The Zhouyi is the Book of Changes, one of the Three Changes. Another view is that the Book of Changes is the Three Changes, not the Zhouyi. It is one of the traditional classics. According to legend, it was written by Jichang, King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, and its content includes two parts: the Classics and the Biography. The sutra mainly consists of sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines. Each hexagram and line has its own hexagrams and lines, which are used for divination. The biography contains seven kinds of texts explaining hexagrams and lines, a total of ten chapters, collectively called Shiyi, and is said to have been written by Confucius.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, official schools began to gradually evolve into private schools. The study of Yi followed each other and developed gradually. With the rise of hundreds of schools of thought, the study of Yi diverged accordingly. Since Confucius praised the Book of Changes, the Book of Changes has been regarded as the holy book of Confucianism and the first of the six classics. Outside of Confucianism, there are two branches of Yi that developed side by side with the Confucian school of change: one is Zhishu Yi, where the old forces still exist; the other is Laozi's Taoist Yi, which began to be divided into three branches.
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