A New Interpretation on Yuan Heng Li Zhen in the Zhouyi

There are always various interpretations on four characters yuan which is in text of hexagram Qian. In Record of Wen Yan,the four characters was punctuated separately and formed famous theory of four virtues,that is,the first and chief quality of goodness,assemblage of excellences,the harmony of all that is right and the faculty of action. By contrast,some scholars punctuate four characters into two parts-yuan heng and li zhen. But this doesn't reach a consensus. For example,ZHU Xi interpreted li as li zai yu zheng (the advantageous lies in right),and GAO Heng said,li zhen means beneficial to This paper proposes that four characters should be punctuated into two parts,yet different from that of ZHU Xi and GAO Heng. Firstly,we prove that character is derived from character 饗 (entertain) so yuan heng means prayer of divination is enjoyed by spirits. Then we believe that zhen means beneficial to divine. Superficially,it seems to be an anomaly if first divine result asks diviner to make a divination again. However,this paper proves that ancient Chinese divination always make xi zhen (make a second divination).Li zhen is to guide diviner to make a second divination.