The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change

by XI Zhu

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius, which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as well as divination. Over the centuries, hundreds of commentaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231216602
• ISBN13: 9780231216609
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"