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Yi (易,周易Book of Changes, or I Ching), or Yi jing易经, appeared during the transition from the Shang Dynasty to Zhou. The book uses arrangements of eight trigrams (three solid and/or broken lines forming patterns which represent Heaven, Earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain and lake) through which natural and social changes can be foretold. (More...)