I Ching can neither be summarized by the word science nor is it superstition. The I Ching observes and explains the natural laws of operation of all things in the universe. The I Ching deduces and reveals the process of interchanging and balancing yin and yang in the operation of all things in the universe through the sixty-four hung images, numbers, and reasoning, and therefore it is the first of all the Ching.

Pop quizAlthough it is not a science, its divination ideas of prediction, elephant number ideas of the universe on the interpretation of personnel, in the ancient times, the I Ching is the study of the future changes of things, used to guide the action of the divination book. Ancient people did not have weather forecasts, if you want to go to war tomorrow or go out of town, and the weather looks like it can not be judged, then first calculate a trigram to see how the will of heaven. In modern times, "Yi" is an irrational superstition, but in the early witch society, it can also be regarded as an abstract system of the world, and it was the "highest level" of abstract rationality at that time.

"Yi" the world of abstraction into eight basic concepts, that is, some folk superstitions now used by the magician gossip: dry, against, away from, Zhen, Xun, Xun, Kan, Burgundy, Kun. Each of these eight basic concepts represents a class of things, such as dry, the ancients used it on behalf of the sky, the father, the king, jade, gold, cold, ice, big red and so on, everything has a masculine, strong and healthy characteristics. Now the streets of Hong Kong and the end of the fortune-teller often also use it on behalf of superiors, leaders, officials, law enforcement, rich and wealthy and so on.

The use of this represents a variety of things gossip symbols, two by two, and composed of 64 hexagrams, which is known as the "Zhou Wenwang 64 hexagrams", in fact, is also a combination of these symbols, reasoning, and trying to represent all things in this way. In fact, there is no scientific reasoning. It can be said that this is actually similar to our use of mathematics to abstract the world again. Only the symbol system and world model of Yi is primitive.

In fact, what we call science developed in large part from these early human systems of abstract thought.

That is why theThe I Ching is not science. What is science? Science is the knowledge that proves the "laws of nature", that is, "scientific knowledge", which develops with the deepening of practice and understanding, practice first and then understanding, and understanding also develops with practice, which is called "materialism". Materialism".

The I Ching is the most fundamental philosophical foundation of all the world's learning; science is only a branch of philosophy, and the I Ching is much larger than the extension of science.

You can't say that the I Ching is scientific or not, meaning that you can't comment on I Ching from the standpoint of science, but only that science can or can't prove I Ching. Just as one cannot say whether a house is a beam or not, but only whether the beam can support the house.

I Ching is the root of our entire nation, is the total root of our Chinese culture, as a Chinese child to be proud of our ancestors have such awesome philosophical ideas. I Ching is the way of Chinese culture, science is at best a great weapon.

Learning Yi is to penetrate the Chinese people, understand the I Ching you penetrate the life, science is just a child's play.

The I Ching can fully interpret modern science, but modern science cannot fully interpret the I Ching.

The main content of the I Ching is the reasoning, the images and the numbers, which are fully capable of interpreting modern scientific knowledge.

For example, the most common substance "water", from the "elephant" point of view is very good to explain: water is colorless, tasteless and transparent liquid at room temperature, cooling can be frozen, heat can be vaporized. From the "reason" point of view to explain more, is an important substance that constitutes life, can be a solvent for a variety of substances, the world's most soft, but also the world's most rigid ...... from the "number" of decisions better explanation: density of 1000 kg / cubic meter, 4 ° C when the density of the largest, standard atmospheric pressure at 100 ° C when boiling ......

Modern science has no way to explain clearly, the study of the I Ching, you read the past, better grasp of the future. From the emperor to the general, down to the peddler, no one dares to blaspheme the I Ching, no way, that's it!

I have read the I Ching so many times, I just can't understand it, my comprehension is too poor to help, but I am still convinced of the high level of the I Ching, even though there are some elements that I still can't fully comprehend or even understand at all!

Personally, I understand that both I Ching and Buddhism are a type of philosophy. There are real individual examples of practice and a history of theoretical dialectic. [Praying] [Praying] [Praying] [Praying]

Touting the I Ching, basically did not study or learn mathematics, science and chemistry. Historical facts clearly show that the I Ching is nothing in front of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences. It cannot solve the problems of production and life, let alone solve the philosophical and spiritual problems. It has never brought China the slightest wealth and peace, progress and development! Thousands of years with the I Ching, thousands of years of backwardness, war and famine. Societies changed, patterns were repeated week after week, and there was basically no major progress!

The I Ching speaks of reason, culture, and the laws of the development of things. It is the relationship between heaven and earth and man. It belongs more to the category of culture, which cannot be measured by scientific standards, just as science cannot measure love and poetry.

The study of the I Ching can make a person intelligent and open-minded, and is therefore helpful to the development of any industry, not only to Chinese medicine. Because after the development of any industry to the extreme, the reason is the same, this is actually the objective law of the development of things.

Friends asked the I Ching is science? Answer: I Ching is not science, is the understanding of the laws of nature, it is higher than science, is the carrier of science, science and his relationship is a mother-child relationship, if the I Ching is a metaphor for the school, then science is the school students. The greatness of the I Ching is encompassing the law of change of nature, for human beings, where natural things only to recognize, because human beings do not have the ability to reverse, that is to say, can not be researched, which is why it is called "Xuan" reason. Science is different, it is the product of law, is human behavior, so I Ching can explain science, and science can not explain I Ching. The two are completely different concepts, there is no comparison.

Here come the pros! High-energy and brain-burning ahead, so be careful with your brain. Let's start with the first question.

The Dual Meaning of "Easy"

There are two meanings of Yi, one is the Yi of simplicity, and the other is the Yi of change, which, when combined, is the study of change after it has been simplified.

Briefly:

1. Taiji gives birth to two yi:The innate state of Taiji Chaos is divided into two attributes, yin and yang;

2. The two instruments give birth to four elephants:The yin and yang continue to be dichotomized into four signs, namely, Shaoyang, Taiyin, Sun, and Shaoyin;

3. The four elephants give birth to the eight trigrams:The four elephants continue to combine, divided into Qian兑离震巽坎艮坤the eight trigrams, table all the elephants.

the Eight Trigrams of Heaven (a form of Chinese medical text)

4. Bagua Mo Dang for sixty-four hexagrams.

Everything can be divided into yin and yang, four signs, eight trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams. Each layer is more detailed and more usable.

Sixty-four hexagrams can continue to be born, "easy" to turn events into everything - simple? This is the simplicity of easy.

Changes in the trigrams - this is the "Yi" of change.

It may sound abstract, so let's give a chestnut.

Does everyone know?

1. The most basic component of the computer is a diode, each diode on and off, is the binary 0 and 1, is the yin and yang in the Tai Chi.

2. Then on this basis, through the binary, the formation of machine language, and then the formation of assembly language, and then the formation of the upper layers of the computer operating system, application software, images, screens, interaction, the formation of colorful applications.

However, everything we see and do on a computer is, at the bottom, a diode switch.

3. Just as, at the bottom of everything, there can be a division of yin and yang, of the four signs, of the eight trigrams, of the sixty-four hexagrams.

I don't know if I understand what I'm saying? It doesn't matter if you don't, the following is even more brain-burning, haha. Because too many people don't have a comprehensive enough understanding of the current human knowledge system.

Here, challenge the second question.

Is the I Ching a science?

Before I answer that question, let me ask another one:

Is "geocentrism" science?

A: Of course. "Geocentrism is a doctrine of astrophysics, and since astrophysics is a branch of science, geocentrism certainly belongs to the realm of science.

So, is "geocentric" correct?

Of course not, at least not with the current development of our astrometric research, which is wrong.

So, since scientific "geocentrism" is incorrect, does science = correct? Is what is correct and useful necessarily scientific?

Let's look at the definition of science:

Science, an orderly system of knowledge based on testable explanations and predictions of the form, organization, etc. of objective things, is knowledge that has been systematized and formulated.

The connotation of science is its corresponding research methodology, and the results it produces.

From the first paragraph above, I have tried my best to explain the underlying logic of Yi, and here I have concisely stated the kernel of science. If you are interested, you can search Descartes' "theory of reduction" (also called "reductionism") to understand the underlying logic of scientific research. Yes, the same Descartes who said "I think, therefore I am".

René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher

Here, we come to a staged conclusion:

At the heart of science is its systematic approach to research and its conclusions; science is evolving, science is not the same as correctness, and science does not cover everything.

Here, I'll give a direct conclusion:

• 1. The I Ching is not science, and science is not the I Ching. The two are a juxtaposition, i.e., they are not subordinate, nor are they mutually exclusive.
• 2. The I Ching is an independent set of methodologies for understanding the world and studying it, as is science.
• 3. I Ching is not science, science is not theology, theology is not Buddhism, Buddhism is not metaphysics ...... Feel free to add.

Over the course of thousands of years, mankind has developed several systems of perception of the world. We live in an era of scientific progress, benefiting from science and relying on it to sustain us.

However, for a person who wants to make his mind and cognitive system as sound as possible, he should not be so set in his ways that he blithely limits his thinking to the range of human activity of the last hundred years, and relegates the wider course, the deeper human experience, simply to the superstitious or the elementary.

Perhaps there will be more inspiration there, for us humans.

Confucius praised the Ten Wings and took credit for popularizing the use of the I Ching.

I am Zeng Zaizhen, I hope my answer can help you.

I Ching" is an ancient group of people trying to find the methodology and epistemology to observe the world; understanding and analysis of things; the use of a principle or means of changing things can be attributed to "science", another group of Confucian and Taoist monks who use the "I Ching" to peep at the law of life of the individual can be regarded as a kind of scientific behavior, as for the use of the "I Ching" to engage in fortune-telling and fortune telling As for the use of the "I Ching" to engage in fortune-telling and divination behavior is some people's means of livelihood, there is no excuse, today is not also the use of "latitude" concept; time travel and other relativistic physical science cognition to make a living as a self-media to earn money and wrestle for attention? This is also the case!