Three Easy Communication

Author: Zhu Xingguo
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book sets aside the old theories of predecessors and directly explores the constitutive principles of the Three Yi from the ancient Yi classics. It ultimately reveals that the Three Yi follow the theory of the Eight Trigrams and their cyclical dominance and recess in the four seasons to infer auspiciousness and inauspiciousness. The theory of the Eight Trigrams uses the eight life states of plants throughout the eight seasonal divisions of a year as a reference to reveal the connection between movement and time-space. The trigram images are derived from the original meanings of the Eight Trigrams. The Eight Trigrams follow the sequence of the eight seasonal divisions in a cycle of eight fortunes: King, Minister, Fetus, Dying, Dead, Captive, Wasted, and Rest. When in season, they dominate; when out of season, they rest. The superposition of the Eight Trigrams generates the sixty-four hexagrams. In the sixty-four composite hexagrams, the upper trigram represents the season, and when it is in season, it is in a state of prosperity. The state of the upper trigram determines the movement of the lower trigram, and auspiciousness or inauspiciousness is inferred based on the movement of the lower trigram. Generally speaking, encountering the King or Minister phases brings auspiciousness, while encountering the Fetus, Dying, Dead, Captive, Wasted, or Rest phases brings inauspiciousness. The Three Yi first infer auspiciousness or inauspiciousness based on the theory of the Eight Trigrams' dominance and rest, and then elaborate on it through the imagery of the trigrams. By studying the Three Yi according to the theory of the Eight Trigrams' dominance and rest, one realizes that the Yi classics are indeed easy to learn, and long-standing disputes within the field of Yi studies are also resolved. The book is divided into several parts, including the Zhou Yi, Gui Zang, Lian Shan, and Special Studies, making it a valuable reference for researchers and learners of the Three Yi.