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Jiaoshi Yilin

焦氏易林 (Jiao's Forest of Changes)

The Yijing's sixty-four hexagrams multiplied into 4,096 possible transitions between them, each given its own short verse, turns a compact divination manual into an exhaustive catalogue of every situation a reading could produce.

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  • I Ching (Book of Changes) · c. 900-200 BC (core hexagram and line texts Western Zhou; the Ten Wings commentarial layer added across the Warring States and Han)

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