Abstract

The thinking of “Yidao” started by Zhouyi is, under the mysterious mask of witchcraft, one of the early-mature, profound, broad and powerful cultural deposits of the Chinese nation. That Zhouyi conceives such cultural deposits is due to its thinking trait of “adopting xiang” and “xiangyijinyi”. Once this sort of “Xiang thinking” originating from the remote ages and becoming mature in the age of Zhouyi is properly expressed at a theoretical level, for example, via the system of 64 gua, it will exert great and far-reaching influences on the advancement of the “primordially creative” thought and culture. Albeit the mask of witchcraft is often employed to take advantage of the superstitious, great thinkers through all the ages are capable of penetrating the mask and, by virtue of the enlightenment from the primordially creative thinking of Zhouyi, promoting the progress of Chinese thought and culture.