I Ching
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The I Ching or Yijing, usually translated as the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was original
Title page of a Song dynasty (c. 1100) edition of the I Ching
Fifty yarrow (Achillea millefolium) stalks used for I Ching divination
The da xu ䷙ segment carved into stone among the Tang dynasty Kaicheng Stone Classics.
Wood block printed page of Zhou Yi Zhuan Yi Da Quan depicting the eight trigrams
Hexagram (I Ching)
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The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams. A hexagram in this context is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines, where each line is either Yang or Yin. The hexagram lines are traditionally
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…Wen of Zhou, the Duke of Zhou, and Confucius, but this traditional attribution is no longer generally accepted. The basic unit of the Zhou yi is the hexagram (卦 guà), a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo). Each line is either broken or unbroken. The received text of the Zhou yi contains…
The hexagrams of the I Ching in a diagram belonging to the German mathematician philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz