Yijing
Read the Zhouyi through its core text, commentaries, hexagrams and lines. Explore interpretations while distinguishing Meihua and Liu Yao methods.
Texts and editions ↗
Distinguish names, textual layers and editions.
Choosing a Yijing Edition: Received Texts and Excavated Manuscripts
The Zhou Yi comes as received editions, annotated editions, excavated manuscripts and translations. Several comparisons sort the sources, show variant readings and give three questions for recording an edition.
YJ-002 / YijingCore Text and Commentaries: Telling the Zhou Yi from What Explains It
On one page of hexagram Qian, tell the core text (figure, Judgment, line statements) from the commentaries (the Ten Wings). Label each sentence, then sum up each Wing in a line.
YJ-001 / YijingYijing and Zhou Yi: Sorting the Names and Their Scope
A comparison table separates Yi, Zhou Yi, Yijing, Yi Zhuan and Yi studies by how much each covers, then checks how the Rites of Zhou, the Zuo Zhuan, the Book of Han and the Book of Sui use the names.
Trigrams, hexagrams and lines ↗
From line forms to paired trigrams, using the existing hexagram reference.
The Sixty-Four Hexagrams: How Upper and Lower Trigrams Form One Figure
The sixty-four hexagrams are an 8 × 8 set of combinations, one trigram stacked on another. A lookup table, a Zhun, Jie and Meng comparison and two exercises show how to count lines, split them and find the name.
YJ-004 / YijingYin and Yang Lines: Two Strokes, Six Places, Read from the Bottom
A yang line is unbroken and a yin line is broken in the middle. Six lines stack from the bottom into one hexagram, giving 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 64 patterns. Jiji and Weiji show why order matters.
YJ-005 / YijingEight Trigrams: Three-Line Structure and Basic Images, Read Through the Shuo Gua
The eight trigrams are the small figures built from three lines. An eight-row table, a 1-3-3-1 grouping and Shuo Gua chapter 7 separate structure, names, natures and images, and show which chapter each entry comes from.
Reading the text ↗
Read statements, positions and commentaries as distinct layers.
Line positions: the six places, Nine and Six, and the sayings about them
Six places run from Initial to Top; a yang line is Nine, a yin line Six. Build line names on Qian and Xu, then put "two is praised" and the later terms central place and correspondence in their own layers.
YJ-007 / YijingJudgment and Line Statements: Whole Hexagram or Single Line?
Using hexagram Tai, separate the one Judgment that speaks to the whole figure from the six line statements that speak to single lines, then set the later commentaries in their own layer.
YJ-009 / YijingReading the Ten Wings
On hexagram Fu, see what each of the Ten Wings asks: the Commentary on the Judgments explains, the Great Commentary (Xi Ci) discusses, three texts are lookup tools. Tradition and modern debate stay apart.
Interpretations and method boundaries ↗
Compare Qian–Kun, interpretive approaches and divination methods.
Yijing, Meihua and Liu Yao: Shared Hexagrams, Different Methods
One example, Tai with line five moving, read three ways: the Zhou Yi text by position, Meihua by Body and Use, Liu Yao by Self, Other and Six Relatives. Same figure, different start, steps and unit read.
YJ-011 / YijingImages, Numbers and Meaning: Two Ways of Reading the Zhou Yi, and Where They Cross
Readers of the Zhou Yi ask about structure or about principle. A Commentary on the Images sentence on Jing, two passages by Kong Yingda and Wang Bi's "Ming Xiang" show the two directions crossing, not competing.
YJ-010 / YijingReading Qian and Kun Together: From the Core Text to Different Explanations
Set the core text of Qian (乾) and Kun (坤) side by side, then the three commentaries, and only then later explanations. Two places, Initial and Top, show how each layer words the same line. No personality labels.