帛书易传《要》篇“五正”考释

Textual research on and interpretation of the term Wu zheng appeared in Chapter Yao of the silk manuscript of the Yi zhuan

马王堆帛书《要》篇有“五正”一词,乃为古代易学讲君道的特定术语。其内容是帝王取度于身所建立的规矩绳权衡五种法度,与八卦中的某些卦、四时和五方等相配纳,而形成的易学模式。此配纳模式说明,君主布施规矩绳权衡五正,其旨在因顺阴阳、谐和四时、理顺五行,以达致天人祥和的理想政治境界。此古《易》“五正”的要义,是君道合于天地、阴阳之道。

In Chapter Yao of the silk manuscript of the Yi zhuan, there is a term Wu zheng （Five Correct Principles）, a peculiar term for statecraft in the ancient Yi-ology, which correlates the five measuring methods to certain trigrams, four seasons, and five directions. This mode manifests the purpose for the monarch to carry on the Wu zheng is to follow the principles of Yin and Yang, conform to the five elements, and be in harmony with the motion of the four seasons, so as to attain to an ideal political realm in which the heaven and human are propitiously related. The essential of the Wu zheng is to reveal that the statecraft should be in alignment with the Way of heaven and earth as well as the principles of Yin and Yang.