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What Is the Yijing?
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The first chapter identifies the general nature, structure, and function of the Yijing. It explains the difference between its two names in Chinese, Zhouyi and Yijing, and summarizes the process by which the Zhouyi was “Confucianized,” thereby becoming the Yijing. Its earliest form, the sixty-four hexagrams (six-line diagrams), was attributed to the mythic sage Fuxi, China’s original “culture-hero.” Its earliest textual level (short statements accompanying each hexagram) was attributed to the first king of the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BCE), King Wen. The chapter concludes by outlining the major philosophical and cosmological concepts embodied in the text (e.g. dao, qi, yin-yang) and the graphic figures (trigrams and hexagrams) that constitute its core.
Title: What Is the Yijing?
Description:
The first chapter identifies the general nature, structure, and function of the Yijing.
It explains the difference between its two names in Chinese, Zhouyi and Yijing, and summarizes the process by which the Zhouyi was “Confucianized,” thereby becoming the Yijing.
Its earliest form, the sixty-four hexagrams (six-line diagrams), was attributed to the mythic sage Fuxi, China’s original “culture-hero.
” Its earliest textual level (short statements accompanying each hexagram) was attributed to the first king of the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BCE), King Wen.
The chapter concludes by outlining the major philosophical and cosmological concepts embodied in the text (e.
g.
dao, qi, yin-yang) and the graphic figures (trigrams and hexagrams) that constitute its core.
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