Series
The commentarial tradition that turned oracle bone divination into a philosophical system. What each Wing says and why it matters.
Part 1
For most of its history, the I-Ching was a divination manual. The Xici Zhuan changed that. It took the sixty-four hexagrams and built a theory of reality around them — yin and yang as cosmic engines, change as the fundamental principle.
Part 2
The Discussion of the Trigrams doesn't explain the hexagrams. It explains the building blocks — the eight trigrams — and reveals that they were never just symbols. They were a complete taxonomy of the natural world.
Part 3
The Wenyan Zhuan ignores sixty-two hexagrams and lavishes all its attention on just two — Qian and Kun. The “hidden dragon” to “arrogant dragon” sequence is a complete theory of how power should be wielded.
Part 4
These are the Wings people encounter without knowing it. Every hexagram page shows the Judgment commentary and the Image. But most readers don’t realize these are separate texts — the Tuanzhuan tells you WHY, the Xiangzhuan gives you a picture.
Part 5
The Xugua tells a story — why this hexagram follows that one. The Zagua strips each hexagram to a word. Together, the two shortest Wings reveal the I-Ching’s complete reading method: sequential and paradigmatic.