Zhōuyì tú 周易圖
Diagrams of the Book of Changes
Anonymous late-Southern-Sòng compilation of Yìjīng 易經 diagrams in three juan, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0157 / CT 157 = TC 157), 洞真部 靈圖類
About the work
A three-juan album of 114 diagrams (tú 圖) representing the Yìjīng and its number-and-symbol commentaries, with explanatory text. The compilation opens with the Tàijí tú 太極圖 (the Great Ultimate) and the Zhōushì tàijí tú 周氏太極圖 of Zhōu Dūnyí 周敦頤 (1017–1073), with Zhōu Dūnyí’s own Tàijí tú shuō 太極圖說 quoted in full; it then proceeds through the Hétú 河圖 (“River Chart”) and Luòshū 洛書 (“Luò Writing”), the bāguà 八卦 cosmograms, the Xiāntiān 先天 / Hòutiān 後天 sequences, and the standard yīnyáng / five-phases / hexagram-structure diagrams of Northern- and Southern-Sòng Yì-numerology. More than half the text reproduces the work of Zhèng Shàoméi 鄭少梅 (alias Zhèng Dōngqīng 鄭東卿; mid-twelfth century), recorded in Zhízhāi shūlù jiětí 直齋書錄解題 1.18–19 — Zhèng is either author or commentator of a great number of the diagrams in juan 1.
Prefaces
No preface in the source; the text opens directly with the Tàijí tú and an explanatory note that the Tàijí 太極 has neither image nor number, but is one qì 氣 only — the lighter and clearer of which rises to become Heaven, the heavier and turbid sinking to become Earth, thus generating the Two Forms (兩儀).
Abstract
Marc Kalinowski, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:746 (§3.A.2, Divination and Numerology), dates the text to the late Southern Sòng. The terminus a quo is set by an explicit citation (1.28b–30b) of the Róngzhāi suíbǐ 容齋隨筆 of Hóng Mài 洪邁 (1123–1203), published in 1180, in a passage concerning the Táng Zhōuyì jǔzhèng 周易舉正 — significantly, the details of Hóng Mài’s discovery of that work in a Daoist canon held at Fúzhōu were later deleted from the standard edition reproduced in Sìbù cóngkān. The terminus ante quem is set by the absence of any reference to figures later than the second half of the twelfth century: the diagrams must therefore have been compiled between the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. Liú Shīpéi 劉師培 reviewed this evidence and published an annotated table of contents in Dú Dàozàng jì 讀道藏記 7b–9a; see also the colophon by Chén Hóngxù 陳弘緒 (1597–1665) in Jīngyì kǎo 經義考 41.11b–12b. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1180 / notAfter 1220.
Translations and research
No full translation. Standard scholarly entry: Marc Kalinowski, “Zhouyi tu,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 746. For the broader Sòng Yì-tú tradition see Liú Shīpéi 劉師培, Dú Dàozàng jì 讀道藏記 (in Liú Shēnshū yíshū 劉申叔遺書); Michael Lackner, “La position d’une expression dans un texte: explorations diagrammatiques de la signification du Yijing,” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 12 (1990): 35–47.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0158
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 746.