This publication is based on the text of the gigantic compendium “Zhou Yi Zhe Zhong” (“Analysis of the Internal Content of the Zhou Changes”), compiled at the beginning of the 17th century by the great Chinese scientist Li Guangdi. His book includes interpretations from a huge number of works of all eras and times, in which Chinese scientists turned to the analysis of the text of the “Book of Changes,” which lies at the very basis of the civilizational paradigm of the Chinese mind. For thousands of years, the “Book of Changes” was a manual on the art of thinking, on which millions of Chinese thinkers and activists who took part in governing the empire honed their minds. For during this entire period it was considered impossible to occupy any public office without knowledge of the Book of Changes. This work is the fruit of more than thirty years of research and research, the purpose of which was to convey to the Russian-speaking reader the full depth of the substantive approaches available in this book. Until now, not a single such complete and in-depth study of the “Book of Changes” has been published in Russian.