Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Analects, Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Chinese classics, Classic of Filial Piety, Classic of Poetry, Doctrine of the Mean, Erya, Four Books and Five Classics, Gongyang Zhuan, Great Learning, Guliang Zhuan, Han Kitab, Interactions Between Heaven and Mankind, I Ching, Mencius (book), Old Texts, Rites of Zhou, Ruzang, Spring and Autumn Annals, The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, Thirteen Classics, Yili (text), Zuo Zhuan. Excerpt: The I Ching (Wade-Giles) or "Yi J ng" (pinyin), also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes or Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifa system; in Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. Traditionally, the I Ching and its hexagrams were thought to pre-date recorded history, and based on traditional Chinese accounts, its origins trace back to the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BC. Modern scholarship suggests that the earliest layers of the text may date from the end of the 2nd millennium BC, but place doubts on the mythological aspects in the traditional accounts. Some consider the I Ching the oldest extant book of divination, dating from 1,000 BC and before. The oldest manuscript that has been found, albeit incomplete, dates back to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). During the Warring States Period, the text was re-interpreted as a system of cosmology and philosophy that subsequently became intrinsic to Chinese culture. It centered on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change. The standard text originated from the Old Text version ( ) transmitted by Fei Zhi (, c. 50 BC-10 AD) of the Han Dynasty, which survived Qins book-burning. During the Han Dynasty this version competed with the bowdlerised new text ( ) version transmitted by Tian He at the beginning of the Western Han. However, by the time of the Tang Dynasty the Old Text version became accepted as standard. Traditionally it was believed that the principles of the I Ching originated with the mythical Fu Xi ( Fu X ). In this respect he is seen as an early culture hero, one of the earliest legendary rulers of China (traditional dates 2800 BC-2737 BC), reputed to have had the 8 trigrams ( b gua) revealed to him supernaturally. By the time of the legendary