Huangji Yi Shuo Guide

Author: Ding Yuanming
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Easy to Learn
As an important part of Confucian studies, the interpretation of the I Ching is a form of annotation in ancient China, which can be termed hermeneutics (or exegesis) in modern Western terminology. It is called hermeneutics because the study of the I Ching primarily uses methods such as transmission annotations, explanations, annotations, resolving doubts, and textual research to understand and interpret the text of the I Ching, exploring the thoughts or principles that the author of the I Ching was consciously or unconsciously aware of. This annotation not only focuses on the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in the I Ching, i.e., transforming the language and meaning of the I Ching through etymology, but also, on this basis, creatively reinterprets the text of the I Ching based on the interpreter's knowledge and experience, expanding and elevating its meaning to better understand the author's thoughts.
What distinguishes the I Ching from other ancient classics is that it not only contains archaic and obscure textual language used for divination but also a highly rigorous and highly abstract symbolic system closely related to this text. This is the key to why the I Ching has become an infinite source and eternal matrix for later interpreters to understand and interpret.