A tentative analysis on Zhouyi copied on the Chu bamboo slips collected by Shanghai Museum

This paper is a tentative achievement on Zhouyi copied on the Chu bamboo slips collected by Shanghai Museum and publicized recently. The paper points out that: 1. Because all the hexagrams in the Chu bamboo slips copy of Zhouyi were purely made up of the numbers of - (one) and A (eight) , it embodies that this copy was at the same historical and humanistic level with the Zhouyi copied on silk excavated at Ma-wang-dui, Changsha City, and slightly later than the copy on the bamboo slips unearthed at Fuyang, Anhui Province; 2. The reason for why the copy of the Chu slips only includes the Text but no the Commentaries is on account of its upholding the Text but looking down on the Commentaries (at that time); 3. The special marks at the head and end of each hexagram can neither conceive the dialectical thought of unity of oppositeness nor demonstrate that the Zhouyi of this copy was divided into two sections. This paper makes a reasonable analysis on the above-mentioned arguments.