This paper re-examines the term “yi-xiang”(易象, metaphors of the Changes)mentioned by Han Xuanzi in the Zuozhuan (左傳, Zuo's Commentary on the Chunqiu), arguing that Han was actually referring to the illustration of yin and yang reflected in the national rituals of Zhou dynasty conducted in the Lu. Actually the national rituals of the Zhou dynasty contains two different features: the “yin” part which mainly relates to feminine, plural numbers, nighttime and negative, while the “yang” part which mainly relates to masculine, odd numbers, daytime and positive. We can further trace back to the major difference between the ideologies of the Zhou dynasty which admires “yang” and the Yin dynasty which admires “yin”, justified by the philosophies of the Zhouyi and Guicang/Kunqian. Later on in the Chunqiu period following the decline of the Zhou regime and its ritual system, the political connotation of yin and yang diminished, the Zhouyi was then broadly used as a text for divination and fortune telling.