Regarding to the metaphysics, I Ching teaches us 3 abstract concepts: change, easy, and non-change.
Regarding to the physics, I Ching teaches us 3 concrete images: number, philosophy and phenomenon. Now, how can we take use of these 3 images?
1. Number:
To use the numbers from Lo Shu and Ho Tu to make prediction for people’s future. According to Chinese legends, the pre-historic Emperor Yu wanted to control the disasters of rivers but useless; suddenly, a turtle came to the river Lo which carried a square picture, and there’re some numbers on the square. For Lo Shu, Lo means the name of river; Shu means book or picture. At the same time, a dragon horse (in the traditional Chinese, dragon is a lucky symbol) came from the Yellow River and carried another picture with different numbers. For Ho Tu, Ho means the name of Yellow River, Tu means the picture. It is said that these numbers and pictures help the Emperor Yu controlled the disasters from rivers. Since then, many of Chinese fortune-tellers believe that the numbers have a kind of magic power and use them to predict the destiny of people.
2. Philosophy:
“Everything is changing gradually in the universe” and “Nothing can maintain forever without changing.” are the main concepts in I Ching. From the modern history point of views, we can see that it is true. The general trend is that there is bound to be unified after prolonged division; division after prolonged unification. For example, the East Germany & West Germany (unification in 1990), the South Vietnam & North Vietnam(unification in 1976), the South Korea & North Korea, and China & Taiwan. Especially for the two sides of Taiwan Strait, we strongly believe that two sides will be unified in the future because they have same cultures, same language and same living habits. The unification is the responsibility of two sides, and they just need time to understand each other by keeping talks and reducing bias. When timing is mature, two sides will be unified soon.
3. Phenomenon:
Chinese legends said that about 6,700 years ago, a man name Fu Xi who observed the operation of celestial sphere(the metaphysics) and saw all motion of creatures on the earth (the physics). Then he created Ba Gua (eight trigrams) to symbolize the phenomenon. Each trigram has a special meaning in it. They would ask the wise man in the tribe to use the art of divining to tell them the results before they went hunting or attending a war. And 3,200 years ago, the King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, being prisoned in You Li (name of place), he had enough time to mediate everything; at that time, the society was more complicated and diverse than the society of Fu Xi. So he used the 8 trigrams time 8 trigrams resulting in 64 hexagrams which can analyze, resolve, and predict the results of things and events of people. But very few people understood the meanings of hexagrams; until 2,500 year ago, Confucius writes 10 books (Ten Wings) to explain the compositions and meanings of hexagrams. It’s said that Confucius had been a middle-class officer in the Lu State, but the governor of Lu State did not appreciate Confucius, so he felt a little bit sad. One day, Confucius went to street to take a view and suddenly he saw a blind fortune teller sitting on the corner of street, and he asked the soothsayer about his future career. The soothsayer used the art of divination to take a hexagram Huo Shan Ru(No.56) hexagram; Huo means fire, Shan means mountain, Ru means traveling. The complete explanation of this hexagram is that the condition of career is like a volcano; up is a fire, down is a mountain and the result is traveling, so it can’t maintain for a long time. Further said, the current job is just so so, and it is impossible to get further promotion. According to the ancient book, Confucius cried immediately after he listened the result of the divination. Confucius doubted that, why the hexagram can make so precise prediction of people’s future, so he began to study I Ching and collected his comments to become 10 books (Ten Wings).
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