the origin of the universe, which is general and huge, the unity of heaven and man, and the understanding of the world of "opposites and unity". There is no materialism and idealism in Chinese science, only the understanding that yin and yang are mutually exclusive and mutually reinforcing, focusing on the truth that material development must have its regularity, ignoring the influence of consciousness, eliminating the role of ideas on will, strengthening the will to manage, cracking down on self-consciousness, setting up a tight external and loose thinking interface, basing objective existence on subjective consciousness, differentiating class differences, increasing **** efforts, and forming a powerful **** concept.
Western philosophy, on the other hand, proceeds from the theory of ideas, pays more attention to the essence of human nature, such as human talent, desire, freedom, and democracy, and believes that subjective consciousness can change objective reality, and uses the mathematical principles of the Trinity to convert the world.
In the end, a kind of thought sailed away and went to the whole world, and a kind of thought died halfway through and died on the beach.
This is the current state of Eastern and Western philosophical thought.
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