周易》的占问与上古文学的问对体

问对体是一种古老的文体。其中占筮型作品与《周易》有着密切的关联。《周易》的功用为这类作品的产生提供了契机，在记录运用《周易》占筮的过程时产生了最初的占筮型问对体作品。因为占筮活动具有神圣性，所以它们都不约而同地采用了一同一答的结构模式。这类作品在深层意蕴方面的特点也与《周易》的功用及义理一脉相承。

Auguries in Zhou Yi and Question- and- Answer Type in Ancient Literature

Question-and-Answer literary type comes from ancient times. The augury has some close relationships with Zhou Yi. The practising function of Zhou Yi provides the possibilityof their appearance, and just in the course of recording the augury process the ancient people created first augury question- and- answer type works. The augury activities by that time had the sacred characteristcs so that they adopted such a question-and-answer structural pattern all the same, and in the depth of significance, their characteristics were in the same strain with the function and principles of Zhou Yi.