The Yi Jing (I Ching, Book of Changes) — one of the oldest Chinese texts, consisting of 64 hexagrams used for divination and accompanied by philosophical commentaries that became foundational for Chinese cosmology and metaphysics.
The 64 hexagrams represent all possible states of change and transformation — reality is constituted by dynamic patterns of yin and yang. The Ten Wings (Confucian commentaries, c. 300 BCE) provided the philosophical interpretation: the sage reads the patterns of change to navigate life wisely. Foundational for Confucian, Taoist, and Neo-Confucian philosophy.
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