The text of what ancient classic is a set of oracular statements represented by 64 sets of six hexagrams, with each hexagram in turn composed of six lines of Yangs or Yins?
Hexagram (I Ching) Hexagram (I Ching) The "I Ching" book consists of 64 hexagrams. A hexagram in this context is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center). The hexagram lines are traditionally counted from the bottom up, so the lowest line is considered line one while the top line is line six. Hexagrams are formed by combining the original eight trigrams in different combinations. Each hexagram is accompanied with a description, often cryptic, akin to parables. Each
I Ching King Wen of Zhou, the Duke of Zhou, and Confucius, but this traditional attribution is no longer generally accepted. The basic unit of the "Zhou yi" is the hexagram (卦 "guà"), a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 "yáo"). Each line is either broken or unbroken. The received text of the "Zhou yi" contains all 64 possible hexagrams, along with the hexagram's name (卦名 "guàmíng"), a short hexagram statement (彖 "tuàn"), and six line statements (爻辭 "yáocí"). The statements were used to determine the results of divination, but the reasons for having two different methods of reading the