Yijing, Chinese Divination and Philosophy, Human Behaviour

Traditionally there were two main stages in the development of the Zhouyi, the invention of the gua 卦 “trigrams” and “hexagrams” as xiang 象 “symbols,” and then the appending of ci 辭 “statements” or “words” to the hexagrams and lines. The former is the subject of this paper, while the latter will be taken up in the next paper.

The previous paper discussed the first stage in the traditional development of the Zhouyi, the invention of the xiang 象 “symbols” known as trigrams and hexagrams, and this paper will look at the second stage, the appending of ci 辭 “statements” to the hexagrams and lines.

This paper will attempt to show what correspondences may exist between the sequence of the received order of the hexagrams and the sequences of the two arrangements of hexagrams developed in the previous paper on the xiang 象 "symbols" of the Yijing.

At the bottom link you can find excerpts from this great 1715 manuscript:

李光地. 御纂周易折中 :二十二卷, 卷首. [北京] : 武英殿, 清康熙54年 [1715]

Excerpts are focused on the so-called ‘received text’ of Yi Jing / Zhou Yi.

For the ease of the work, I’ve divided hexagrams’ text in 8 by 8 chapters.

Each hexagram picture is linked to the referred page in the great Harvard Library manuscript database.

Have a good read.