Family Bookshelf (I) - Full Week Yi Jing

Author: (Business) Ji Chang
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The Book of Changes is the foremost of the Five Classics and a profound branch of Chinese classics, as well as the earliest discipline to reveal the mysteries of the universe and human life. There are four reasons to collect this book:
1. Prominent Cultural Status: The Thirteen Classics form the foundation of traditional culture, and the Book of Changes is the foremost among them.
2. Exquisite Dialectical Thinking: Establishing the way of heaven, it emphasizes the opposition and unity of yin and yang, inspiring people to recognize patterns and grasp the future.
3. Profound Life Experience: Establishing the way of humanity, it advocates treating others with kindness and governing oneself with strictness, improving one’s cultivation to secure a meaningful life.
Home Collection Treasure: Authoritative interpretation presents profound knowledge in an accessible way, making it a premium home collection.
A comprehensive view of the Book of Changes reveals its most striking feature—its practicality. It elaborates on all aspects of the universe, natural phenomena, and social life from a philosophical perspective, clarifying the laws of movement and change, and imbued with simple materialist dialectics. Especially in ethics, thinking methods, transformations of things, metabolism, military strategies, criminal justice, marriage and funeral rites, marital relationships, family education, emotions, home and travel, birth and death, as well as innovation and renewal, it offers judgments with universal patterns. It is a highly practical life textbook of ancient China, a model of combining abstract philosophy with real-world social reality.