JOURNAL OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY (Philosophy and Social Science) ›› 2016, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 66-71.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-6378.2016.05.010

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Establishing Laws According to the Nature,Centering around the People——The Thoughts of Managing the State Affairs in I Ching Exemplified by Hexagrams Lin and Guan

DONG Ye duo1,ZHAO Dong yang2   

  1. 1.School of Literature and Media,Hebei Normal University of Nationalities,Chengde,Hebei 067000;2.Research Department,Hebei Normal University of Nationalities,Chengde,Hebei 067000,China
  • Received:2016-06-03 Online:2016-09-25 Published:2016-09-25

Abstract: I Ching is a book that manifests the Law.This paper probes the thoughts of managing the state affairs exemplified by Hexagrams Lin and Guan.Observing the images in Hexagrams Lin and Guan and interpreting their judgments,one can find the thoughts of managing the state affairs in I Ching in the following 7 aspects:1.centering around the people when administering a country;2.tension alternating with relaxation;3.complying with the destiny of the Heaven and adapting to the mind of the people;4.making one’s words and action accord with the Golden Mean;5.being able to know and select talented persons;6.teaching and regulating the people by knowing their mind,and summing up the losses and gains;7.being inexhaustible in one’s will to teach and without limits in protection of the people.

Key words: I Ching, managing the state affairs, establishing laws according to the nature, centering around the people

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