HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- I-Ching or the "Book of Changes" is an ancient Chinese divination manual and a book of wisdom which interprets hexagrams (symbols made up of six stacked horizontal lines ...
A complex oracular system developed from these symbols: users ask questions of the I Ching text and perform an algorithm to derive "hexagrams," mathematical figures composed of six solid or broken ...
His use of the I Ching, or “Book of Changes,” is well documented and for this work he used its hexagrams, or six-element arrangements of solid or broken lines, to determine the placement of the two ...