Mencius is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing sits in a Ru commentary world whose later Mengzi / Mencius memory neighbors the Changes as a classical curriculum text. A historical-traditional link of Mencius to the Yijing, not Confucius as identity and not authorship of the Wings.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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