I Ching Ancient Divination Studies: Chou I Shang's School

Author: Shang Binghe
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The ten volumes of Ancient Divination in the I Ching and the twenty volumes of Shang's I Ching Studies 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 annotated Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies for mutual collation, striving for completeness. For example, in Volume 7 of Ancient Divination in the I Ching, there are twenty-one entries from Xu Shifeng's Divination Not Reaching the Summit to Confucius Divining for the Five Sons of Shangqu, which were absent in the original publication. These have now been supplemented based on Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies to make the text complete. Additionally, Explanations of I Ching Images in the Zuo Zhuan and Guo Yu has been moved from Shang's I Ching Studies to Ancient Divination in the I Ching, aiming to connect ancient divination cases from the Spring and Autumn period to the Ming and Qing dynasties in a continuous two-thousand-year tradition. The style of The Transmission of the Elder of Zixi and Yu Shengyu's Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies – Shang's I Ching Studies has 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 for reference. 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. The original text contained numerous missing characters, all of which have been supplemented. For instance, in the chronology of the Zuo Zhuan, the original often omitted the character "gong" (Lord) after names like Zhao Gong (Lord Zhao), Xiang Gong (Lord Xiang), and Heng Gong (Lord Heng), which has now been corrected for easier reference. Similarly, when Shang's text listed the hexagrams Jiji (Fulfillment) and Weiji (Unfulfillment) together, it often abbreviated them as "Ji, Weiji," which has been fully written out. Other corrections are numerous but will not be detailed here.
The ten volumes of Ancient Divination in the I Ching and the twenty volumes of Shang's I Ching Studies 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 annotated Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies for mutual collation, striving for completeness. For example, in Volume 7 of Ancient Divination in the I Ching, there are twenty-one entries from Xu Shifeng's Divination Not Reaching the Summit to Confucius Divining for the Five Sons of Shangqu, which were absent in the original publication. These have now been supplemented based on Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies to make the text complete. Additionally, Explanations of I Ching Images in the Zuo Zhuan and Guo Yu has been moved from Shang's I Ching Studies to Ancient Divination in the I Ching, aiming to connect ancient divination cases from the Spring and Autumn period to the Ming and Qing dynasties in a continuous two-thousand-year tradition. The style of The Transmission of the Elder of Zixi and Yu Shengyu's Collected Works of Shang's I Ching Studies – Shang's I Ching Studies has 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 for reference. 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. The original text contained numerous missing characters, all of which have been supplemented. For instance, in the chronology of the Zuo Zhuan, the original often omitted the character "gong" (Lord) after names like Zhao Gong (Lord Zhao), Xiang Gong (Lord Xiang), and Heng Gong (Lord Heng), which has now been corrected for easier reference. Similarly, when Shang's text listed the hexagrams Jiji (Fulfillment) and Weiji (Unfulfillment) together, it often abbreviated them as "Ji, Weiji," which has been fully written out. Other corrections are numerous but will not be detailed here.