论卦变是理解卦爻辞的总纲

On Guabian(Interchanging Hexagrams)as the Foundation of Interpreting the Book of Changes

卦变在易学史上争议很大,有人认为卦变存在,有人否定卦变存在。承认和否定卦变最大的区别在于对待《彖传》的态度,即《彖传》是否具有解释卦爻辞的权威性。如果认为解释卦爻辞不能离开《彖传》的提示,那么,不承认卦变就站不住脚。《彖传》有很多爻变的提示,纵观历代《易》注,不承认卦变者几乎都注得模棱两可,甚至作者自己都不知所云。不承认卦变的存在,就不符合《周易》卦爻辞成书的实际过程,因为只有通过卦变引发的象的变化,才能把卦爻辞每个字的来源讲明确。

There are many different opinions towards guabian 卦 变(interchanging hexagrams)because some experts throughout the history of the Book of Changes admit that phenomena is reasonable,but others tend to deny it.I argue that whether guabianis reasonable depends on the understanding of the Tuan Commentary(tuanci彖辞),i.e.whether the Tuan Commentary has authority in interpreting the basic text of the Yijing.As long as we consider that it is impossible to understand the words regarding hexagrams and lines without the Tuan Commentary,it is unreasonable to deny the explanatory power of interchanging hexagrams(guabian).Without understanding the guabian,it is extremely difficult to understand certain words related to interchanging hexagrams in the Tuan Commentary.These words in the Tuan Commentary are the most difficult,and those commentators who failed to understand the interchanging hexagrams(guabian)were normally unclear,and sometimes did not even know what was going on in their own commentaries.Also,it is not reasonable to understand the historical process how the wording regarding hexagrams and lines came into being,because it is through the interchanging of hexagrams(guabian)that ancient sages could read the changing images and wrote down the words of 64 hexagrams and 384 lines.