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Re: I Ching/ Yijing (was Re: musicalexemes (was Re: Interesting Words)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Sunday, November 11, 2001, 4:57
In a message dated 09.11.2001 06:18:07 AM, annis@BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU quotes me &
writes:

>>From: J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> > > > > One may even argue it is the very Cornerstone of all educated Chinese > >culture! (That everything else that came after it - the Tao Te > >Ching/Daodejing, The Art of War, etc. - is just elaborations based on >the > >Oracle - the Book of Changes). > > "All of Chinese thought is a footnote to the Yijing?" Hmm. >That doesn't quite work, isn't quite Chinese. > > "All of Chinese thought is a neo-Confucian commentary on the >Yijing." That works better. :)
Not all educated Chinese subscribe to the neo-Confucianist interpretations of the I Ching. Just cuz the neo-Confucianists have the "mainstream" influence on a large part of East Asian cultures doesn't mean there are other, almost as influential views tapping their roots into the Yijing (I Ching). The I Ching is more rooted in the early post-shamanistic phase of Taoism than anything Confucianist like the Book of Rites. czHANg

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