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Re:Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2] by canjobear on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:52AM (#47489560)
I doubt they already had the King Wen order in the Shang dynasty. Manuscripts dated to as late as the Han dynasty have a totally different hexagram order. In any case traditionally the divination book for Shang is considered to be the Guicang, not the I Ching (=Zhouyi = Changes of Zhou), which according to tradition put kun before qian.

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