摘要：孔子晚年“读《易》，韦编三绝”，但是，孔子既没有像民间那样把《易经》看作是一部占卜之书，同时也没有像对待《诗》、《书》、《礼》、《乐》那样对它进行删定整理，以期从中发掘出进行社会教育的资源并找到根治社会疾病的良方。孔子之读《易》只是为了使自己的个人生活合乎“天命”从而提升个己的生命品质。可以说，孔子的“读《易》”只是他个人的一种宗教生活，体现了他对《易经》的宗教诉求；相反，孔子之删定整理《诗》、《书》、《礼》、《乐》则是他面对社会公众的学者生活，体现了他对《诗》、《书》、《礼》、《乐》的学术诉求，换言之即，孔子与《易经》之间的关系是一种宗教关系，而孔子与《诗》、《书》、《礼》、《乐》之间的关系却是一种学术关系，两者不可同日而语。
　　关键词：孔子；《易经》；“韦编三绝”；宗教诉求
　　中图分类号：b221
　　文献标识码：a文章编号：1003-3882（2007）01-0034-08
　　confucius’ religious concern to the yi jing in his old years
　　chen jian
　　(school of philosophy and sociology, shandong university, jinan 250100, china)
　　abstract:in spite of the fact that in his twilight years confucius“was fond of the yi and had read it so often that the thongs threading through the bamboo slips together broke three times”, neither did he regard the yi jing as a pure divination book as the commoners did, nor did he revise the yi jing as he revised the odes, the documents, the rituals, and the music, expecting to explore out, from the yi jing, the resources for social edification and an efficacious recipe to eradicate the social defects. confucius’ purpose of studying the yi jing was to make his personal life be in consistent to the“mandate of heaven” so as to enhance the quality of his life. we may say that, his reading of the yi only embodies his personal religious concern and represents his religious emotion to the yi jing. on the contrary, his revision of the odes, the documents, the rituals, and the music embodies his academic concern while he was facing the society and public, and represents his academic aspiration from these classics. in other words, the relationship between confucius and the yi jing is that of religion, whereas the relationship between confucius and other classics mentioned above is that of academy. they are two much different approaches.
　　key words:confucius; yi jing;the thongs broke three times; religious concern
　　引言
　　我妈妈年近花甲，是个虔诚的佛教徒。