I Ching (English Version)

🇰🇷 South Korea — Put It on the National Flag

The Taegeukgi features the yin-yang at its center, surrounded by the four trigrams: Qian (Heaven), Kun (Earth), Kan (Water), and Li (Fire).

It is the only national flag in the world built upon the symbols of the I Ching.

🇩🇪 Germany — Wrote It into Binary Code

Leibniz saw the diagram of 64 hexagrams and discovered that the solid and broken lines corresponded perfectly to 1 and 0.

His paper on binary arithmetic rewrote the foundational code of the entire information age.

🇯🇵 Japan — Embedded It into Institutions and Spirit

From the civil service exams of the Nara period, to the divination rituals of the Heian-era Bureau of Yin-Yang, to Panasonic's corporate motto "Endless generation and change is what is meant by Yi" —

In Japan, the I Ching is not a foreign classic; it is a locally functioning cog.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Sent It into Oxford's Lecture Halls

In 1876, James Legge became Oxford University's first professor of Chinese.

In 1882, he published the first reliable complete English translation of the I Ching at Oxford —

marking the moment this Chinese classic was recognized by Britain's highest academic institution as a "sacred text of humanity."

🇫🇷 France — Preserved It in the National Library

In 1701, French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet sent a 27-page letter from Beijing to Leibniz, enclosing the Fuxi 64-hexagram diagram.

That letter is still held today at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalog number Fonds français 17249 —

the founding document of European sinological study of the I Ching.

🇺🇸 United States — Invited It into Harvard Classrooms and Princeton's Book Series

Harvard professor Michael Puett's course on Chinese philosophy fills over 700 seats in Sanders Theatre, ranking among the top three most-enrolled non-technical courses at the university in recent years.

Princeton University Press placed the I Ching in its "Lives of Great Religious Books" series, alongside the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad Gita —

it is the only Chinese book ever included in the collection.

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• "All day long the superior man is creatively active." — Hexagram ䷀ Qian (The Creative)

• "True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward." — Hexagram ䷳ Gen (Keeping Still, Mountain)

• "If you are sincere, you have success in your heart, and whatever you do succeeds." — Hexagram ䷜ Kan (The Abysmal, Water)

• "Thus the superior man sets his life in order and examines himself." — I Ching, Ten Wings

• "No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return." — I Ching