The Zhouyi ( Changes of the Zhou Dynasty , a.k.a. Yijing , the Book of Changes ), usually placed at the head of the Confucian classics, is one of the oldest texts in world history, a product of the Chinese Neolithic Revolution, a distillation of millennia of Neolithic thinking and wisdom. To date, its study remains critical to understanding traditional Chinese thought and society, as it has been continuously applied to new issues generation by generation until the present. This archaic pedigree conjoined with perpetual enhancement means that the idea of “understanding” this text is different for different types of reader, as its application varied in different circumstances, and therefore its uses in divination, in systematic thought, in culture history, or in the archaeology of knowledge provide different perspectives on its form and content, and these types of research are ongoing presently, including connections to a breadth of other disciplines from economics to genetics to quantum mechanics and beyond.
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