Huang's Seven Schools of I Ching (Huang's School of I Ching, Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Hang Xinzhai, edited and annotated by the Zhouyi Studio
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features:
1. Hang Xinzhai (1968-1924), styled Shenxiu, was a native of Haining County, Zhejiang Province, in the late Qing and early Republican era, hence also known as the "Mr. Haining." During his youth, he ranked among the top in the imperial examinations. Later, he studied under Chen Shuyu and Li Chenke in the capital, served as a proofreader at the Wenyuan Pavilion, gaining access to rare texts, and attended Tongwen College, where he studied mathematics, physics, and natural sciences, achieving a comprehensive understanding of both Eastern and Western knowledge.
2. Hang Xinzhai once organized the "Academic Research Society for the Zhouyi," known as Yanji Xueshe, where he served as the main lecturer on the Zhouyi and wrote the six-volume "Yi Xie," a commentary on the Zhouyi. Additionally, he authored works such as "Initial Notes on Learning the Zhouyi," "Further Notes on Learning the Zhouyi," "Random Observations on Yi Numbers," "Miscellaneous Notes on Reading the Zhouyi," "Corrections to Shen Shi's Annotations on the Zhouyi," and "Shen Shi's Revised Method of Divining with Yarrow Sticks." These works collectively form the "Seven Works of Hang's Yi Studies," published by Yanji Xueshe in the eighth year of the Republic of China.
3. Hang Xinzhai made many insightful contributions to the study of the symbolic and numerical methods of the Zhouyi and their applications in natural sciences, which have provided significant inspiration and guidance for modern research in natural sciences. Therefore, the Zhouyi Studio, using the eighth-year Republic of China edition of Yanji Xueshe as the base, organized a team of Yi scholars to punctuate, proofread, and organize the "Seven Works of Hang's Yi Studies" to meet the needs of.
4. The base text used for this book is the eighth-year Republic of China edition of Yanji Xueshe.
5. The collation work includes punctuation, literary processing, and proofreading.
6. The Zhouyi Studio conducted a meticulous proofreading of the base text, correcting all obvious errors without leaving proofreading marks. Doubtful points are marked with small notes.
7. The punctuation in this book follows the current standardized punctuation rules, combining them with the general practices of punctuating ancient texts. However, em-dashes, ellipses, underscores, and proper noun marks are not used. No interword separators are used in the main text. In cases of parallel titles, commas are added for distinction.
8. Literary processing. Simplified Chinese characters are based on the "Regulations for the Use of Literature," "Table of Simplified Characters," and "List of Rectified Variant Characters" issued by the National Literary Work Committee, with reference to the "Cihai" and "Chinese Character Dictionary." Unresolved issues follow the general practices of ancient text collation. All text is simplified where possible. Ancient characters, non-standard characters, or obvious printing errors in the base text are uniformly replaced with standardized simplified characters. Obvious errors are corrected directly. Otherwise, the original text remains unchanged.
9. The renowned Yi scholar Wang Lijun provided the necessary base text for the Zhouyi Studio and guided the entire collation work. His contributions are hereby gratefully acknowledged.