There are few academic studies on Liu Xiang’s (77BC-6BC) thoughts of Zhou Yi. Although Liu Xiang does not have any monograph on Zhou Yi, we can see his thoughts of Zhou Yi in his works, such as memorials to the throne, Hongfan Wuxing Zhuanlun (Commentary of Hong Fan’s five elements), Lienvzhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Women), Xinxu (the New Prefaces), Shuoyuan (Garden of Stories) and so on. In his works of memorial to the throne, Liu Xiang cites Zhou Yi only to focus on the elucidation of philosophy and does not pay much attention to the thoughts on calamity and abnormal phenomena. In proofreading books at the Central Secretariat and the Palace Library, Liu Xiang read Hongfan (Great Plan) in Shangshu (The Book of History) and wrote Hongfan Wuxing Zhuanlun, influenced by which he began to pay attention to imagenumerology and thoughts of calamity and abnormal phenomena when citing Zhou Yi. In Lienvzhuan, Xinxu and Shuoyuan, Liu Xiang’s interpretation of Zhou Yi also manifests a combination of the interpretation of philosophy and magenumerology of calamity and abnormal phenomena. The motivation of Liu Xiang’s emphasis on imagenumber theory and the thoughts of calamity and abnormal phenomena is not derived from Zhou Yi itself, but related to his own ideological background of Qi Xue (a school of Confucian studies which relates the classics with calamity and abnormal phenomena).