I Ching Collected Interpretations (Simplified Horizontal Edition) (Upper and Lower) (Simplified Horizontal Edition)

Author: Li Dingzuo
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: "The Collected Interpretations of the I Ching," compiled by Li Dingzuo during the Tang Dynasty. The book may also be titled "Li's Collected Interpretations of the I Ching" or "Li's Commentary on the I Ching." It comprehensively gathers interpretations from forty schools of thought on the I Ching from the Han and Wei dynasties to the early Tang period, with a focus on adopting the theories of symbolic and mathematical studies to annotate the meanings of the canonical texts. Its purpose is to "correct the errors of Wang Bi's annotations and complete the missing images of Kang Cheng." The arrangement of the canonical texts follows Wang Bi's edition, with the "Transmission of the Order of Hexagrams" scattered among the headings of the sixty hexagrams, drawing inspiration from the example of the "Small Prefaces" being prefixed to the 305 chapters in the Book of Poetry.