The Interpretation Of Time In The Book Of Changes

The book "Zhou Yi","the depth of the universe,the beginning of the end of human affairs",the philosophy of "time" runs through its extensive and well-prepared system.Regardless of the ancient scriptures of the Zhouyi or the Yizhuan,“time” is one of the core concepts to understand the essence of the Zhouyi.This article attempts to systematically and comparatively analyze the time connotation of the Zhouyi on the basis of predecessors.The comparative analysis explores the inheritance and changes in the philosophical development of the "time" of the ancient scriptures of The Book of Changes,and at the same time explores the modernity of the time connotation of The Book of Changes.The interpretation of Zhouyi and the ancient scriptures of Zhouyi based on the perspective of time,which are originally the book of divination,look down on the heavens and the earth,and "time" originates from the changes of all things in the heaven and the earth.The time philosophy that interprets the ancient scriptures of the Zhouyi is not only analyzed from the perspective of the method of divination into hexagrams,but also from the time vocabulary contained in the hexagrams and lines,the emergence of agricultural time vocabulary,the time system of the heavenly stems and earthly branches,and the spatial Time words and so on are systematically classified and analyzed."The Book of Changes" really raises "time" to the height of philosophy."Twelve Divinations of Time" interprets the humanistic meaning of "time" in a centralized and systematic way.It is based on natural time such as heaven,earth,sun,moon,and four o’clock,which can be seen in the time in The Book of Changes inherits the "time" of the ancient classics of "The Book of Changes",and surpasses the "time" of the divination to form a cultural interpretation of time.The Book of Changes condenses "dao"(道),"yin(阴)and yang(阳)",and "time"."Rigid and soft","Benevolence and Righteousness","Heaven,Earth and Human Three Talents",etc.have expanded the extension of "time".The symbolic structure of the sixty-four hexagrams has more time development and explanatory meaning of change.The principles of life and destiny,the virtues of adults combining the sun,the moon,the world,and so on in the work of the sages have become the humanistic and philosophical extension of the "time" in The Book of Changes.The principles of "the use of time" are reflected everywhere in The Book of Changes.The sympathy of "time" connects with the love of all things in the world!The first chapter of this article explains the connotation of the universal,in the pre-Qin period,time civilization had important influence on later generations,and summarizes the background and main content of the Zhouyi.The second chapter systematically explains the content of the "time" in the ancient classics of "Zhouyi",collects the vocabulary of time in the way of close reading of the text,and summarizes it systematically from the two aspects of natural time and psychological time.The third chapter explains the content of "time" in Yizhuan,which is also divided into natural time and psychological time,and summarizes the development and inheritance of "time" from the dynamic perspective of synchronic and historical.The fourth chapter makes a general analysis of the history of Western time development,and at the same time compares the time philosophy of the pre-Qin Yi Studies in parallel,summarizes its commonalities,and excavates the modern connotation of the time of Zhouyi."Change" has always been the core of the "time" in The Book of Changes.Its uncertainty,integrity,and balance of mathematical structure echo the development of modern physics in the West.The whole article is based on the perspective of hermeneutics.The analysis of the philosophical connotation of "time" reveals that it far exceeds the shackles of the times,the world is most useful,and the distance is deep.