《周易》“中和”价值论蠡测——以乾卦经、传为中心

On the Value Theory of“Neutralization”in Zhouyi——Focusing on Classics and Biography of Heaven Diagram

《易传》从宇宙论高度提出“保合太和”的价值原理,又结合爻位说将其向下落实为一种蓄潜戒亢、中正为吉的实践智慧。《易传》“中”“用中”的观念,集中表现在六十四卦的《彖辞传》及各卦二爻、五爻的《象辞传》中。在六爻构成的卦体结构中,初爻、四爻居于上下两体的下位,有似“不及”;三爻、上爻居于上下两体的上位,有似“过之”,均不是完美的位相;二爻、五爻分别居下体、上体的“中”位,象征处事得“中”,与其他爻相比,多得吉辞。《周易》乾卦《彖辞传》《象辞传》《文言传》传文,集中体现了“保合太和”而“中正为吉”的实践价值取向。

Yi Zhuan puts forward the value principle of“keeping harmony”from the cosmological point of view,and combines with the theory of position to implement it as a kind of practical wisdom of accumulating potential,abstaining from hyperactivity and being positive for good.The concepts of“middle”and“middle use”in Yi Zhuan are mainly embodied in the biography of Yuci Zhuan in 64hexagrams and the biography of Xiangci Zhuanin two and five hexagrams.In the structure of hexagram formed by the six trigrams,the first and the fourth ones are in the lower position of the upper and the lower ones,which is similar to“inferior”;the third and the upper ones are in the upper position of the upper and the lower ones,which are similar to“over”,which are not perfect;the second and the fifth ones are in the“middle”position of the lower and the upper ones respectively,which symbolize“middle”in dealing with affairs,which is more auspicious than other ones.Heaven diagram in Zhouyi,Yuci Zhuan,Xiangci Zhuan and Wenyan Zhuan embody the practical value orientation of“keeping harmony and being good”.