Zhou Yi is a very great book in China, and even many people in modern times claim that the source of Chinese culture comes from the I Ching, which cannot be wrong, but it is indeed a bit excessive.
Zhou Yi or I Ching, said to break the heavens, when he began, it was a book of fortune telling, counting auspicious and evil, calculating what the future fate would be, and so on.
Later, Confucian intellectuals, according to the original I Ching, wrote out the biography, that is, their own feelings and understanding of the gua ci yan ci, which is called chuan, which is the Zhou Yi we see today, strictly speaking, it is divided into two parts: the sutra and the transmission.
Many people say that if you can calculate, you help me calculate how many lottery numbers this evening is, and you can't calculate the lottery numbers that you can't calculate is your I Ching.
The people who say this are mainly ignorant of the I Ching, the question you asked about the I Ching cannot be answered, and Zhou Yi's calculation conclusion is only two words, auspicious or fierce.
You can only ask, tomorrow I am going to fight the enemy to the death, whether this is Ji Ya or Fierce, this is the correct grammar, because through the I Ching set of things, it can only be the conclusion of Fierce or Ji.
Why can you only come to such a conclusion, because this conclusion can never be wrong, you go out tomorrow to seek revenge on the enemy, and as a result, you are killed by the enemy with a knife, can you say that the calculation is not accurate?
Of course not, because the auspicious he said is likely to fall on your son, or even your grandson, which is called Sai Weng's loss of horse and knowledge of non-blessing, and Sai Weng's loss of horse is not a disaster.
In theory, Zhou Yi can never be wrong, this is the reason why this system can always exist, even if it is proved that the calculated auspicious murder is not right, but there are still many people who say that Zhou Yi itself is good, but it is only by the later people, to make a miasma.
Then let us see what the primitive I Ching looked like, the most primitive way of divination in ancient times, which required the use of two things, one thing called yarrow, and one thing was a big turtle.
Yarrow in the eyes of the ancients is a good thing, is a very spiritual grass, it has a very unique shape, from a root can grow a hundred stems, the height of the stem up to a zhang, if the yarrow grows to this scale, then it will be guarded by a turtle below, there will be auspicious clouds above.
This look is not a mortal product, there is a big turtle, the oracle bone we can see today, is the result of the Shang Dynasty divination, why use the two things of yarrow and turtle as a tool for divination.
This brings us to the fundamental question of why divination is magical, and the reason why divination is magical in the eyes of the ancient Chinese people is because the two things of turtle and yarrow can be channeled, specifically the communication of the ancestors.
Last week, the ancestors were very worshipped, and even the entire Chinese civilization has maintained ancestor worship so far, and last week, they believed that yarrow and turtles could communicate with the ancestors, so that they could get the conclusion of auspiciousness, these two things, also known as psychic mediums.
This is the essence of divination, so why must it be yarrow and turtle, because the older the object, the more refined it is, and these two things are the things that the ancients have lived the longest within the cognitive range, so they use these two things as a psychic medium, so that they can communicate with their ancestors.
Why is it said now that divination does not work, not that the yarrow and the turtle cannot be found, even if the yarrow cannot find the kind of appearance mentioned in the history books, the turtle can always be found, not the turtle and the yarrow, but the absolute belief in the ancestors.
The fundamental principle of divination is to believe that it is possible to communicate with ancestors or other mysterious forces, so that we can draw a good and evil conclusion, but in today's China, we fundamentally do not believe in the existence of such a force.
Therefore, whether it is a real ancient law or a real I Ching, it is not accurate at all, nor does it need to be believed, after all, even in the hearts of the people who calculate the gua, there will be no absolute belief in the ancestors and gods.