Yijing (text)

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Title page of the Yijing, Song dynasty edition (c. 1100).

Yijing [alt. I Ching] (易經; "Book of Changes"), also known as Zhou yi (周易; "Classic of Changes"). One of the five classic texts (wu jing 五經) of ancient China that are included in the Confucian canon.

This text describes the physical and metaphysical phenomena of existence as set of permutations of the two primal forces of yin 陰 and yang 陽, which are seen in their unfoldment of the eight trigrams 卦 and sixty-four hexagrams 六十四卦. The tradition maintains that the trigrams and hexagrams were devised by the legendary Fuxi 伏羲, that King Wen 文王 and the Duke of Zhou 周公 attached the commentaries while Confucius wrote the “Ten Wings” 十翼 portion of the text, but these attributions are unverifiable. The Zhouyi has been popular in East Asian for thousands of years as a guide to divination. [Charles Muller]

External links

• I Ching, Wikipedia