Fascimile on line of sung dynasty edition of introduction to the study of yi

[owlgofree]

Dear everyone:

I am creating a website where I scan a full fascimile of a Sung dynasty publication, an introductory to the study of Yi, by a certain Hou Fan Pin. I think he is somewhat after Chu Xsi. The printing is archaic, so there is no punctuation and many misprints, it seems. Anyone interested in taking a look please come to:

http://www.geocities.com/theologontos

Lawrence Chin

[arien]

Great work! thanks for sharing this

Incidentally, these pages (what I can decypher at least), concurr to the associations of bigrams (the whole section on construction of the hexagrams seems interesting) that I find most sensible, among the various alternatives that different authors propose (there has been some discussion over this, I think in LiSe's square games)

If we imagine lines raising from below, yang pressing up, it makes sense (lowerline-upperline in the following):

yang-yang, here the yang below presses the yang above, which cant endure, so this is excessive yang, or a 9

yin-yang, the lower yin cannot brake the upper yang, so it remains yang, a stable yang, or a 7

yang-yin, the upper yin is already broken, so this is also a stable configuration, an 8

yin-yin here there is need for a different analogy, but when yin ceases yang starts. Anyway, this is a 6

Also, anyone knows what's the story with all those dots in the midst of the text in the last section? What does that represent?