Chapter 494

After reading "The Art of War" and "Han Feizi", Ye Xiang continued to read it, but after reading the following one, Ye Xiang was slightly stunned. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After a long time, I couldn't help but say: ""Zhou Yi"! My God, it must be the whole article!"

For this reason, Ye wants even!

Anyone who knows the ancient Chinese culture knows that "Zhou Yi" is one of the greatest works in China.

Due to the low productivity and underdeveloped science in the early Chinese society, the ancestors could not make scientific explanations for natural phenomena, social phenomena, and people's own physiological phenomena, so they produced the worship of gods, believing that there is a supreme god behind things, which governs everything in the world. When people are repeatedly hit by natural and man-made disasters, they germinate the desire to use divine will to predict sudden disasters and the consequences of their own actions, so as to achieve advantages and avoid disadvantages. In the long-term practice, he has invented various prediction methods to communicate with people and gods, among which the "Zhou Yi", which can best reflect the will of God, was produced under this condition.

"Zhou Yi" is also known as "Book of Changes", divided into the Department of Scripture and the Department of Transmission, the original name of the Department of Scripture is "Zhou Yi", which is the revelation of the typical symbolic meaning of the four hundred and fifty hexagrams and the judgment of the corresponding good and evil, and the Department of Transmission contains "Wenyan", "Biography" up and down, "Xiang Chuan" up and down, "Department of Dictionaries" up and down, "Hexagram Biography", "Preface Hexagram Biography", "Miscellaneous Hexagram Biography", a total of seven kinds of ten articles, called "Ten Wings", is the Confucian disciple's commentary on the "Zhou Yi" scriptures and the discussion of the principle and function of Zhengzhan.

There are different interpretations of the word "Zhou Yi", but there are two main ways to summarize it: one believes that "Zhou Yi" is a book of Zhou Dynasty Zhan Zheng, and the other believes that "Zhou Yi" is a book about changes, and the English translation of TheBookofChanges takes this meaning.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a mention of "Zhou Yi", and in the history book of "Spring and Autumn Zuo Biography", "Zhou Yi" was mentioned many times, but from the "Zhou Yi" used by people at that time, it only included the hexagram paintings (symbols) of the sixty-four hexagrams.

During the Warring States period, the "Yi Chuan" was written with the purpose of explaining the "Zhou Yi". "Zhou Yi" and "Yi Chuan" are called "Yi", such as the so-called "Yi Yi Dao Yin and Yang" in "Zhuangzi", and the so-called "Yi for those who are good for Yi Chuan" in "Xunzi" include "Yi Chuan".

After the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to strengthen the centralized system, adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "respecting Confucianism alone", following the practice of the pre-Qin and Han Jing Emperors to refer the works of the Taoist Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu to the classics, and also called the works of Confucius and Confucianism "classics". "Zhou Yi" and "Yi Chuan" are called "I Ching", or directly "Yi". Since then, "Zhou Yi", "I Ching", and "Yi" have been used in a mixed manner, some are called "Zhou Yi", some are called "I Ching", and some are called "Yi", in fact, the meaning is the same, all refer to the sixty-four hexagrams and "Yi Chuan", which have been used to this day, and there is still no strict distinction.

In order to distinguish the difference between the "Zhou Yi" scriptures, some scholars call the 64 hexagrams and hexagrams "The Ancient Classics of Zhou Yi", and call the ten works (Yi Chuan) that annotate the "Ancient Classics of Zhou Yi" "The Great Biography of Zhou Yi".

Seeing this, Ye Xiang also laughed.

"Zhou Yi" is also a very important book for Taoists, and it is also very important for Ye Xiang, Ye Xiang's Taoist level can be said to be very powerful, but the ability of yin and yang gossip is much worse.

Ye Xiang wants to study "Zhou Yi" after he goes out.

Come to think of it. Ye Xiang couldn't help but have a great increase in his expectations for the 55 tombs of King Kangju in the back!

When Ye wanted to put away all the Gu Lishu versions of the three books of "Han Feizi", "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Zhou Yi", and looked at the last coffin space in the coffin, the look of anticipation in his eyes did not diminish at all!

Because there are also a large number of jade plate books stored here, but the inscription on them is not an ancient Chinese book, but the famous Roman law!

Roman law, generally referred to as the general term for the laws of Roman slave states, existed throughout the historical period of Roman slave states. It includes both the laws of the Roman state from the beginning of the Roman state to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, as well as the orders of the emperor and the proclamations of the senate. Statutory law and some customary law. It also includes the laws of the Eastern Roman Empire before the middle of the 7th century AD.

Of course, Roman law here does not include the famous Code of Justinian, let alone the laws of the Eastern Roman Empire!

The Code of Justinian is derived from Roman law.

On February 13, 526, Emperor Justinian issued an edict appointing Tribnius to organize a commission of 10 jurists, chaired by John, the former magistrate of the "Holy Court". The Commission had the power to use all the information available to it, and to add, delete, or amend it, and to mark the edicts with the name of the emperor to be promulgated, and to the object and date of their execution, and to classify them according to their contents, in chronological order.

This collection of edicts was promulgated in 529 A.D., and became known as the Code of Justinian.

In 534, the Code of Justinian was revised and re-enacted.

Compared with Greece, Rome's first impression must have been that of pragmatism, "the greatest contribution of the Romans to Western civilization was the profound and profound Roman law."

And after a long period of evolution, Roman law, which had been extensive and profound for a long time, gradually declined, and lost the spirit of classical times."

So Justinian began to sort out the chaotic laws one by one, and asked the ministers of the time to help him compile them. At that time, there were two types of laws, one was imperial decrees, which were promulgated by emperors, and the other was legal precedents, including the judgments and interpretations made by judiciologists and jurists in the past.

However, over the centuries, jurists and jurists have accumulated a great deal of judgment and interpretation on the actual application of the law, and finally it has become difficult to apply the law.

However, Justinian saw that some of the codes had been outdated over the centuries, and he began to reorganize them, hoping to make a code that would stand the test of time.

This is where the Code of Justinian came in.

However, it contains the first written code of the Roman Empire, which is an important milestone in the history of the development of Roman law - the Law of the Twelve Tables, and an important part of later Roman law - the Law of All Peoples!

In addition to these two laws, there is also a copy of the Expedition of Alexandria by Arian of Nicomedia (now the Turkish city of Izmit)!