筮人"掌三易"及《周易》在先秦的传播

周代占筮《连山》、《归藏》、《周易》三易并用,但太卜、筮人、筮史之外的周人似更喜筮用《周易》．与此同时,周人大量语用《周易》,显示了《周易》在社会上超出卜筮职能范围的广泛传播、接受与应用．其传播方式除口耳相传外,已经出现书面传播,并伴有阐释文本,即《易》传,可见《易》学乃至《易》教的兴起．《周易》能够成为“六经”之一并传世至今,正与此有着直接的关系．

The three kinds of Yi and the transmission of Zhouyi in the pre-Qin period

In the Zhou dynasty,official diviners simultaneously took use of the three Yi,i.e.Lian shan,Gui cang,and Zhouyi.Except official diviners,Zhou people seemed to like to use Zhouyi more in divination. Meanwhile,the multitudinous quotations of the statements of Zhouyi by the Zhou people expose a wide-spread transmission,reception and application of Zhouyi,beyond its divinatory function. Besides of oral transmis- sions,the literal transmission of Zhouyi had appeared,accompanied with interpretative text,i.e.Yi Zhuan (Commentaries on Yi),which demonstrate the rising of the Yi studies and even the rising of the education by Yi at that time.This sowed the seed for Zhouyi to become one of the Six Confucian Classical Canons and to be transmitted to this day