This module treats the I Ching as the foundational work of ancient China's 'native systems theory,' exploring how its hierarchical structure of trigrams and hexagrams establishes the core idea that 'the world is amulti-level system whole’sphilosophical principlecore. Thissystemic modelreveals the evolutionary logic from the most fundamental binary relationship of 'Yin-Yang' to complex systems.

System View Based on Hierarchical Evolution

The I Ching establishes a three-dimensional systemic argument:

• First,, the I Ching views the world as a system whole composed of fundamental elements.system wholeThis generative, dynamic, and intuitive systemic view is reflected at two levels: the line as an element of the hexagram, and the hexagram as an element within the larger system.
• Second,, the I Ching sees the world as a multi-level system whole determined by fundamental dialectical relationships.multi-level system whole. This generative logic bears mechanistic traces, namely using the 'binary' form ofYin-Yangas the sole fundamental form:‘Thus, in Yi there is Taiji; from Taiji arise the Two Instruments; from the Two Instruments come the Four Images; from the Four Images emerge the Eight Trigrams.’
• Third,, the I Ching views the world as adynamically cyclic-evolving system whole. The six lines are arranged sequentially from the initial line to the top line, representing the process of an entity from beginning to end; when it reaches the top line, the process concludes, and then it returns to the initial line, repeating endlessly.