Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Among the many forms of divination is a cleromancy method using the I Ching (易經) or Book of Changes. I Ching comprises 64 hexagrams and commentary upon these symbols. Each hexagram comprises 6 lines, either broken of solid, representing either yin or yang. By randomly generating these six lines and then reading the text associated with it the book is used as an oracle. Lines can also be called either young (stable) or old (changing). Any hexagram that contains "old yin" or "old yang" can change into a new hexagram when the any "old" lines change into their opposites, thus the person consulting the oracle will read both commentary specific to the changing lines as well as looking up the newly formed hexagram.Throughout China's region of cultural influence (including Korea, Japan and Vietnam), scholars have added comments and interpretation to this work, one of the most important in ancient Chinese culture; it has also attracted the interest of many thinkers in the West. Historical and philosophical information, as well as a list of English translations, can be found here. The text is extremely dense reading. It is not unknown for experienced soothsayers to ignore the text, building the oracle from the pictures created by the lines, bigrams, trigrams, and final hexagram."@en }
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- I_Ching_divination abstract "Among the many forms of divination is a cleromancy method using the I Ching (易經) or Book of Changes. I Ching comprises 64 hexagrams and commentary upon these symbols. Each hexagram comprises 6 lines, either broken of solid, representing either yin or yang. By randomly generating these six lines and then reading the text associated with it the book is used as an oracle. Lines can also be called either young (stable) or old (changing). Any hexagram that contains "old yin" or "old yang" can change into a new hexagram when the any "old" lines change into their opposites, thus the person consulting the oracle will read both commentary specific to the changing lines as well as looking up the newly formed hexagram.Throughout China's region of cultural influence (including Korea, Japan and Vietnam), scholars have added comments and interpretation to this work, one of the most important in ancient Chinese culture; it has also attracted the interest of many thinkers in the West. Historical and philosophical information, as well as a list of English translations, can be found here. The text is extremely dense reading. It is not unknown for experienced soothsayers to ignore the text, building the oracle from the pictures created by the lines, bigrams, trigrams, and final hexagram.".