The Mawangdwui sequence of the I ching.

[joezoe]

Another sequence of the I ching,Was uncovered in a tomb along with other texts written on silk.They call it Mawangdwui
Their is an explanation of it on another page linked to this one,but the actual sequence is laid out about half way down this page.
Check it out.http://www.biroco.com/yijing/sequence.htm#mwd

 

[Sparhawk]

Mawangdui is the name of the place where the tomb with the manuscript was found. The tomb complex belonged to the Marquis of Dai and his family and who died about 186 B.C., in the Han Dynasty.

 

[fkegan]

In the page in your link there are 3 interesting tidbits. First, it is given a date of 168 BCE well after Confucius. Second, it is noted that the octets of hexagrams likely has no great mathematical or symbolic significance and is could well be just a finding order. Third, the entire 'sequence' is given in terms of the 8 hexagrams composed of each of the trigrams doubled and then the other seven hexagrams of the octet in basically the same order of the lower trigrams.

Once the Yi became established as one of the Confucian Classics to be studied for the required civil service exam to become an Imperial bureaucrat it was useful to have a way to learn the patterns of the 64 hexagrams. The Wilhelm includes an appendix of like this called the 8 houses of the Yi. It makes far more sense as the Cliff notes for the civil service exam than as an alternative sequence to the King Wen. Especially as it breaks study of the 64 hexagrams into 8 study sets based upon trigrams thus focusing one's efforts upon the simpler trigram patterns and meanings--taking one trigram as the upper lines of all the hexagrams in its set.

Frank