I Ching Divination Studies: The Shang School of I Ching

Author: Shang Binghe
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The ten-volume Ancient Divination of the I Ching and the twenty-volume Shang School of the I Ching are based on the annotated edition by Mr. Huang Shouqi and the Zhonghua Book Company edition, respectively. They incorporate other printed editions and particularly reference Mr. Zhang Shanwen's revised Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching for mutual collation, striving for completeness. For example, in Volume 7 of Ancient Divination of the I Ching, there are twenty-one cases from Xu Shifeng's Divination Not Reaching the Throne to Confucius Divining for the Five Sons of Shangqu, which were absent in the original publication. They have now been supplemented based on Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching, making it complete. Additionally, Explanations of the I Ching in the Zuo Zhuan and Guo Yu have been moved from Shang School of the I Ching to Ancient Divination of the I Ching, ensuring that ancient divination cases from the Spring and Autumn period to the Ming and Qing dynasties are seamlessly connected over two thousand years. The styles of The Transmission of the Elder of Zixi and Yu Shengyu's Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching – Shang School of the I Ching have been revised and appended to the back of the book, along with a poem by Shang Xiang titled Letters to Huang Zhiliu and an accompanying preface. Other improvements have also been made, though they are not elaborated upon here. The original book was in traditional vertical Chinese character layout, which has now been converted to a simplified horizontal layout. There were many missing characters in the original, all of which have been supplemented. For instance, in the Zuo Zhuan chronology, the original often omitted the character "" (gong) after the names of rulers like Zhao Gong, Xiang Gong, and Heng Gong, which has now been corrected for easier reference. Similarly, when Shang scholars listed the hexagrams Jiji and Weiji, they often abbreviated them as "Ji, Weiji," which has been fully restored. Other corrections have been made as well, but they are not detailed here.
The ten-volume Ancient Divination of the I Ching and the twenty-volume Shang School of the I Ching are based on the annotated edition by Mr. Huang Shouqi and the Zhonghua Book Company edition, respectively. They incorporate other printed editions and particularly reference Mr. Zhang Shanwen's revised Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching for mutual collation, striving for completeness. For example, in Volume 7 of Ancient Divination of the I Ching, there are twenty-one cases from Xu Shifeng's Divination Not Reaching the Throne to Confucius Divining for the Five Sons of Shangqu, which were absent in the original publication. They have now been supplemented based on Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching, making it complete. Additionally, Explanations of the I Ching in the Zuo Zhuan and Guo Yu have been moved from Shang School of the I Ching to Ancient Divination of the I Ching, ensuring that ancient divination cases from the Spring and Autumn period to the Ming and Qing dynasties are seamlessly connected over two thousand years. The styles of The Transmission of the Elder of Zixi and Yu Shengyu's Collected Works of the Shang School of the I Ching – Shang School of the I Ching have been revised and appended to the back of the book, along with a poem by Shang Xiang titled Letters to Huang Zhiliu and an accompanying preface. Other improvements have also been made, though they are not elaborated upon here. The original book was in traditional vertical Chinese character layout, which has now been converted to a simplified horizontal layout. There were many missing characters in the original, all of which have been supplemented. For instance, in the Zuo Zhuan chronology, the original often omitted the character "" (gong) after the names of rulers like Zhao Gong, Xiang Gong, and Heng Gong, which has now been corrected for easier reference. Similarly, when Shang scholars listed the hexagrams Jiji and Weiji, they often abbreviated them as "Ji, Weiji," which has been fully restored. Other corrections have been made as well, but they are not detailed here.