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On the Semiotic Thoughts in ZHOUYI (The Book of changes)

Xiankun Li

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s:In ancient China, there was no the discipline of semiotics. From 22 century B.C. to 12 century B.C., our ancestors practised divination by some special symbols for predicting the future events, which may be regarded as the sprouts of semiotics. Those methods in divination were called as Lianshan in Xia dynasty, and Guicang in Shang Dynasty. Till Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 11 Century B.C.), the form of divinations developed more completed, and its explanations were also developed more plentiful. People called it as ZOUYI (The Book of Changes), which was posed in the head of Six-Canons in Pre-Han Dynasty.

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s:In ancient China, there was no the discipline of semiotics. From 22 century B.C. to 12 century B.C., our ancestors practised divination by some special symbols for predicting the future events, which may be regarded as the sprouts of semiotics. Those methods in divination were called as Lianshan in Xia dynasty, and Guicang in Shang Dynasty. Till Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 11 Century B.C.), the form of divinations developed more completed, and its explanations were also developed more plentiful. People called it as ZOUYI (The Book of Changes), which was posed in the head of Six-Canons in Pre-Han Dynasty.

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s:In ancient China, there was no the discipline of semiotics. From 22 century B.C. to 12 century B.C., our ancestors practised divination by some special symbols for predicting the future events, which may be regarded as the sprouts of semiotics. Those methods in divination were called as Lianshan in Xia dynasty, and Guicang in Shang Dynasty. Till Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 11 Century B.C.), the form of divinations developed more completed, and its explanations were also developed more plentiful. People called it as ZOUYI (The Book of Changes), which was posed in the head of Six-Canons in Pre-Han Dynasty.

Key concepts: Divination, Semiotics, China, Philosophy, History, Literature, Meaning (existential), Ancient history

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