Reading the text
Read statements, positions and commentaries as distinct layers.
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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.
Read first: Yin and Yang Lines: Two Strokes, Six Places, Read from the Bottom
YJ-007Judgment 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.
Read first: Core Text and Commentaries: Telling the Zhou Yi from What Explains It · The Sixty-Four Hexagrams: How Upper and Lower Trigrams Form One Figure
YJ-009Reading 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.
Read first: Core Text and Commentaries: Telling the Zhou Yi from What Explains It