왕필, 하안, 그리고 『주역』

Abstract

Wangpi was an expert in the Book of Changes under a family tradition which continued from generation to generation. Heyan recognized young Wangpi as a genuine scholar. Heyan accepted Wangpi’s interpretation even though other people doubted it. Indeed, some of Wangpi’s ideas were very similar with Heyan, but Wangpi was against the emotionlessness of sagehood which was maintained by Heyan. While the sage who is talking under Laozi is not emotional, Wangpi’s sage fulfills himself in his emotion. It shows us Wangpi’s thought declining toward Confucianism. Wangpi radically denied the variations of the hexagram which were played with by scholars of the Han dynasty. He suggests that a symbol of Yin and Yang within the hexagram is more important for explaining the Book of Changes than variations of the hexagram. One symbol becomes a lord of the hexagram. Therefore, Wangpi’s body (ti) indicates only the hexagram. His body is not related to essence (ti) or its utility (yong) from Confucian thinking of the Song Ming dynasty. Wangpi instead stresses utility. It is a beneficial and utilitarian way of thinking in the Book of Changes.