《周易》八卦變易思維及其文化蘊涵初探

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초록

Change is a constant process in the formation of the universe. ‘The Book of Change’ originates in Chinese cultural thought and is also a basis for the realization of what ancient Chinese people thought about the laws of nature.
The eight diagrams of ‘The Book of Change’, contain the methods by which ancient Chinese people reflected ‘observations about astronomy and geography’ and ‘considerations of the relationship between human beings and nature through transition in all creation’ and they analyzed this generally and specifically by changes to all creation.
Language is like a living fossil as well as a way for human beings to look at the laws of nature.
In ‘The Book of Change’, symbolic signification of change in the eight diagrams still remains in modern Chinese. Especially, it permanently and perfectly preserve among others, the four outstanding Chinese characters idioms.
The eight signs consist of heaven, earth, water, fire, wind, thunder, mountain, and marsh and these images are the symbols of changes in all fortunes, while at the same time they represent the symbols of eternal and unchangeable truths.
Ancient Chinese people deeply considered not only changes of sky and earth, alternations of day and night, and the four seasons but also in mountains, rivers, and all phenologies. and they reflected their thoughts in the eight diagrams; so regulation of ‘change’ is totally based on the regulation of nature.
This dialectic idea that recognizes matter from the viewpoint of change and development causes us to realize China’s overall balance and organic vision of the universe that continues dialectically to the present day.
As a result, all creation and human nature originate from changes in natural law, and human nature which remains on in language of posterity is handed down from generation to generation. ‘The Book of Change’ reflects how ancient Chinese people observed the heavens to know what changes were happening or had happened and used these observations to regulate society and people. It is referred to as ‘the thought of heaven and human’. The origination of this thought system resulted in the prediction of the future by observing the laws of nature because the ancient Chinese believed that human affairs could be changed by changes in nature; the essence of the true meaning of life in ‘The Book of Change’ is that it provides a method for people to know what is ‘Changeable and Perpetual”, and let people realize what is changed, how to deal with this change, and how to change one’s self appropriately in accordance with change, so it becomes an example for future generations of how to understand human behavior.
This great wisdom is the reflection of the traditional ‘combined virtues of heaven and human’, and is also a long standing symbol of Chinese culture.

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