I Ching/ Yì J¿ng; The Book of Changes: ¿¿ The Daoist & Confucian classic of divination and cosmology

The Classic of Changes (I Ching / Yìj¿ng / ¿¿) is one of the oldest and most enduring texts in the Chinese literary tradition, and one of the oldest books on record. The trigrams and method are classically attributed to the culture hero and legendary emperor Fu Xi (c. 2800 BCE), who also invented fishing, hunting, music, writing, laws, and the calendar. Around 1000 BCE, King Wen of Zhou combined them into the 64 hexagrams and wrote the core judgements, followed by his son the Duke of Zhou, ...