Taixuanjing

The Taixuanjing (Chinese太玄 经, Pinyin tài Xuán jīng, W.-G. T'ai- hsuan ching, English Canon of Supreme Mystery ), in Chinese, in addition to other titles mostly short as Taixuan (太玄, The Great Mysterious ') referred to, is a syncretic work of Confucian author Yang Xiong (扬雄, Yáng Xiong, Yang Hsiung, * 53 BC; † 18) from the period of the Han Dynasty.

The work is included in the Daoist canon. From the famous statesman and historian Sima Guang in the Song Dynasty comes a famous comment. The book series Sibu congkan contains a photographic reproduction of one in the time of the Ming Dynasty from the Wanyutang (万 玉堂, WAN yù táng ) Collection transferred song out.

The symbols

The Taixuanjing symbols represent a further development of the Yijing ( I Ching ) symbols represent where tetragrams, ie formed by four lines of symbols, are considered. These consist of unbroken, once broken and double broken lines. By twice broken lines differ in their structure of the I Ching hexagrams. It is

According to the rules of combination, these three types of lines can be at 34 = 81 different arrangements for Tetra frames put together. Because even including a monogram and five digrams, there are a total of 87 Taixuanjing symbols.

Conflicting names

In Unicode, the symbols recording Tai Xuan Jing Symbols found in the Unicode block (U 1 D300 ff), further referred to here symbols found in Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block (U 2600 ff).

Contrary to older sources of Unicode once the broken line ( ) is called the symbol of man, instead of soil; the twice broken line ( ) is called the symbol of the earth, rather than man. This exchange also has an effect on the official names of the five digrams.

While in the article for the description of the block, the Unicode Unicode official designations are used, the Taixuanjing designations are preferably used in this product.

The Unicode as well as Marcel Granet and Zhu Xi (朱熹, Zhū Xī ) used names for the two digrams ( and ) are allocated to the other symbol by Richard Wilhelm in his book the I Ching. More on these different perspectives Blogging is performed at I.

Survey

From the combinations of the three lines, different symbols can be formed, namely

These 120 symbols can be assigned to the following systems:

  • 87 Taixuan (太玄, tài Xuán ), symbols
  • 02 lines (两仪, liǎng yi): Yin and Yang (阴阳/阴阳, Yin Yang )
  • 04 images (四 像, sì Xiang )
  • 08 trigrams (八卦, Ba Gua ), but
  • 19 trigrams can be formed though, but are not present in any system and also not represented in Unicode.

The following summary table shows all 120 icons and their respective affiliation.

   

Expenditure

  • (Song) Sima Guang司马 光: Jizhu Taixuanjing集注 太玄 经( Sibu Beiyao四部 备 要)
  • ( Qing ) Yu Yue俞 樾: Yangzi Taixuan Pingyi扬子 太玄 平 议( Zhuzi Pingyi诸子 平 议, Chunzaitang quanshu春 在 堂 全书)

Western literature

  • D. Walters: The T'ai Hsuan Ching. The Hidden Classic ( Wellington, 1983)
  • Michael Nylan: The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Xiong, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993
  • Michael Loewe (ed. ): Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley, California: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 ( Early China special monograph series; no.2 ), ISBN 1-55729-043-1 (Michael Nylan, pp. 460-466 )
Wade–Giles Richard Wilhelm (sinologist)
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