Here is the translation of the given content: "" (Yìjīng Rùmén) translates to: "Introduction to the I Ching"

Author: Chang Bingyi
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The I Ching originated as a symbolic system and evolved into a textual system. The symbolic system was a product of pre-literate times. The I Ching·Appendix to the Changes states: "The River produced the Map, the Luo produced the Book, the sages took them as models." "In ancient times, Pao Xi, who ruled the world, looked up at the sky to observe phenomena and looked down at the earth to study its laws. He observed the patterns of birds and beasts and the suitability of the land, drawing close reference from the body and distant reference from objects. Thus, he created the Eight Trigrams, to communicate the virtue of deities and to classify the affections of all things." This means that as early as the hunting and gathering era six or seven thousand years ago, the human cultural ancestor of the Chinese nation, Pao Xi, through a series of practices of observing the sky and the earth, created the symbolic system of the Eight Trigrams and the Sixty-Four Hexagrams. This book interprets the I Ching based on Shang Shi’s Studies on the I Ching. I follow Shang Shi in using the I Ching images as the framework and the Yin-Yang theory as the essence to interpret the I Ching, striving to restore the original form of the Great I Ching. Such a timeless classic deserves a position. The mindset of the I Ching represented by figures like Fu Xi, Wen Wang, Confucius, Jiao Yanshou, Yang Xiong, Chen Tuan, Shao Yong, and Shang Binghe is almost a continuous lineage. This mindset and its works constitute the essence of traditional Chinese culture. Based on this, I compiled An Introduction to the I Ching to restore the pure and natural spirit of the I Ching.