Dàyì xiàngshù gōushēn tú 大易象數鉤深圖
Charts for Exploring the Deep Meaning of Symbols and Figures of the Book of Changes
Anonymous Southern-Sòng Yìjīng 易經 chart-compilation in three juan, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0158 / CT 158 = TC 158), 洞真部 靈圖類
About the work
A three-juan compendium of 139 charts and figures with explanatory comments, treating the symbolism of the hexagrams (xiàng 象) and the arithmetical models (shù 數) of the Yìjīng 易經. The work is an expanded version of the Yìjīng section (originally 70 charts) of the Liùjīng tú 六經圖 of Yáng Jiǎ 楊甲 (compiled 1131–1162) and revised by Máo Bānghàn 毛邦翰 (1165–1173); the present recension nearly doubles the Yìjīng charts to 130 + the additional sets it incorporates. The text opens with the Tàijí tú 太極圖 of Zhōu Dūnyí 周敦頤 (1017–1073) — explicitly attributed to him at 1.1b — followed by a parallel Tàijí explanation also represented in [[KR5a0158|DZ 157 Zhōuyì tú]] 1.1a, which the present compiler glosses with “the old text has this image” (舊有此圖). Each chart is accompanied by a short explanatory note. The charts cover the standard Sòng repertoire: Hétú 河圖, Luòshū 洛書, bāguà 八卦 sequences, hexagram structures, calendrical applications, and cosmological diagrams.
Prefaces
No preface in the source.
Abstract
Marc Kalinowski, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:747 (§3.A.2, Divination and Numerology), dates the text to the Southern Sòng. The chart-corpus has three components: 70 original charts (in the same order as the Lìgēngtáng 厲耕堂 edition of the Liùjīng tú), 56 charts forming a homogeneous set (2.12a–b) which were composed by Zhèng Dōngqīng 鄭東卿 and are also found in [[KR5a0158|DZ 157 Zhōuyì tú]], and 13 charts of various origin inserted at the beginning of juan 1. The Liùjīng tú underwent a second redaction by Yè Zhōngkān 葉仲堪 sometime between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth, when the catalogue Zhízhāi shūlù jiětí 直齋書錄解題 3.82–83 first records it; Yè nearly doubled the Yìjīng charts. Kalinowski concludes that Yè Zhōngkān’s version is the same as our present text or its direct source. The catalog meta is therefore silent on authorship, and the attributions to Liú Mù 劉牧 (1011–1064; Dàozàng mùlù xiángzhù 道藏目錄詳註 1.23a) or Zhāng Lǐ 張理 (fl. 1314–1364; Yìjīng tú 易經圖 4.15b) found in some later sources are fictitious. For details, see Liú Shīpéi 劉師培, Dú Dàozàng jì 讀道藏記 9b–12a. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1190 / notAfter 1250.
Translations and research
No full translation. Standard scholarly entry: Marc Kalinowski, “Dayi xiangshu goushen tu,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 747. See also Liú Shīpéi 劉師培, Dú Dàozàng jì 讀道藏記 (in Liú Shēnshū yíshū 劉申叔遺書).
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0159
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 747.