An Abstract Analysis of the Emphasis on Life in Zhou Yi

Yin and Yang are the most important doctrines in Zhou yi and serve as a key to interpret it.They are also the key element and motive force in all things in the world.The understanding and exposition about life in this book are quite ab-stract and profound.The heaven,the earth,and the people in the universe co-exist in the vibrant macroscopic system,perme-ated with the thoughts of permanent Yi principle.The text starts with the Yin and Yang concept to discuss the Yi principle about life in Zhou yi,to size up why everything in the world lives,how to live,the status and goal of the life,and to dis-cover the humanism of the life in Zhou yi.