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« To one person appears his spirit clear like the light of the day, to the other one shadowy like a twilight, to a third one black like the night. The person who isn't happy, don't need it and the one who doesn't understand it has probably an excellent reason not to do it. »
C.G. Jung


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Guide to the interpretation of the most antique classic text in the Chinese culture.

The I Ching, "The book of transformations", Yi Jing in Chinese, is a book for consultation and strategy, a discrete and profound advisor. The answers are suggested through a symbology which has been preserved the value during ages. It is the most sold book after the Bible. You buy it, you give it as a present, you try to consult it, but without an expert guide the profound significances remain encrypted in their symbology, where you can perceive the values but they remain always evasive.
The Yi Jing helps us to pass the door, to start new thing, to pass to the other side. They don't give the future of the situation, but the sol clef, the colouring, the "Qi of the situation", to read the Qi is more difficult but without any doubt more Chinese.
It acts on psychological times and not on chronological ones. The transformation is the only unchangeable law in the universe. The Yi Jing are the roots both of the Taoism as well as of the Confucianism.

The most common text translated from the Chinese language is the one by Richard Wilhelm, transcribed from the Manciù edition of Zhu Xi, XIII° century after Christ, imperial edition of 1713. Wilhelm Christian Protestant missionary in China, when talking about the respect for the Chinese culture said once: " I am in China since thirty years, but I didn't christen a Chinese person at all. "
Pupil of the Confucian Master Lau Nai Suann, the translation experiences a great influence of the Confucian culture, the consultations you receive at the Zu Center are of Taoist influence instead.
The interpretation happens through te decodification of the ba gua, eight trigraphs, also the study base of acupuncture and Zu Reflexology. The Chinese text of the legend tells that Fu Xi, had recognized the ba gua on the back of a tortoise that came out from the Yellow River.
Fu Xi was historically a real figure like the Biblical Adam. King Wen and the Duke of Zhou lived really but in the way of Achilles and Roland: carrying out much more tasks when they were dead then when alive.
Nobody invented the Yi Jing, it isn't claimed by any author, it is constructed on its own, like a big patchwork that accompanies us from its origin on, getting perfect and self-settling century after century.

"The time where the Book of Transformations appeared was the period where the kingdom of the Shang was ending, and the kingdom of the Zhou was starting, Kind Wen and the tyrant Di Xin opposed one to the other"
(Yi Jing, Great commentary, books II, chap. 11 pag. 376 Adelphi)

Dynasty Shang I° Period XVII/XV° B.C.
(Future is studied through prediction)

II° Period XV/XII° B.C.
(Generation of the writing)

Dynasty Zhou I° Period XII/VIII° B.C.
(Text formation)

551 - 479 B.C. the contribution of Confucius V/IV° B.C.
(Creation of the hexagrams)

In 1974 in Mawangdui, near Changsha capital of the province Hunan, in central China, a piece of silk width 49 cm and length 85 cm was discovered during the diggings of a tomb built in 168 B.C. On this piece we find a writing in black ink with the text of the 64 hexagrams of the Yi Jong, as well as some dialogues between Confucius and his pupils regarding the interpretation of the book and excerpts of other comments. This manuscript together with another one, carved on bamboo bands and found at the beginning of the seventies in Puyang, is one of the most antique finds of the Yi Jing which exist till nowadays.