WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Confucian tradition believes that the Shijing collection was edited by Confucius from a collection of 3, 000 pieces to its traditional form of 305 pieces.

Detailed explanation-2: -Yijing, (Chinese: “Classic of Changes” or “Book of Changes”) Wade-Giles romanization I-Ching or Yi-Ching, also called Zhou Yi, an ancient Chinese text, one of the Five Classics (Wujing) of Confucianism.

Detailed explanation-3: -A canonized Confucian classic, the Yijing is a composite text consisting of three distinct layers. Its first layer is comprised by the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams allegedly created by the mythical figure, Fu Xi (see the images of trigrams and hexagrams in Appendixes 1 and 2).

Detailed explanation-4: -Zhu Xi held that the Yijing was originally composed for the purpose of divination by the mythic sage Fuxi, who intended to create a system to aid decision making. The text’s meaning, therefore, could not be captured by a single commentator; it would emerge for each person through the process of divination.