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I Ching / Book of Changes: Book I

Richard Wilhelm's and Cary F. Baynes translations of the classic "I Ching: Or, Book of Changes"

3rd. ed., Bollingen Series XIX, (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967, 1st ed. 1950).

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Key to Hexagrams:

KEY Ch'ien Chên K'an Kên K'un Sun Li Tui
☰ Ch'ien ☳ Chên ☵ K'an ☶ Kên ☷ K'un ☴ Sun ☲ Li ☱ Tui
Ch'ien ☰ Chi'en   1   34  5  26  11  9  14 43
Chên ☳ Chên 25 51  3  27 24 42 21 17
K'an ☵ K'an  6  40 29  4   7  59 64 47
Kên ☶ Kên 33 62 39 52 15 53 56 31
K'un ☷ K'un  12 16  8  23  2  20 35 45
Sun ☴ Sun 44 32 48 18 46 57 50 28
Li ☲ Li 13 55 63 22 36 37 30 49
Tui ☱ Tui 10 54 60 41 19 61 38 58

Table of contents

  1. Ch'ien  /  The Creative   |  LINES
  2. K'un  /  The Receptive   |  LINES
  3. Chun  /  Difficulty at the Beginning   |  LINES
  4. Mêng  /  Youthful Folly   |  LINES
  5. Hsü  /  Waiting (Nourishment)   |  LINES
  6. Sung  /  Conflict   |  LINES
  7. Shih  /  The Army   |  LINES
  8. Pi  /  Holding Together [Union]   |  LINES
  9. Hsiao Ch'u  /  The Taming Power of the Small   |  LINES
  10. Lü  /  Treading [Conduct]   |  LINES
  11. T'ai  /  Peace   |  LINES
  12. P'i  /  Standstill [Stagnation]   |  LINES
  13. T'ung Jên  /  Fellowship with Men   |  LINES
  14. Ta Yu  /  Possession in Great Measure   |  LINES
  15. Ch'ien  /  Modesty   |  LINES
  16. Yü  /  Enthusiasm   |  LINES
  17. Sui  /  Following   |  LINES
  18. Ku  /  Work on what has been spoiled [ Decay ]   |  LINES
  19. Lin  /  Approach   |  LINES
  20. Kuan  /  Contemplation (View)   |  LINES
  21. Shih Ho  /  Biting Through   |  LINES
  22. Pi  /  Grace   |  LINES
  23. Po  /  Splitting Apart   |  LINES
  24. Fu  /  Return (The Turning Point)   |  LINES
  25. Wu Wang  /  Innocence (The Unexpected)   |  LINES
  26. Ta Ch'u  /  The Taming Power of the Great   |  LINES
  27. I  /  Corners of the Mouth (Providing Nourishment)   |  LINES
  28. Ta Kuo  /  Preponderance of the Great   |  LINES
  29. K'an  /  The Abysmal (Water)   |  LINES
  30. Li  /  The Clinging, Fire   |  LINES
  31. Hsien  /  Influence (Wooing)   |  LINES
  32. Hêng  /  Duration   |  LINES
  33. Tun  /  Retreat   |  LINES
  34. Ta Chuang  /  The Power of the Great   |  LINES
  35. Chin  /  Progress   |  LINES
  36. Ming I  /  Darkening of the light   |  LINES
  37. Chia Jên  /  The Family [The Clan]   |  LINES
  38. K'uei  /  Opposition   |  LINES
  39. Chien  /  Obstruction   |  LINES
  40. Hsieh  /  Deliverance   |  LINES
  41. Sun  /  Decrease   |  LINES
  42. I  /  Increase   |  LINES
  43. Kuai  /  Break-through (Resoluteness)   |  LINES
  44. Kou  /  Coming to Meet   |  LINES
  45. Ts'ui  /  Gathering Together [Massing]   |  LINES
  46. Shêng  /  Pushing Upward   |  LINES
  47. K'un  /  Oppression (Exhaustion)   |  LINES
  48. Ching  /  The Well   |  LINES
  49. Ko  /  Revolution (Molting)   |  LINES
  50. Ting  /  The Caldron   |  LINES
  51. Chên  /  The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)   |  LINES
  52. Kên  /  Keeping Still, Mountain   |  LINES
  53. Chien  /  Development (Gradual Progress)   |  LINES
  54. Kuei Mei  /  The Marrying Maiden   |  LINES
  55. Fêng  /  Abundance [Fullness]   |  LINES
  56. Lü  /  The Wanderer   |  LINES
  57. Sun  /  The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind)   |  LINES
  58. Tui  /  The Joyous, Lake   |  LINES
  59. Huan  /  Dispersion [Dissolution]   |  LINES
  60. Chieh  /  Limitation   |  LINES
  61. Chung Fu  /  Inner Truth   |  LINES
  62. Hsiao Kuo  /  Preponderance of the Small   |  LINES
  63. Chi Chi  /  After Completion   |  LINES
  64. Wei Chi  /  Before Completion   |  LINES

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