Bibliographic Summary of the Zhouyi Benyi
周易本義提要
Bibliographic Summary of the Zhouyi Benyi
周易本義提要
Bibliographic Summary
提要
臣等謹案周易本義宋朱子撰易自貫直康成王弼革變次序取附經古本二篇十翼為十二卷乃考正之分上下經二篇十翼為十
Your servants respectfully note: the Zhouyi Benyi was composed by Master Zhu of the Song dynasty. The Changes, from the revisions of Zheng Xuan through the reordering by Wang Bi, had long been rearranged. Zhu Xi restored the ancient text arrangement of two books with Ten Wings, producing a work in twelve volumes that separated the Upper and Lower Classics into two parts with the Ten Wings making ten.
朱熹 (Zhu Xi): Zhu Xi (1130-1200 AD), styled Yuanhui, was the preeminent Neo-Confucian philosopher of the Southern Song dynasty. His Zhouyi Benyi (周易本義, 'Original Meaning of the Changes of Zhou') sought to recover the Yijing's original function as a divination manual, in contrast to the philosophical interpretation tradition of Wang Bi. The work became the standard Yijing text for the imperial examination system and remained so through the end of the Qing dynasty.
The 'Ten Wings' (十翼) are the ten traditional commentaries appended to the core hexagram text: the Commentary on the Judgment (彖傳, upper and lower), Commentary on the Images (象傳, upper and lower), Great Commentary (繫辭傳, upper and lower), Commentary on the Trigrams (說卦傳), Sequence of the Hexagrams (序卦傳), Miscellaneous Notes (雜卦傳), and the Wenyan Commentary (文言傳). Zhu Xi's main contribution was separating these commentaries from the hexagram text, which Wang Bi had interspersed.
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