section_path: Texts/Chinese classics
section_name: Chinese classics
paragraph_text: Chinese classics
  
  Taoism draws on numerous Chinese classics that are not themselves "Taoist" texts but that remain important sources for Taoists. Perhaps the most important of these is the ancient divination text called the Yijing (circa 1150 BCE). The divination method in the Yijing and its associated concepts of yin and yang mapped into 64 " hexagrams "—combinations of the 8 trigrams —has influenced Taoism from its inception until today.
  
  Taoism also drew on other non-Taoist Chinese classic texts including: