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The I Ching or Yijing ( Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ⓘ ), usually translated 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 originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC).
Mar 23, 2019 · Who Wrote the I Ching? There are two main views regarding the authorship of the I Ching. According to the traditional Chinese view, the I Ching was written by the mythical sage king Fu Xi, who is believed to have lived during the first half of the 3 rd millennium BC.
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May 21, 2024 · Chinese: “Classic of Changes” or “Book of Changes” Wade-Giles romanization: I-Ching or Yi-Ching. Also called: Zhou Yi. Yijing, an ancient Chinese text, one of the Five Classics ( Wujing) of Confucianism.
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Feb 25, 2016 · In the West, the I Ching was discovered in the late seventeenth century by Jesuit missionaries in China, who decoded the text to reveal its Christian universal truth: hexagram number one was God; two was the second Adam, Jesus; three was the Trinity; eight was the members of Noah’s family; and so on. Leibniz enthusiastically found the ...
The Yi Jing is quite possibly the oldest book in the world. It happens to be a book of divination but one that has earned a central place in Asian culture. Confucius himself wrote commentaries about it and later Confucianists included it as one of the 13 works of the Confucian canon.
The I Ching was originally an oral tradition passed on from Fu Hsi, the legendary sage of antiquity who is estimated to have lived around 3300 BC. The earliest records of the eight trigrams were from the Lien Shan of the Hsia Dynasty (2205-1766 B.C.), and from the Kuei Ts’ang of the Shang Dynasty (1766-1150 B.C.)
The I Ching, often referred to as the Book of Changes, represents a pinnacle of ancient Chinese literature, esteemed not only as an oracle for divination but also as a cornerstone of Taoist philosophy.
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