本文作者認為易經思想透過六爻變化來解釋某事發生變化之歷程，與西周民族在歷史上經歷過關鍵性的遷徙活動有密切相關。因此，嘗試從歷史上的遷徙活動對照相關的卦爻辭，來理解易經思想如何把某歷史事件的特徵，普遍化成為一種脩德的規範。本文分以下四小節：一、前言：臆測易經思想緣起的外在因素，主要根據《史記．周本紀》以及許倬雲《西周史》進行探究；二、易經思想的發展過程，主要根據方東美先生《中國哲學之精神及其發展》進行探究的依據；三、從周族人的遷徙活動來看映照在卦爻辭上的表現：以升卦為例，主要根據升卦卦爻辭和《彖傳》、《大象傳》、《小象傳》進行探究；四、易經思想的人文價值。參考現代學者研究並加以綜合探究。

Explaining the changes of all things through the transformations of the six lines is closely related with the crucial migrations in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the writer believes. Therefore, the writer compares the events of migration with the related descriptions of the hexagrams and lines to understand how Yi Jing (The Book of Changes) generalizes the attributes of historical events into the norms of virtue cultivation. This article is divided into four sections: the foreword, a speculation on the circumstantial factors of the philosophy of Yi Jing, based on Annals of Zhou, Historical Records and The History of the Western Zhou Dynasty by Cho-Yun Hsu; an inquiry on how the philosophy of Yi Jing developed based on Chinese Philosophy: Its Spirit and Its Development by Thome H. Fang; the migrations during the Zhou Dynasty in comparison with the descriptions of the hexagrams and lines; and the humanitarian values of the philosophy of Yi Jing.