Grand Changes - Exploratory Diagrams of Images and Numbers 大易象数钩深图

The original work does not specify its compiler.

According to textual research in Liu Shipei’s Notes on Reading the Daoist Canon, it should be the first volume of Diagrams of the Six Classics compiled by Yang Jia and Ye Zhongkan of the Southern Song Dynasty, and later supplemented by Zhang Li of the Yuan Dynasty.

The version in The Daozang has three volumes, classified under the Spiritual Diagrams category of the Dongzhen Section.

Grand Changes - Exploratory Diagrams of Images and Numbers

This book compiles a total of 139 diagrams related to the image-number studies of the Zhouyi created by Confucian scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty. It opens with the anonymous Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate Penetrating Unity and Zhou Dunyi’s Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate, and concludes with Shao Yong’s Diagram of the Supreme World Order and Sima Guang’s Diagram of Concealed Virtue and Subtle Mystery. After each diagram or a group of diagrams, there is an explanatory note interpreting the meaning of the images. Attached at the end of the book is the Diagram of the Transmission of Zhouyi Studies from Ancient to Present Times, which lists the lineage of masters and disciples of Zhouyi studies from the pre-Qin period to the Northern Song Dynasty. Rooted in the five elements theory, this work is a comprehensive compilation of the diagram-based Zhouyi studies of the Song Dynasty, embodying the integration of Confucian and Taoism thought in traditional Chinese philosophy.