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Book of Changes or I Ching (ē jĭng, ē chĭng), ancient Chinese book of prophecy and wisdom. The oldest parts of its text are thought to have attained their present form in the century before Confucius. Its images and concepts were taken partly from oracles and partly from the mythology, history, and poetry of earlier ages. The I Ching consists of eight trigrams, corresponding to the powers of nature, which according to legend were copied by an emperor from the back of a river creature. The trigrams are used to interpret the future with the textual help of supplementary definitions, intuitions, and Confucian commentary. The work is one of the Five Classics (see Chinese literature Chinese literature, the literature of ancient and modern China.
Early Writing and LiteratureIt is not known when the current system of writing Chinese first developed. The oldest written records date from about 1400 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. ). The best-known English edition is that by Cary F. Baynes (3d ed. 1970); it is a translation of the German version by Richard Wilhelm. BibliographySee studies by H. Wilhelm (1976) and I. Shchutskii (1979). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This emphasis on embryo is also related to the Han cosmology, and Kinney contends that the Chinese word embryo was corresponding to the word ji in the "Great Appendix" of the Book of Changes (Yi jing). Richard Wilhelm, who introduced Chinese philosophy to the West with his German translation of the I Ching, or Book of Changes. I Ching The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth |
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