Book of Changes
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Yijing, or The Book of Changes, presented a new system of divination later included as a seminal text in the Confucian canon.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
One, the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, would show up as a plot point in “High Castle” and guide its composition.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2010
Carved in every step were the words to a different verse from the Book of Changes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
So in her swift packing to leave her own world, Mary Malone had taken with her the Book of Changes, as it was called, and the little yarrow stalks with which she read it.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
The last of the “Five Classics” is the Book of Changes, the most mysterious and the most unfathomable of all the books in the Chinese language.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)
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