From Kun Gan to Gan Kun

In the 1920s and 1930s, the famous scholar Hu (1886- 1938) wrote a book called The Ancient and Modern Reading Law, which contained a passage:

I once heard a joke: a couple quarreled, and the woman said, "Men and women, men and women, men and women are in front, why should women listen to men?" Her husband said, "Men and women, men and women, yin and yang are unreliable. Don't you know the Book of Changes written by saints? "The Book of Changes" is in the front, and Kun is behind. " When the husband said this, the wife had nothing to answer. Oral litigation is losing.

Yes, why do men and women, men and women, yin and yang become dry Kun? Mr. Hu took it as a joke at first. As a result, he thought, "I didn't expect it to have a lot to do with ancient social history."

What caused Mr. Hu's cognitive change was reading Liu Yun, and Mr. Hu went on to write:

Later, when I read "Li Yun", there was a sentence in the middle: "I want to see Yin (Shang) Dao, which is a song of the past, but I don't have to ask for it, so I have to do it." I wanted to know the way of Yin Shang, so I went to Song State-Song was a survivor of Yin Shang, but it was not enough to prove it. I know Kun did it. Confucius advocated "I" and "I" between these two sentences. According to this sentence, it can be seen that the Book of Changes that Confucius saw in the Song State was that Kun was in the front and Kun was in the back. At first, there were many kinds of I Ching. Now we are reading the Book of Changes, which was originally "Kun Gan" in ancient times, but it was changed to "Gan Kun" in the Zhou Dynasty.

It seems that it corresponds to men and women, men and women, and yin and yang are "Kun Gan", and then it becomes "Kun Gan".

Don't underestimate the inversion of this word order: "Kungan" should come from matriarchal society and "Kungan" should come from paternal society. Is there no difference in word order? According to Engels, replacing matriarchal society with paternal society is "a historic failure of the female world". With the rise of the patriarchal society and the emergence of marriage, "Kun Gan" has become "Gan Kun", and the corresponding words are men and women, husband and wife, parents and so on. In fact, writing is epoch-making. With the help of epoch-making words, archaeology can be done, which may be called "Ci-Hua Archaeology". For example, the word "hero" must have originated in a patriarchal society. If it originated from matriarchal society, the word should be "British woman"!

Words reflect the times and record the history, so that Mr. Hu dare not regard the above jokes as "jokes".

Writing here, I suddenly thought of another joke that is not a "joke". The Duke of Zhou formulated "Zhou Li", which lasted for a long time. Therefore, in China culture, there is a saying that "the ceremony of three thousand years is the ceremony of the week". Wedding is an integral part of the Zhou ceremony, which advocates that men are superior to women, and husbands sing along with women (Confucius followed the Duke of Zhou and insisted on the Zhou ceremony, so he despised women very much). It is said that a woman in a certain dynasty was very unhappy and asked, "Zhou Li was created by the Duke of Zhou, so many women are bound." What if this gift was created by Mrs. Zhou? "This woman demands equality between men and women and emancipates her mind, which is commendable. But if it is not history, the wheel of history will roll to Duke Zhou, and the avenue will become public, dry and healthy; Kun Dao becomes a woman, Kun Zhe and Shun Ye, so what right does Zhou Po have to speak?