I Ching is a well-known ancient Chinese philosophical work and is also an only
philosophical work in the world which studies how things operate, change and
develop with symbols as its tenet. Based on the dualism of yin and yang, it classifies
the properties of Heaven and Earth and all created things by virtue of images.
And it divides all the laws existing in nature into sixty-four parts. Fuhsi summed
up the theories of the Eight Trigrams by observing the phenomena of astronomy,
geography and human affairs. Likewise, based on the Eight Trigrams, King Wen
continued to make each trigram overlap with the other (including with itself)
and advance the theories of the Sixty-four Hexagrams by observing the phenomena
of astronomy, geography and human affairs. Later, Chou Kung (Duke of
Chou) continued to replenish and refine the book and Confucius and many other
scholars continued to improve and polish it as a complete philosophical work.
Besides, Yen Emperor’s Lien Shan and Yellow Emperor’s Kuei Ts’ang failed to be
passed on to the subsequent generations.
Components of the Book:
- Head Page
- Copyright Page
- Author's Preface
- Contents
- I Ching Vol. 1
- I Ching Vol. 2
- I Ching Vol. 3
- I Ching Vol. 4
- I Ching Vol. 5
- I Ching Vol. 6
- I Ching Vol. 7
- I Ching Vol. 8
- I Ching Vol. 9
- I Ching Vol. 10
- I Ching Vol. 11
- I Ching Vol. 12
- I Ching Vol. 13
Readership:
Readers who are interested in the studies of ancient Chinese culture and philosophy will find this book useful.
Zhongyuan Cai
Zhongyuan Cai, English Teacher and Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in Nanjing, China. English Editor of the magazine Southeast Culture in Nanjing Museum, one of the top-ten magazines of Social and Human Sciences in Jiangsu Province, China.