重卦问题再辩

Rearguing the Question of the Doubling of Trigrams

学者们在讨论今、帛本卦序的先后问题时通常有一个隐含的逻辑,那就是八卦相重的帛本卦序与“非覆即变”的今本卦序存在着紧密的关联,这种固有思维在一定程度上受到了“重卦说”的影响。实际上,重卦问题与今、帛本卦序的先后问题并不存在相关性,不能以“重卦说”合理与否来判定今、帛本卦序孰先孰后,同样也不能以今、帛本卦序的先后来判定“重卦说”是否合理。八卦和六十四卦分别属于两种不同思维模式的系统,六十四卦的卦爻画更有可能来源于已经初步具有阴阳卦画思维特质的六爻数字卦,而不是八卦。不过,由于八卦思维在占筮实践中的广泛应用,六十四卦系统在发展的过程中与八卦系统相互影响相互融合,“重卦说”很可能就是在这种情况下产生的。

When scholars were discussing the order of hexagrams in the received version and the silk version of Zhouyi,there was usually an implicit logic that the order of hexagrams in the silk version in which the eight trigrams overlapped each other is closely related to the order of hexagrams in the received version which obeys the rule of"inversion or conversion",This inherent idea was influenced by the"Repetitive Trigrams Theory"to a certain extent.In fact,there is no correlation between the issue of repetitive trigrams and the order of hexagrams in the received version and the silk version of Zhouyi.Whether the"Repetitive Trigrams Theory"is reasonable or not cannot be used to determine which order of hexagrams is first or later.On the other hand,which order of hexagrams is first or later cannot determine whether the"Repetitive Trigrams Theory"is reasonable or not.Eight trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams belong to two systems with different modes of thinking.The lines of the sixty-four hexagrams are more likely to be derived from the sixline numerical hexagrams,which had initially possessed the cognitive characteristics of the concept of yin-yang,rather than eight trigrams.However,due to the widespread application ofeight trigram thinking in the practice of divination,the sixty-four hexagram system interacted and merged with the eight trigram system during the development process.It is likely that the"Repetitive Trigrams Theory"cameinto beingunder suchcircumstances.