Yi Jing: Book of Change

Yi: here meaning "change" (and "easy")

Confucius studied it 50 years and wore out three copies (7.16)?

Confucius wrote the Ten Wings?

Fu Xi invented 8 trigrams; King Wen, hexagrams; Duke of Zhou, tests 1 & 2?

Actually composed 6th-3rd BCE.

 

Daoist vs. Confucian

Daoists focused on numerology.

10 Wing commentaries canonized by politically powerful Confucian scholars.

Confucian version popularized by R. Wilhelm and C. G. Jung.

The Huangs: original and its poetry.

Even here Confucian values: natural order, self-cultivation, and social justice.

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