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The I Ching or Yijing (Chinese: 易經 Mandarin pronunciation: ⓘ), usually translated as the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC). Over the course of the Warring States and early…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Ching | Language | Old Chinese | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | Original text | 易 at Chinese Wikisource | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | Original title | 易 | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | Publication place | China | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | Published | Late 9th century BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | Subject | Divination, cosmology | 1.00 | infobox |
| I Ching | is a | divination text from the Western Zhou dynasty called the Changes of Zhou | 0.90 | text |
| yin | instance of | The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change | 0.80 | text |
| yang | instance of | The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change | 0.80 | text |
| Wuxing | instance of | The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change | 0.80 | text |
| business | instance of | but Qin dynasty records found at Shuihudi show that the hexagrams were privately consulted to answer questions | 0.80 | text |
| health | instance of | but Qin dynasty records found at Shuihudi show that the hexagrams were privately consulted to answer questions | 0.80 | text |
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