Yìshù gōuyǐn tú yílùn jiǔshì 易數鉤隱圖遺論九事
Nine Supplementary Items to the Charts for Probing the Hidden Meaning of the Figures of the Book of Changes
by 劉牧 (撰, posthumous)
About the work
A fourteen-folio supplement (yílùn 遺論) to Liú Mù’s [[KR5a0160|Yìshù gōuyǐn tú 易數鉤隱圖]] (DZ 159), gathering nine Yì-numerology essays (shì 事) that did not enter the main work, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0160 / CT 160 = TC 160), 洞真部 靈圖類. The nine items run: (1) Tài hào shì shòu lóngmǎ fùtú 太皥氏授龍馬負圖 (“Fú Xī Receives the Hétú from the Dragon-Horse”); (2) Chóng liùshísì guà tuīdàng jué 重六十四卦推盪訣 (“Formula for the Doubling and Permutation of the Sixty-Four Hexagrams”); (3) Dàyǎn zhī shù wǔshí 大衍之數五十 (“The Number of the Great Expansion is Fifty”); (4) Bāguà biàn liùshísì guà 八卦變六十四卦 (“Transformation of the Eight Trigrams into the Sixty-Four Hexagrams”); and five further items completing the set. Each is accompanied by a chart and a discursive commentary (lùn 論). The work was published posthumously after Liú Mù’s death in 1064, hence the designation yí 遺 (“leftover, supplementary”); it was already incorporated as an appendix to the Yìshù gōuyǐn tú in Southern-Sòng editions, as recorded in the Jùnzhāi dúshū zhì 郡齋讀書志 1.134.
Prefaces
No preface in the source; each of the nine items opens with its own headed argument (lùn yuē 論曰).
Abstract
Marc Kalinowski, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:748 (§3.A.2, Divination and Numerology), notes that the Yílùn jiǔshì “was published posthumously (yí 遺) after Liú Mù’s death” and “was already included as an appendix in Southern Sòng editions”; the reasons the supplementary items were not included in the main text from the beginning are not clear, but the two works date from the same period. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1064 (Liú Mù’s death and the earliest possible posthumous compilation) / notAfter 1180 (a conservative terminus ante quem securely before the Jùnzhāi dúshū zhì 1.134 entry that records the appended supplement), and identifies the parent work via the commentedTextid field.
Translations and research
No full translation. Standard scholarly entry: Marc Kalinowski, “Yishu gouyin tu yilun jiushi,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 748. For the broader context of Liú Mù’s Yì-numerology see Kidder Smith Jr. et al., Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching (Princeton, 1990); Tze-ki Hon, The Yijing and Chinese Politics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005).
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0161
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.2, 748.