Is the Book of Changes the secret to achieving great things? ──The future of Hong Kong legend

According to records, one night, King Wen couldn’t sleep, so he got up and put on his clothes, stood in front of the small window of the prison, stared at the night sky, and remembered how similar his current situation was to what his father had experienced more than 40 years ago – King Wen’s father Ji Li was a general of the Shang Dynasty and was victorious in every battle. However, this aroused the jealousy of King Wen Ding, the grandfather of King Zhou of Shang. He deceived Ji Li into Chaoge, seized all the spoils, and then imprisoned Ji Li. and tortured him to death.

This also reminded King Wen of the time when Chengtang had a high reputation, which aroused the jealousy of Xia Jie, so Xia Jie sent envoys to summon him to the capital of Xia King and imprisoned him in prison. Later, Cheng Tang survived a narrow escape and returned to his country. He responded to the call of the princes in the world to attack Xia, and finally destroyed the Xia Dynasty. He was then elected as the emperor and became the founding king of the Shang Dynasty. King Wen thought that since King Zhou was so unkind Unjust, should I follow the example of Cheng Tang, the founder of the Shang Dynasty, and uphold justice for heaven?

Legend has it that at this moment, King Wen saw the stars in the sky, with the sun, moon and stars all in their places and performing their duties. It was as if he had gained insights from the celestial phenomena, and he suddenly thought, would the human affairs on earth and the rise and fall of dynasties also be the same? So? He realized at that time that the laws governing the universe should also apply to the human world! As King Wen thought about it, he felt like he was enlightened and suddenly transcended from the misery of grief and entanglement. He then made up his mind to find out the laws governing the ups and downs of the world, so as to overthrow King Zhou and seek justice for himself and his father.

So King Wen took yarrow from the garden, folded it into several sections, and used his memory to lay out the hexagram diagram of the innate eight trigrams on the ground, and continued to deduce it over and over again. King Wen understood his own destiny and the mission of the Ji family from different hexagrams, and also saw the laws of operation of everything in the world. On the basis of the innate Bagua, King Wen rearranged the order and deduced the Acquired Bagua, which was combined with the innate Bagua created by Fuxi in legend to form the eighty-eight and sixty-four hexagrams of the “Book of Changes” that we see today. It is the root of Feng Shui, numerology, arithmetic and other knowledge later developed by the Chinese nation. Some commentators even deduced that the “Book of Changes” is the first classic of China. It is not only the first and the beginning of the group of classics, but also the overall source of Chinese culture.