About this App
The YOUNG I-CHING 太玄經 ORACLE,
In order to avoid any misunderstandings, it is emphasized that THE YOUNG I CHING (often called “The Second I Ching” or in the English-speaking world “The Alternate I Ching”) is not a new edition of the original I Ching. In apparent contrast to the six lines of the hexagrams of the I Ching, the YOUNG I CHING is characterized by the four lines of the tetragrams. See also: "THE ELEMENTAL CHANGES", The Ancient Chinese Companion to The I Ching, translated by Michael Nylan, SUNY, New York, 1994.
The present language game, developed as a computer program and modeled on the T'ai Hsüan Ching (太玄經, English: Canon of Supreme Mystery), reflects the structure of the original I Ching, but is something absolutely independent due to the coherent system and the different line texts .
THE YOUNG I-CHING is not a fortune-telling program in the usual sense, but it can give you food for thought on how to deal with difficult situations.
Start THE YOUNG I-CHING by
1. Ask yourself a question (starting with: why, why, why) and type it in - avoid questions that can only be answered with "yes" or "no".
2. The computer provides the current date and time.
3. You will receive an answer immediately - done! (You can find out what the two additional numbers mean below).
History:
The tetragrams of the T'ai Hsüan Ching are each made up of an upper and a lower "bigram" (element of two lines), instead of the two "trigrams" (elements of three lines) corresponding to the I Ching. The four lines of the T'ai Hsüan Ching, each with 3 possibilities, result in 3^4 = 81 (instead of the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching) possible tetragrams, to each of which 9, i.e. a total of 729 evaluations, were added.
In response, you will receive two numbers in addition to these ratings, a) that of the trigram and b) that of the ratings, and you can therefore read the detailed version in Michael Nylan's correct translation. (Remember that the reviews are read from top to bottom!) I have also included the original texts in Chinese characters on the answer pages, with the title (always the first character) of the tetragrams and the three-part main text at the top and the respective relevant of the nine possible ratings can be found at the bottom.
Method:
a) The letters of the question are transformed into numbers according to the alphabetic code (a=1, b=2, etc.) and added. The sum then results (according to Shao Yong) in the upper bigram.
b) The month and year together with the day (again according to Shao Yong's algorithms) create the lower bigram.
c) The numerical values of the lower and upper bigram are the coordinates for finding the tetragram, which contains one of the nine evaluations as an answer, which is finally determined using the numerical value of the transformation of the hour and minute freely according to Shao Yong's method.
Texts:
The basis of this app is the T'ai Hsüan Ching 太玄經 (Mystery).
Instead of my own words, I used proverbs and quotations from all over the world for the interpretation, the meanings of which either correspond or at least overlap with the key words of the assessments.
In order not to stray too far from the original, I always consulted the competent translation by M. Nylan, whose historically knowledgeable and sensitive comments I owe a lot to my understanding of the mystery.
This ultimately resulted in a relatively independent canon of answers, a mystery word game, so to speak, which is reminiscent of both the T'ai Hsüan Ching and the I Ching but imitates its system so stringently that it seems justified to access it according to Shao Yong's guidelines . - And Yang Xiong would definitely have turned a blind eye to it.
For Nicolas
