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Everybody who is a bit, realy only a little bit into literature, notices that the linking (from a line to a Hex) as many people here perform it, does not work concerning the text.
Could you clarify this part?
(I'm not sure what you mean here.)
Oh, dear, sorry. The forum has a problem displaying Chinese characters. I once contacted support, implemented their advice on how to fix this - and that promptly broke a lot of forum features, like post editing. It was all a bit of a disaster.[ Hilary, how can I make use of chinese characters an pinyin tone transliteration here?]
I'm interested in all three, and Yi probably 'grabbed me' most to start with because it's literature. Some unsolicited advice that you probably already know: to appreciate it as literature, you need to look at the whole book - the shapes and kinetic energy of the hexagrams, all the relationships created by their changes, and the Sequence in all its glory. It's all involved in creating meaning.My personal interest is less in the Yi as oracle book or its historical evolution pre-Han time but rather in the text as 'pure' literature....
Assuming that investigating the origins goes together with trying to unearth 'original' meanings... it's partly, as Fabio says, that a lot of information was just not available in 1950. (The inscription that gives the name of Prince Kang in Hexagram 35, for instance.) However, I think there was already some work in China concerning origins and early meanings that he either ignored or didn't know about. He was transmitting a venerable tradition, not reporting on the state of scholarship - he may well have felt he could do one or the other, but not both.I was wondering why Wilhelm, a highly educated man, especially in literature, seems to have never investigated the text´s origine or regional versions etc. ... may be he wrote about it and i missed it?
This is interesting, thank you! I have been trying to imagine what the connection/relationship might be. I read that the 'hexagram numerals' were accompanied often by the word 'yue', 'says', so they are translating the numerical quantities into qualities so they can 'speak' as an oracle. Though what they said is brief, and doesn't seem to bear much relation to what the same hexagram says in the Yi.> "an excavated pottery paddle which has Hex numbering 116111 on it":
we have to keep separate so called 'digit hexagrams' from Yijing ones. The formers, quite certainly, came from completly different divination systems and more, are truly represented by numbers, while Yi Hexagrams carry 'values', and the signs used to express them are not of the same species of formers
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