I Ching / READING COLLECTIONS
I Ching: 5 readings
Five complete original readings distinguish the classic, Wings, older annotation, subcommentary and modern scholarship, then separate Qian's symbols and positions, whole-hexagram statements and situated lines, the bounded Great Expansion passage, and the different inputs and methods of the I Ching and Four Pillars. Selected passages use the National Archives of Japan B046-0003 manuscript identified through catalogue fields imported by Commons. Muromachi is a catalogued era, not an independently inspected copy date or authenticated holograph. These checks do not imply downloading all thirteen volumes, complete transcription or full collation. Modern scholarship is an attributed analytical perspective; library and scholarly sources do not validate real-life prediction.
Collection One: text layers, symbols and divination
Separate the classic, Wings, annotation and subcommentary, then read Qian line positions and situated statements, the limits of the Great Expansion passage, and differences between the I Ching and Four Pillars.
- READING 01
Why the I Ching needs separate text and commentary layers
Follow a hexagram statement through the Wings, annotation and subcommentary, keeping the manuscript witness and scholarly interpretation distinct.
- READING 02
How hexagram lines acquire names and positions
Read a six-line figure from below, distinguish position from line designation, and avoid turning hexagram labels into stems, ages or binary history.
- READING 03
Why hexagram and line statements must retain their situations
Compare a whole-hexagram statement with selected Qian line statements, preserving restrictions and interpretive layers rather than a fixed success ladder.
- READING 04
How to introduce Great Expansion divination as a cultural method
Keep the received numerical and procedural wording, later reconstruction, ritual interpretation and empirical prediction as separately supported claims.
- READING 05
Do shared terms make the I Ching and Four Pillars the same method?
Compare a Xici yin-yang passage with an actual four-pillar definition, separating vocabulary, operations, textual descent and demonstrated results.