What are the two tools of the Book of Changes?

Two instruments, a Taoist cultural term, refer to the "yin and yang" in classical philosophy, which is dominated by black and white and is the foundation of Taoism. The beginning of heaven and earth, everything is chaotic, is for the infinite. Infinity begets Tai Chi, Tai Chi begets two instruments, and the two instruments are yin and yang. The Book of Changes: "It is easy to have Tai Chi, but the second instrument is born, the second instrument is born with four elephants, and the four elephants are born with gossip."

The four images refer to Lao Yang, Shaoyin, Shaoyang, Laoyin and Yizhuan, which are integrated with the four images of the stars. The green dragon in spring shows less sunshine, the white tiger in autumn shows less shade, the Xuanwu old shade in winter, and the Suzaku Lao Yang in summer. Eight diagrams (dry, right, divorced, true, smoked, watched, gen and Kun) are derived from these four images.

Eight diagrams is an abstruse philosophical concept of ancient Taoism in China. It is said to be the yin-yang theory of the ancient Han nationality. The so-called "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments (namely Yin and Yang), and the second instrument gives birth to four images (namely Shaoyang, Sun, Shaoyin and Taiyin), and the four images play eight diagrams and eight eight eight eight six hexagrams", which is also called Fuxi Eight Diagrams. According to these four images, the ancient physicians in China divided the Yin and Yang Qi of the human body, and analyzed the personality types of people according to their physiological characteristics and appearance.

I ching in a broad sense includes I ching and I ching. The Book of Changes is divided into 30 hexagrams and Xia Jing into 34 hexagrams. Because the Book of Changes was written very early, around the Western Zhou Dynasty, the meaning of words evolved with the development of the times, and the content of the Book of Changes was not easy to read in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so people in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (represented by Confucius) wrote Ten Wings, also known as the Book of Changes, to interpret the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes, an ancient philosophical book reflecting changes, has long been chosen by random numbers for divination.

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(A) two tools and economy

The great economic enlightenment of Zhouyi is the view of yin and yang. According to the dynamic and static view of Yin and Yang, the first innovation of Taiji, the general source of human economic activities, is to find a stable and reasonable subjective value from the subjective value of consumers, followed by the subsequent innovation of private and public consumption wealth.

Economics believes that all final goods directly or indirectly act as a means of life desire, and all goods that can satisfy human life desire are effective. Personal consumption theory and asset selection theory are based on this. Through exchange transactions, coupled with the improvement of the competitiveness of the trading market, reasonable and stable objective value creation can be derived.

Objective value can be applied not only to the measurement and analysis of microeconomics such as consumers and producers, but also to the measurement and analysis of a country's macro-economy. The objective value of macroeconomics is usually just the direct superposition of microeconomics.

A reasonable two-instrument analysis of the industry-related price-quantity model obtained from the value flow of a country's economic activities can also confirm Zhou Lianxi's Taiji diagram theory, that is, "Tai Chi moves and produces Yang".

In addition, according to the activities of manufacturers, the weak agreement that the economic environment is silent to manufacturers, and the strong agreement that manufacturers have something to say to employees, through the analysis of the neutralization of employment and investment market, it can also be pointed out that neutralization is an analytical concept of China culture, which can include both balance and various motives of "moving for the Tao".

(B) three talents and economy

The Book of Changes says: "The movement of Liuhe is the way of three poles (that is, the three talents of heaven and earth)." The world is dominated by the three talents of heaven, earth and man, so the three talents are determined, conscious and emotional. If you want to dominate, you must have spiritual actions, so the three talents also have all the meaning of spirituality.

Economics assumes that people's desires are endless, so every consumer's pursuit of subjective direct utility is spiritual; However, due to the objective limitation of consumption expenditure budget, it is a spiritual place.

Similarly, the pursuit of social welfare by social collective consumption is a spiritual day; But objectively restricted by the government's consumption expenditure budget, it is a spiritual place. Pursuing objective profit is the spiritual day of every producer, but it is spiritual because of the limitation of production technology.

If we regard the positive problems of consumption activities as the intersection of heaven and earth, the positive problems of social collective consumption led by politics and economy as the intersection of adults and positions, and then combine the positive problems of production activities, we have fully demonstrated the divination of dry divination.

If the duality of consumption activities is regarded as the yin of heaven, the duality of social collective consumption led by politics and economy is regarded as the yin of people, and the duality of production activities is regarded as the yin of status, and then combined, it will be manifested as the divination of Kun Gua. Bagua symbolizes heaven and earth with Gan Kun and determines the position of heaven and earth, which is the positioning of heaven and earth in the Book of Changes.

(C) Five Elements and Economy

"Spring and Autumn Fan Lu Wuxing Dui" discusses that the cycle of the five elements is a production cycle of birth, growth, cultivation, harvest and storage. From Tibet to life, it is actually an anti-Tao movement. Therefore, there is no reasonable connection between production activities and consumption and investment activities, and a complete causal cycle of economic activities cannot be formed.