1700年11月,白晋给莱布尼茨写信,称赞《易经》是中国一切科学和哲学的源头,它高于当时欧洲的科学和哲学。白晋把中国的起源放到18世纪之前三四千年的时代,将伏羲称作第一个立法者。他认为,四千多年前中国古人的知识和西方圣贤的知识之间,有着很多一致。白晋(1656~1730),又作白进,西名布韦(Bouvet),法国人。作为清初来华的耶稣会士,他是 In November 1700, Bai Jin wrote to Leibniz praising that the Book of Changes is the source of all science and philosophy in China, which is higher than the science and philosophy of Europe at the time. Bai Jin put China’s origins in the era of three or four thousand years before the eighteenth century, calling Fu Xi the first legislator. In his opinion, there is much agreement between the knowledge of the ancient Chinese people and the knowledge of the Western saints four thousand years ago. White Jin (1656 ~ 1730), another for white, the West name Bouvet, French. He was the Jesuits coming to China in early Qing Dynasty