2. Refers to the origin or fundamental law of all things. Book of Changes: "It is easy to have Tai Chi, that is, two instruments are born, two instruments are born with four images, and four images are born with eight diagrams." "Easy, get things done. Take the road of the world. " "It is easy to fit in with heaven and earth, so it can help us understand the way of heaven and earth." "Easy, mindless, inaction, silence, motionless, and feel the world."
3, the specific meaning, there are many statements.
(1) The original meaning is lizard, which is extended or changed under the guise. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Yi, (lizard), Yi Ting, guarding the palace. Pictographic. " Yi is the original word for lizard. Such small animals are fickle, so they are regarded by the ancients as sacred objects to detect the rise and fall of rigidity and softness, and the flexion and extension of yin and yang. Extension means "change". Notes in Duan Yucai's Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Meaning and image are ancient names". "The meaning is clear and easy, but the meaning is difficult and difficult."
(2) Pour water with both hands. Oracle Bone Inscriptions Yi's picture shows that he holds a water container with both hands and pours water into another container. Later generations think that two containers hold water, which means more rewards and more changes. Some people think that inscriptions on bronze inscriptions are the result of the gradual simplification of words.
(3) Life is easy. The Book of Changes says that everything in the universe is endless and changes endlessly. Simile people think: "Confucianism understands' Yi' as change and affairs. It is better to understand' Destiny is Yi' as change and affairs in the copula. The five words are the most accurate."
(4) easy to be reversed. The language says, "Shuo Gua", "Yi, reverse the number." Understanding is different. I turned over the note and said, "It is easy to say that it is dry, so it is contrary." "Dry chisel degree" cloud: "Easy gas from the bottom". Zheng Xuan's Note: "Meaning is invisible, from micro to dusk. Qi begins at birth and begins at the bottom, so it is called inverse number. Han Note: "Doing things is easy to see. It used to be a civilian. "Zhu Yijing, the original meaning of Yijing, quoted Shao Zi as saying:" From the beginning to Kun, there are unborn divinations. If the ratio of four seasons is reversed. "Li Daoping's Book of Changes Ji Jie Shushu": "At the beginning, Kun was shocked, and then he left the ridge. The three lines were exchanged, which was the inverse number. "
(5) It is easy to contain three meanings. "Easy Jane one also, change two also, not easy to three also. (Easy dimension dry chisel); Zheng Xuan's Yi Zan and Yi Lun are combined to understand that change embodies the essence of the eternal movement of all things in the universe. It is difficult to explain the relative static state of the movement of things and the relative stability of the law of the development of the universe; Yi Jian explained the mysterious and concise nature of the change law of Yin and Yang in Gankun.
(6) Yi has five meanings: buying and selling, trading, anti-yi, exchange and transfer. (Mao Qiling's Zhong Yi) It is easy to express the changing movement of everything in the universe. Trading shows the interaction and transformation of the contradiction between Yin and Yang in the universe, but Yi refers to the repeated changes behind the spear of Yin and Yang, the opposite development of the spear of Yin and Yang, and the up-and-down movement of the contradiction between Yin and Yang.
(7) Easy as the sun and the moon. "Zhouyi Ci": "Those who change are like. Elephants like it, too. " Like in heaven, like on earth. Hanging like a bright lamp is nothing more than the sun and the moon. "Han people take this saying more." Renaming has four meanings, the balance between the sun and the moon. "("Yi Gan Wei Kun Chishui ")" Easy, the sun and the moon are also. " (Zheng Xuan's Book of Changes) "The sun and the moon are easy, quite rigid." In modern times, it may be thought that the sun is the best and the moon is the best. "Yi" symbolizes the change of Yin and Yang and has abstract philosophical significance.
(8) It is easy to predict. "Guanzi Mountain Spring" "Those who change hands, so those who succeed or fail in good or bad luck." Jia Zi's "On Morality": "Those who change things will benefit from observing human nature and moral principles. Zheng Xuan's "Li Zhouguan's Pure Runway" notes: "The number of changes can be accounted for." .
(9) Yi is the body of the universe. Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty advocated this theory. Cheng Yi's "Cheng Zi's suicide note": "God's load is silent and tasteless, but its body is easy to change". Zhu explained: "Its body is easy, that is, the so-called space in Hengqu (Zhangzai) rises and falls and never stops." "From god's load, although silent and tasteless, its deformation is easy. However, it is a way to illustrate the principle of change. " "Yi, the intricate exchange of Yin and Yang is called Yi, such as cold and hot day and night, closed communication, between heaven and earth, yin and yang staggered, which is actually popular, and benefit and Tao are also the body. Cold living in the morning and evening, advocating exchanges, and realism is popular; Otherwise, the truth cannot be released, so it is said that it is easy. This truth is easy to say. " (According to Jiang Yong's Notes on Recent Thoughts)
(10) works well. Shao Yong's external view of things: "Yi is also used by God, so there is no body" and "God is also the master of Yi, so there is no way".
(1 1) is easy to be a conscience. "Conscience" in Wang Shouren's Biography in Ming Dynasty.
(12) Easy to get to a place name. Close to Xu Shida's explanation of the Book of Changes: "Ren Jin, the author of the Book of Changes, knows that the place where books are written is easy and the name of the Book of Changes is everywhere. Yi is the place where he wrote his book, and he went around looking for relatives and friends to save him. "
(13) Yi is the code word for "silkworm". Li Ziyao, a close friend, thinks that "Yi" in bronze inscriptions is a three-legged black shape, and "Yi" is originally a black word, implying silkworm. Finally, it is an allusion to Sun. "Yi" never falls from the sky, and "Don't" communicates with things, so "Yi" can be borrowed as "things", and trading is the delivery of things. There are many interpretations of Yi. It is generally believed that "Yi" is mainly based on the meaning of "Yi", and "Yi" can fulfill the meaning of "life is called Yi", transaction, anti-Yi, exchange and transfer. Other views are my own, either wrong or one-sided.