《周易·咸卦》考

A textual research on the hexagram Xian in Zhouyi

《周易·咸卦》居于下经之首,对于咸卦卦名、卦辞及卦义的解释,从古到今,多达上百种。本文就作者所搜录的说法,可归结为三种:(一)感应说;(二)文王狱中受刑说;(三)出行的吉凶占卜纪录说。其中持"感应说"者又多有分歧。作者认为,《周易·咸卦》的本来意蕴是男女感应的动态过程描述。其现实意义是,它由此提出如何处理好人与自然、人与社会及人与人的关系问题。咸卦诠释的多样性,并非解释的混乱。从解释学的角度来看,这与《周易》简约的言词、卦象本身的性质、以及经典诠释者所受到的特定时代文化背景的影响有极大关系。

The hexagram Xian (Influence) was arranged as the first hexagram in part II in Zhouyi . There are as more as hundreds of interpretations, from the ancient times to the present, to the name of Xian , the remarks affiliated to it and its lines, and its implications. Basing upon what he had collected about the hexagram, the author classifies them into three: influence; King Wen's being tortured in prison; and divination for going out. And there are divergences of views among those who hold that Xian connotes influence. The author upholds that the hexagram Xian vividly describes a process of influence between two sexes, which is the original implication of Xian . Being based on this, the hexagram gives us a suggestion about how to deal with the relationships between human and nature, society, as well as human itself, which is its immediate significance. Diversity of the interpretations of the hexagram does not lead to interpretative confusion. By the hermeneutic views, this is greatly related to the conciseness of the remarks, the innate quality of the image, and specific impacts of contemporary cultural background upon the interpreter.