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Yijing
The Chinese Classic of Changes, consulted by hexagrams. It is older and wider than Daoism; Wilhelm’s English made it a Western divinatory book.
Also known as I Ching · Book of Changes
Daoism
Yijing is used in Divination.
Consulting the Changes is a divinatory use of a classic. It is not Delphi and not Ifá.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Yijing is associated with Transformation.
The book’s name is Change. The change is a Chinese classic’s subject, not Ovid’s bodies and not alchemical cookery.
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Yijing appears in Daoism.
Later readers filed the Yijing with Daoist books. The classic is older and wider; the pointer stays historically uncertain on purpose.
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Yijing is associated with Cycle.
Hexagrams are read as situations that can turn. The turning is the book’s own grammar of change.
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Book is connected to Yijing.
The Yijing is a classic that can be opened and consulted. Wilhelm’s volume is one Western binding of that classic.
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Lots is used in Yijing.
The Yijing is consulted by a cast that produces a hexagram. Wilhelm taught a Western public that method; the classic is Chinese.
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Chinese tradition
Eight is used in Yijing.
The eight trigrams are the Yijing’s elementary figures. Wilhelm’s English made them a Western divinatory furniture; the classic is older and wider than that.
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Five is connected to Yijing.
Correlative fives and the Change classic share a Chinese world of schemes. They are neighboring tools, not one diagram.
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Yarrow stalks is used in Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing teaches consultation by counting and dividing milfoil / yarrow stalks to form a hexagram. Named stalk apparatus used in that classic’s method, not the yarrow plant alone and not coin-oracle as a second procedure.
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Yarrow is used in Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing yarrow method uses milfoil / yarrow as the plant material of the stalk cast. Named plant material used in that consultation, not yarrow-stalks as the counted apparatus alone and not a herbal-pharmacy dump.
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Fuxi is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing materials transmit Fuxi as the culture-hero traditionally linked to the trigrams’ first drawing. A historical-traditional link in that reception, not identity of Fuxi with the book and not King Wen as an unpublished id.
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Confucius is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing transmits the Ten Wings in a Confucian commentary neighborhood traditionally linked to Confucius. A historical-traditional link in that reception, not authorship proof and not confucianism tradition id as the same edge.
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Turtle is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing materials note older tortoise-oracle consultation as a historical neighbor of the Changes’ stalk method. A historical-method link, not oracle-bone as the object dump and not turtle as a hexagram animal flatten alone.
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Yijing coins is used in Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing apparatus notes the three-coin method as a consultation procedure for building hexagrams beside the classical yarrow-stalk count. Named coin set used in that Changes practice, not yarrow-stalks and not cash-coin as currency alone.
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Oracle bone is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing materials place Shang bone-and-shell oracle consultation as a historical neighbor of the Changes’ stalk method. A historical-method link, not identity of oracle-bone with the received Yijing and not turtle alone as the same edge.
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Turtle plastron is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing materials note older plastromancy on prepared plastron shells as a historical neighbor of the Changes’ stalk consultation. A historical-method link, not oracle-bone as the broader Shang category alone and not turtle as the animal historically_related_to row.
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Scapula bone is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing Shang-oracle neighborhood includes scapulimancy on prepared shoulder-blades beside plastron cracking as older consultation kin of the Changes. A historical-method link, not oracle-bone as the umbrella alone and not throwing-bones as a generic dump.
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Confucianism is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing transmits the Ten Wings in a Ru / Confucian commentary neighborhood traditionally linked to the school under Confucius’s name. A historical-traditional link of the tradition to the Changes, not confucius personally as the same edge and not authorship proof.
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Yin-Yang school is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing correlative cosmology sits beside the Yinyangjia lineage of yin-yang and five-phase speech that historically neighbors the Changes. A historical-traditional link, not Daoism as Way-practice alone and not astrology as sky-technique dump.
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Cash coin is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing coin-oracle neighborhood uses Chinese cash coins (round with square hole) as the physical coin type of the three-coin cast. A historical-material link, not yijing-coins as the named cast set used_in and not currency history alone.
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Bamboo slip is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing is a mediation of a Chinese classic whose early textual life sat in bamboo-slip and related manuscript practice before later print. A historical-medium link, not paper alone and not a generic stick dump.
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Tally Mark is used in Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing yarrow procedure tallies remainders by groups while reducing forty-nine stalks to line values. Named tally marks used in that Changes consultation count, not cash-coin as currency and not suanpan as accounting gear.
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Writing brush is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing is a mediation of a Chinese classic whose judgments and images live in brush-written Chinese script tradition. A historical-medium link of the writing brush to the Changes’ textual life, not inkstick alone and not a full calligraphy dump.
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Inkstick is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing mediation sits in a Chinese ink-and-brush textual neighborhood of the Changes’ manuscript and print life. A historical-material link of the inkstick to that classic’s written transmission, not writing-brush alone and not Western inkhorn.
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Well bucket is historically related to Yijing.
Wilhelm’s Yijing seats the Well (Jing) among the sixty-four hexagrams, with bucket and rope speech in the image of drawing water. A historical-image link of the well-bucket to that hexagram’s apparatus world, not well as the published image row alone and not a full well-gear checklist.
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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.
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sources
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.