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I would never tell a beginner to try to memorize the names. Focus on the meanings. That will keep you busy for years. Meaning is the important part.
Let's say you pick a single author and memorize the names that author decided on. Then you try to use Yi and find that you don't understand at all because the author you picked chose a bad name for the hexagram. (There are several names which are applicable/true to any hexagram.)
But, have fun with your interaction.
The book is much deeper than you understand.
This is of course complete ignorance.A few of my masters in China told me that foreigners who don't understand Chinese culture will never be able to be good at I Ching and other Chinese culture subjects as they don't get the "soul" of the subject(s), just like they try to copy the motions of those Tai Chi masters who are performing at the park but never get to learn the breathing techniques, the movement of the tongue, Qi etc. because they only see the external appearance of the Tai Chi master's movement instead of the internal process of it.
Go ahead and memorize the names if you like. No one is trying to stop you, but it is kind of funny to watch you claim oversight of the subject matter.The analogy of memorising the hexagram names in my humble opinion is like learning a language such as English that we are using now, if we don't memorise the 26 alphabets and some of the grammars, how are we going to be able to understand the meaning of the words constructed from the alphabets so that we can communicate well with other people? I Ching only has 8 characters(Trigrams) and 64 words(Hexagrams), so how hard can it be compared to mastering a language such as 1000-2000 words in English for basic daily communication?
Again, you are claiming something that you do not know.I Ching易经 is not a difficult book to understand at all
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