其中预言、梦境、灾异、卜筮等都是伏笔艺术的重要表现形式。

It's one of the important forms of foreshadowing for prediction, dreamland, natural calamities, augury, etc.

《周易》本为卜筮之书，经历代儒生的改造，逐渐演变为哲理之书。

Being a book of divination originally, Zhou Yi was developed into a philosophical book by the intellectuals of the following generations.

《周易》以其“卜筮其表，哲理其里”的特殊性质，一开始就具有了教化的功用。

With its special properties "divination outside while philosophy inside", Zhouyi has the function of enlightening by education at the very beginning.

《周易》原为卜筮之书，以知来藏往、本隐之显来预测吉凶、趋利避害，包含着深刻的人生智慧。

Conceiving profound wisdom of life, Zhouyi was originally a book for divination which can enable one to know the past and predict the events to come to obtain fortune and avoid misfortune.