I Ching / COLLECTION 3
Collection Three: the Wings and translation choices
Distinguish classical statements from Tuan, Xiang, Wenyan and Xici, then compare nineteenth-century English and French translations and original title-page fields. Keep visible and inferred page numbers separate, and return through a 15-question reading-scope index.
Four complete original readings distinguish selected Tuan, Xiang, Wenyan and Xici passages, then compare the Qian judgement, older subcommentary, Legge’s 1882 English and Philastre’s 1885 French. Classical text, Wings, subcommentary and translators retain separate responsibilities. Legge scan86’s page57 is inferred from contents and a neighboring page; Philastre scan23 visibly shows13. The 15-question index records three collections’ reading scope, not complete collation of the Wings or all64hexagrams, full transcription or validated prediction.
- READING 01
How do the Tuan and Xiang explain a hexagram without becoming its classical statement?
Compare a classical judgement with its Tuan and Xiang responses, keeping their different objects and responsibilities.
- READING 02
How should the Wenyan language of junzi be placed in its historical setting?
Read the ethical vocabulary as a historically located interpretive layer, preserving its actions without ranking modern people.
- READING 03
How does the Xici discussion of yin and yang become a background of thought?
Compare finite change-language passages with the requirements of a computation, retaining the philosophical scope.
- READING 04
Why can translations of the same classical sentence choose different words?
Compare an actual base sentence, an old explanation and two legally readable translations with their original languages and editions.