When the eighth month comes there will further misfortune."ĭr. Four broken lines over two solid lines can mean "Approach has supreme success. These days the interpretations are not so black and white. In the old days the solid lines meant yes and a broken lines meant no. Each hexagram has a description and symbolic meaning, which are revealed using interpretations written hundreds of years before the Book of Changes appeared. The 64 hexagrams are created by combining two groups of trigrams - each composed of eight trigrams, which in turn are each composed of combinations of three divided lines and undivided lines. Yijing divinations involve reading 64 hexagrams made of divided lines (yin) and undivided lines (yang) in accordance with sticks thrown by a fortuneteller. The translation of Yijing by Princeton University Press is 740 pages. Yijing is also regarded as a major treatise of the Chinese belief that philosophy and aesthetic theory is based on intuitive insight. It has been attributed to Confucius and is regarded as a Confucian text but in reality it predates Confucius and was incorporated into Confucianism when it became more mystical. The Yijing (I Ching or "Book of Changes") is a book of divination that first appeared during the Age of Philosophers.
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