In this video we are going to look at the phrase she da chuan 涉大川, ‘cross the great river’ and the early usage of the keywords from this phrase.

(Click on the picture to hear the text in a video) The Yijing, the Chinese Book of Changes, is a book of divination that is used by thousands of people all over the world. For more than twenty-five hundred years it is offering advice to those who hav...

素履往无咎 Su 素: in early texts almost exclusively used as a descriptive adjective: ‘unadorned, plain, not processed or modified’. This also means that what follows it is a noun, an object. We already see this usage on bronze inscriptions from aroun...

Heaven and Humankind Are One: Using the I Ching to Enhance Your Practice and Personal Life “If you wish to be a great doctor you should be well-versed in I Ching.” –Sun Simiao (581-682) Welcome to the I Ching, the 2,500 year-old tome used throughout...

In 2005 Dong Shan 董珊 from the University of Beijing came across a dagger-axe that was held in a private collection.   The axe, dated around 900-800 BC, contains an inscription:   一六一一一六，曰：鼑（鼎）止（趾）眞（顚）；鼑（鼎）黃耳，奠止（趾）...