From Jing Fang’s Yi-ology And Field-Being Philosophy To The Harmony Between Heaven And Human

Zhouyi, which has been honored as the most significant one in Five Classics since Han Dynasty, is always the academic focus of scholars. Ancient Jing Fang’s Yi-ology and contemporary Tang Liquan’s Yi-ology are conceived as two excellent masterpieces in the studies of Zhouyi. Based on these two quintessential theories, this dissertation attempts to explores the characters of ancient Yi-ology, and elaborate the essences and features of relationship between heaven and human in ancient time and contemporary world.The studies on Zhouyi enter the first golden age in Han Dynasty, and Jing Fang’s Yi-ology is the most typical one in these studies. Through constructing the cosmology of ‘eight diagrams’ initially, Jing Fang make the philosophical thought of Zhouyi more systematic and theoretical, and make the application of Zhouyi in real life more available, which has a profound influence on later Yi-ology.The Field-Being philosophy is put forward by Mr. Tang Liquan. By regarding Zhouyi as a paragon of Chinese ancient philosophical thinking mode and making a comprehensive study in Chinese philosophy, western philosophy and Indian philosophy, Tang Liquan raises his own theory which is conceived as a typical theoretical pattern in contemporary philosophy. In other words, the field-being philosophy can seen as an creative development and elaboration of traditional Yi-ology in the sense of contemporary philosophy.This dissertation attempts to interpret the theories of ‘eight diagrams’ and Five Elements in Jing Fang’s Yi-ology from the perspective of Field-Being Philosophy. Interpreting Jing Fang’s Yi-ology in this way, this dissertation tries to a further investigation and comprehension on the relationship between heaven and human.On one hand, the relationship between heaven and human is a significant topic in Chinese ancient philosophy, and Zhouyi is the first scholarly work that expounds this relationship systematically in a unique way which combine characters and symbols. On the other hand, both Jing Fang’s Yi-ology and the Field and Being philosophy are derived and developed from Zhouyi. So it is inferred that there are some inherent relations between Jing Fang’s Yi-ology and the Field-Being philosophy in the theme of the relationship of heaven and human.Based on these inherent relations, this dissertation attempts to expound Jing Fang’s Yi-ology from the view of Field-Being Philosophy in order to prompt our understanding about Zhouyi which is the most significant one in Five Classics, and interpret the theoretical meaning of the relationship between heaven and human from the original thinking mode and intuitive experience of our ancient sage. Zhouyi inaugurates the original thinking mode of trigram, Dong Zhongshu initiates the discussion about the relationship between heaven and human, and Jing Fang’s Yi-ology develops and amalgamates these two profound traditions. From the perspective of Field-Being philosophy, this dissertation will re-examines the relationship between the thinking modes of Zhouyi and the pattern of cosmology of Dong Zhongshu, and conclude these two theories can be integrated in the thesis of the harmony of heaven and human. The relationship between heaven and human is continuous, non-separated and integrated in the view of ancient sage, and this relation is conceived as an interrelated and interact one in Han Dynasty. This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the harmonious relationships between heaven and human from the perspective of Filed-Being philosophy.