Huang's Seven Schools of I Ching (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Hang Xinzhai
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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, during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, hence also known as Mr. Haining. In his youth, he ranked among the top candidates in the imperial examinations. Later, he studied under Mr. Chen Shuyu and Mr. Li Chenke in the capital, served as a proofreader in the Wenyuan Pavilion, gaining access to rare books, and attended Tongwen College, where he studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry, achieving a comprehensive understanding of both Eastern and Western knowledge.
2. Hang Xinzhai organized the Academic Research Society for the Book of Changes, named Yanji Xueshe, and served as the main lecturer on the Book of Changes within the society. He wrote the six-volume Yi Xie (Essentials of the Book of Changes) as a lecture manual. Additionally, he authored Initial Notes on Learning the Book of Changes, Further Notes on Learning the Book of Changes, Random Observations on Yi Numerology, Miscellaneous Notes on Reading the Book of Changes, Corrections to Shen’s Yi Shuo Yin Yi, and Shen’s Corrected Method of Divining with Yarrow Sticks. These works are collectively titled 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 Book of Changes’s symbolic and numerical methods, as well as their applications in natural sciences. These ideas have provided significant inspiration and guidance for modern research in natural sciences. Therefore, the Book of Changes Studio, based on the eighth-year publication of Yanji Xueshe, has organized multiple Book of Changes experts to punctuate, proofread, and organize Seven Works of Hang’s Yi Studies to meet the needs of.
4. The source text used in this book is the eighth-year publication of Yanji Xueshe.
5. This work includes punctuation, literary processing, and proofreading.
6. The Book of Changes Studio conducted a meticulous proofreading of the source text, correcting all obvious errors without noting them. Doubtful passages are marked with small annotations.
7. The punctuation in this book follows the current standardized rules for punctuation, combined with the general practices for punctuating classical texts. However, em-dashes, ellipses, underscores, and proper noun marks are not used. No interlinear punctuation marks are employed in the main text. Commas are used to separate parallel titles.
8. Literary processing. Simplified Chinese characters are based on the Regulations for Literary Usage, Table of Simplified Characters, and List of Discarded Variant Characters issued by the National Literary Work Committee, with Cihai and Chinese Character Dictionary as references. Unresolved issues follow the general practices for classical text editing. All text is simplified where possible. Ancient characters, non-standard characters, or obvious typographical errors in the source text are uniformly replaced with standardized simplified characters. Obvious errors are corrected directly. Otherwise, the original text is preserved without changes.
9. Renowned Book of Changes scholar Wang Lijun provided the necessary source text for the Book of Changes Studio and guided the entire work. His contributions are hereby gratefully acknowledged.