虞翻象视域下的《周易》诠释探微

On Yu Fan’s Approach to the Zhou Changes on the Basis of Images

在汉代经学的氛围下,虞翻开出了象视域下的《周易》诠释之路。他采纳各种象数体例与学说,用以找出经文中所涉及的象,象成了他诠释《易》的支点。这些象,广泛指向人所置身其中的大千世界、人文天下的万物万象。虞翻指出,《易》开示人们的最本原之象是日月悬天所成的八卦之象,其次是卦爻符显的大千世界阴阳消息下的万物万象。立足大千世界、人文天下之整体,《易》启示了万物万象的理想境地,即大千世界与人文天下的和谐祥泰,以此彰显了这部王者之书的宗旨。

Under the circumstance and trend of classical studies of the Han dynasty(206 BCE-220 CE),Yu Fan(164-233)initiated a method interpreting the Zhou Changes on the basis of images.He adopted various image-numerological approaches and theories to find out the images involved in the basic text and Ten Wings of the Zhou Changes.Images thus became the pivot for him to interpret the Changes.These images are associated with the myriad things and events in the natural world and human society.In his eyes,the primal images revealed by the Changes were the eight trigrams associated with the moon phases and the sun suspended in the vault;and the secondary level of images refer to the myriad things and phenomena symbolized by the hexagrams and lines.Based on the myriad things and phenomena of the natural world and human society,the Changes revealed an ideal realm,under which all things coexist in harmony.In this way,the final purpose conceived in the Changes to be realized through sage-kings’benevolent governance is manifested.