Giới thiệu

Shao Yong (1012—1077) was one of the most diversely talented neo-Confucians in the 11th century in China. He was a cosmologist, historian, poet, prognosticator, and ethicist. His Treatise of Supreme World-Ordering Principles harmonizes and integrates Daoist ontological root of Heaven, Buddhist cosmological base of evolution, and Confucian ethics of humanity. The numero-cosmology articulated in the Treatise pushes forward the Yi-jing (I-Ching)’s metaphysical numerology to a kind of scientific paradigm applicable in studying the philosophy of cosmos and consciousness. This monograph is composed of two parts. Part I is the Introduction of around 20 pages, and Part II is the hexagram-allocated Table which is as long as 1879 pages. The former concisely introduces Yi-Jing’s numerological binary system and Shao Yong’s world-ordering principles. The latter exhaustively exhibits the 129,600-year lines of the allocated hexagrams correlated with four Pillars as well as 4 Emblems, 24 solar Terms, and 60 on-duty hexagrammatic elements.The concerned four Pillars are nominated by Shao Yong as Cycle (yuan), Epoch (hui), Revolution (yun), and Generation (shi) in his Treatise of Supreme World-Ordering Principles. The Pillars constitute a set of ordered periodicities in time which are concatenated with the distribution and redistribution of Yi-Jing’s 64 hexagrams. The whole database of the hexagram-allocated Table elucidates a self-consistent, hierarchical, and nested temporal structure of the solar-terrestrial system in the period of 129,600 years. In addition, It reveals the philosophical commitments behind the big-bang cosmology. Sign "–" in front of some years denotes “BCE”.

Chủ đề: Shao Yong; Yi-Jing (I-Ching); 129600

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