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Confucianism Taoism Prophecy
and Divination
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I
Ching
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The I Ching
James
Legge, tr.
Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16
[1899]
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Reading
The
I Ching, or Book of Changes, is the most widely read of the five Chinese Classics. The book was
traditionally written by the legendary Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi
(2953-2838 B.C.). It is possible that the the I Ching originated from a
prehistoric divination technique which dates back as far as 5000 B.C.
Thus it may be the oldest text at this site. Futher commentaries were
added by King Wen and the Duke of Chou in the eleventh century B.C.
An
I Ching interpretation is performed by making six binary decisions (a
hexagram). This is called 'casting the I Ching'. These are written down
as a stack of six solid or broken lines. This was traditionally done
either by tossing yarrow stalks or coins, although there is no reason
why the hexagrams can't be generated by some other means (such as a
computer program).
There
are actually four possible values for each of the lines; the
two on/off values, and a line which changes from on to off or vice
versa. Thus one cast of the I Ching can generate two different
hexagrams, which adds depth to the interpretation. The sophistication
of this method has not escaped modern interpretation, and the
four-valued logic has been compared to the biochemistry of DNA amino acids. How a Neolithic shamans'
divination technique presaged the basic logic of the human genome is
one of the ageless mysteries.
Production
Notes: This is a complete overhaul of the Legge I
Ching etext, with all of the original illustrations. This utilizes Unicode characters throughout to represent
the 'short A' and the 'Yodh' found in the original book. Because not
all browsers support the official Unicode 'Yodh' (Ȝ and ȝ), we have used Ž and
ž to represent it. In addition, we have used images to present the
dozen or so Chinese characters in this text.
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: The Yî King
from The Twelfth Century B.C. to the Commencement of the Christian Era
Chapter II: The
Subject-Matter of the Text. The Lineal Figures and the Explanation of
Them
Chapter III: The
Appendixes
Plates
Plate I
Plate II, Figure 1
Plate II, Figure 2
Plate III, Figure 1
Plate III, Figure 2
The
Yî King Text: Section I
I. The Khien Hexagram
II. The Khwăn Hexagram
III. The Kun
Hexagram
IV. The Măng Hexagram
V. The Hsü Hexagram
VI. The Sung Hexagram
VII. The Sze Hexagram
VIII. The Pî Hexagram
IX. The Hsiâo Khû
Hexagram
X. The Lî Hexagram
XI. The Thâi Hexagram
XII. The Phî Hexagram
XIII. The Thung Zăn
XIV. The Tâ Yû Hexagram
XV. The Khien
Hexagram
XVI. The Yü Hexagram
XVII. The Sui Hexagram
XVIII. The Kû Hexagram
XIX. The Lin Hexagram
XX. The Kwân Hexagram
XXI. The Shih Ho
Hexagram
XXII. The Pî Hexagram
XXIII. The Po Hexagram
XXIV. The Fû Hexagram
XXV: The Wû Wang
Hexagram
XXVI. The Tâ Khû
Hexagram
XXVII. The Î Hexagram
XXVIII. The Tâ Kwo
Hexagram
XXIX. The Khan Hexagram
XXX. The Lî Hexagram
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Section II
XXXI. The Hsien Hexagram
XXXII. The Hăng
Hexagram
XXXIII. The Thun
Hexagram
XXXIV. The Tâ Kwang
Hexagram
XXXV. The Žin Hexagram
XXXVI. The Ming Î
Hexagram
XXXVII. The Kiâ
Zăn Hexagram
XXXVIII. The Khwei
Hexagram
XXXIX. The Kien
Hexagram
XL. The Kieh
Hexagram
XLI. The Sun Hexagram
XLII. The Yî Hexagram
XLIII. The Kwâi
Hexagram
XLIV. The Kâu Hexagram
XLV. The Žhui Hexagram
XLVI. The Shăng
Hexagram
XLVII. The Khwăn
Hexagram
XLVIII. The Žing
Hexagram
XLIX. The Ko Hexagram
L. The Ting Hexagram
LI. The Kăn
Hexagram
LII. The Kăn Hexagram
LIII. The Kien
Hexagram
LIV. The Kwei Mei
Hexagram
LV. The Făng Hexagram
LVI. The Lü Hexagram
LVII. The Sun Hexagram
LVIII. The Tui Hexagram
LIX. The Hwân Hexagram
LX. The Kieh
Hexagram
LXI. The Kung
Fû Hexagram
LXII. The Hsiâo Kwo
Hexagram
LXIII. The Kî
Žî Hexagram
LXIV. The Wei Žî
Hexagram
The
Appendixes
Appendix
I
Section I
Section II
Appendix
II
Section I
Section II
Appendix
III: The Great Appendix
Section I
Section II
Appendix
IV
Section
I
Section I: Khien
Section II: Khwăn
Appendix
V
Appendix V: Treatise of
Remarks on the Trigrams
Appendix
VI
Appendix VI: The Orderly
Sequence of the Hexagrams
Appendix
VII
Appendix VII
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