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unusual facts about I Ching's influence


I Ching's influence

The ABC soap opera Dark Shadows featured yarrow sticks and a copy of the I Ching that allowed characters meditating on the hexagrams to astral travel.


...And Found

His roommate, using what appears to be the I Ching, tells him that Jin will find love soon, adding cryptically that its color will be orange.

Arashikage

This was denoted by the tattooing of the clan symbol on the forearm, the 63rd hexagram of the I Ching.

Members of the Arashikage clan wore a tattoo on their right forearm, which is the ba gua symbol for 'water' and 'fire', representing the 63rd hexagram of the I Ching.

Brazilian Abdominal Acupuncture

On the abdomen we find the 2 principles yin-yang, 3 treasures, 4 seas, 5 elements, 6 connections up-down, 7 feeling aggression areas, 8 trigrams and 8 odd meridians, 9 numerological sections, 10 dimensions of Kabala on the abdomen, several forms of 12 meridians, scheme to shelter the body, I Ching on abdomen, western and oriental zodiac signs, tonification and sedation using 5 elements on abdomen, pulse diagnosis on abdomen, etc.

Chí Hòa Prison

The prison's main structure is a three-floor octagonal building, heavily influenced by the I Ching's eight trigrams theory.

Chinese multiplication table

In the opinion of Wang Guowei, a noted scholar, the nine-nine table probably started with nine because of the "worship of nine" in ancient China; the emperor was considered the "nine five supremacy" in the Book of Change.

Chung-ying Cheng

Professor Cheng's research interests are in the areas of Chinese logic, the I Ching and the origins of Chinese philosophy, Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, the onto-hermeneutics of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (Zen) philosophy.

Double Ninth Festival

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (or double nine) has too much yang (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially dangerous date.

Europeras

The libretto, in twenty-four scenarios, likewise juxtaposes traditional operatic episodes: the libretto begins "Dressed as an Irish princess, he gives birth; they plot to overthrow the French." The area of the stage is divided into 64 quadrants corresponding to the I Ching and the nineteen singers share the space with dancers.

Greater long-tailed hamster

Some authorities maintain that the 15th gua of the Yi Jing (I Ching) refers repeatedly to this animal.

I Ching

The other encoded I Ching symbols were added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2003 with the release of version 4.0.

In the table below, each hexagram's translation is accompanied by a form of R. Wilhelm translation (which is the source for the Unicode names), followed by a retranslation.

In addition, the Republic of Korea Air Force aircraft roundel incorporates the Taiji in conjunction with the trigrams representing Heaven.

I Ching trigrams were added to the Unicode Standard in June, 1993 with the release of version 1.1.

Ishido: The Way of Stones

Integrated into Ishido is a, oracle, way to ask questions of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.

Marie-Louise von Franz

Von Franz, in 1968, was the first to argue that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching.

Morton Feldman

Feldman's experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching.

Ramakrishna's influence

It premiered on September 16, 2006 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California, performed by Orange County’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl St. Clair with the Pacific Chorale directed by John Alexander.

In 2006, composer Philip Glass wrote The Passion of Ramakrishna — a choral work as a "tribute to Ramakrishna".

Rose Quong

Quong was deeply interested in Chinese philosophy, and studied it for much of her life; her presentations frequently included material from the I Ching.

The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

Cat has no worries about the event; only, she’s having uneasy feelings and consults her I Ching.

Wendy Mae Chambers

Currently she is working on a musical system and set of compositions based on the I Ching (Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese text, which led Cage to the develop the technique of "chance operations" in the 1950s.

Yuan An

Born in Ruyang (汝陽), Ru'nan (汝南) commandery (near modern Shangshui, Henan province) to a gentry family, Yuan An inherited knowledge in the Book of Changes from his grandfather Yuan Liang (袁良), who had reached the position of magistrate around 25.

Zhou Yi

The I Ching, also known as Zhouyi, one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts


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