Zhouyi: I Ching Classic Text

The Zhouyi, known in the West as the I Ching or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest classics of Chinese thought. This app is a reader and study companion for the complete text: all 64 hexagrams with their judgments and line statements, the Ten Wings commentaries, twelve illustrated articles, and a journal for your own notes.

THE COMPLETE CLASSIC TEXT - James Legge's complete English translation of the judgments, all 384 line statements and the Ten Wings commentaries - Browse all 64 hexagrams, each with an ink-wash painting and a familiar English name such as The Creative and The Receptive - A plain-language introduction to every hexagram, with its nuclear, opposite and inverse hexagrams - Switch the app to Chinese for the original classical text, collated against several editions, with a modern Chinese translation of every line

LEARN - Twelve illustrated articles: What Is the Zhouyi?, Yin, Yang and the Lines, The Eight Trigrams, The 64 Hexagrams, Line Positions, Changing Lines & Hexagrams, Ways to Cast, Reading a Cast, The Ten Wings, Casting with Yarrow Stalks, Body and Function in Plum Blossom, Six Lines and Najia - Hexagram of the Day, also as a Home Screen widget

THE TRADITIONAL METHODS, EXPLAINED - See how a hexagram was traditionally formed: the yarrow-stalk method from the Great Commentary with its exact odds, three coins, and the Plum Blossom number and time methods, with every step shown - Zhu Xi's classical rules point you to the passage to read

YOUR JOURNAL - Every hexagram you form is saved as a journal entry; star, search and add your reflections - Export as JSON or text; sync between your own devices with iCloud

DETAILS - Light and dark mode, Dynamic Type, 11 languages - Works fully offline. No ads, no account, no data collected - Open source: github.com/lswang6/zhouyi-classic-text

This is a reference and study app for a public-domain classic. It offers no horoscopes, astrology or predictions.

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