英文摘要
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This article analyzes the references and interpretations of Zhouyi in Zuozhuan. There are three sections in this article: The first section is a brief literature review on the use of Zhouyi during the Spring and Autumn period; The second section is a discussion on the two ways of referencing Zhouyi in Zuozhuan: (1) as a rhetorical method quoted in discourses that contains moral debates, medical analysis, and judgment of people, etc. (2) as divinations which not only predict the outcome of battles or marriages but also play an important role in the narrative in Zuozhuan. The two ways of referencing Zhouyi show a wide variety of interpretations of Zhouyi. Category (1) indicates that even though Zhouyi had already become a canon in the Spring and Autumn period, it was still used and understood circumstantially and without fixed meaning. Category (2) points out how the author of Zuozhuan used the divinations from Zhouyi to foretell the outcome of certain events and to comment on people in the narrative. Lastly, the third section compares the accounts of Zhouyi in Zuozhuan with Pre-Qin scholarly work which also references Zhouyi. Thus, we can see how Zhouyi, a text that had both practical and rhetorical aspects in Zuozhuan, gradually lost this dual quality and became purely rhetorical in the Warring States period.
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