《世说新语》所见《周易》的应用——以“立象设卦”为中心

The Application of Zhou yi in the Shi shuo xinyu:Focusing on “Setting up Images to Establish Hexagrams”

“立象设卦”思维广泛存在于《世说新语》诸条目中,学界对此鲜有关注。概言之,《世说新语》的“立象设卦”有立一象设卦和立两象设卦两种方式。结合汉末、魏晋易学的时代背景来看,这种思维方式的形成源于汉人对《周易》在具体生活语境中的运用,同时亦有赖于王弼提炼的“得意忘象”说。

The idea of “establishing a hexagram by image” is widely present in various entries in the Shi shuo xinyu(A New Account of the Tales of the World), to which academic circles rarely paid attention. In a nutshell, there are two ways in the book to establish a hexagram — establish a hexagram by one image or by two images. Combining the background of the Changes scholarship in the late Han dynasty(202 BCE-220 CE), the Wei(220-265) and Jin(265-420) dynasties, it can be seen that the formation of this way of thinking originated from the Han people’s use of the Zhou yi in their specific life contexts, and at the same time, it also relied on Wang Bi’s(226-249) theory of “forgetting images once one obtains the ideas”.