The Yijing: text and commentary.
Read the Book of Changes as a textual tradition while separating its layers and later uses.
Name the textual layer
The Chinese Text Project provides a reading entry point for the Book of Changes. Identify the passage and whether it belongs to the base text or a commentary. Chinese Text Project ↗
A practice and a prediction are different questions
Historical evidence can document divination practices and interpretations. It does not itself establish the reliability of a modern prediction made through the text. Chinese Text Project ↗
Compare interpretations in context
Record the edition, translator, and surrounding text. Keep later cosmological explanations visible as dated interpretations rather than silently merging every layer. Chinese Text Project ↗