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What is it that embodies the essence of Chinese culture?
If asked overseas, I wondered how this could be answered. After long and deep consideration I chose Yi-jing, which has no parallel in Western culture.
Yi contains the rules of nature. The rules of nature are a beacon for humanity, the criteria for human behaviour, the origins of wisdom and the underlying essentials of our diverse cultures.
-- written by Dr. Kaiwan GAN
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The Yi Jing or I Ching is known in English as the "Book of Changes". It has been used in China and the East for well on three thousand years both as a divination tool and as a philosophical text for seekers of wisdom.
The Yi Jing or Book of Changes comprises sixty-four figures known in English as "hexagrams". Each of these hexagrams has a name in Chinese, for example JIA REN, FENG or JUE. Each of these 64 hexagrams is said to represent a particular life situation or phase, and the full sixty-four are held to stand for all the possible situations in life.