从楚地出土易类文献看《周易》文本早期形态

On the earlier forms of the Zhouyi by the literature of the Yi excavated in Chu

从楚地出土的多种易类文献来看,《周易》一书在形成与起源之初表现出了种种样态。至少形成了三种使用周易的方式,即“只用易卦”的方式、“实用筮书”的方式以及“经典文本”的方式。在《周易》经典文本的定型过程中,《周易》文本早期形态在占筮内容、文献编撰、易类体例以及卜筮关系等诸多方面得以充分展开。

By a variety of the literature of the Zhouyi excavated in Chu, it can be seen that, in the earlier period, the Zhouyi as a book owns different forms. There were at least three kinds of form at that time： one style only adopts the hexagrams; one style is exhibited as a practical divinatory book and another is manifested as a classic text. In the process of taking shape of the Zhouyi as classic text, the earlier form of the Zhouyi text including divinatory contents, literature compilation, layouts of the Yi, and the relationship between tortoiseshell divination and yarrow-stalk divination was fully unfolded.