Tetragram for Doubt

It frames doubt as conflict within a situation.

The opening gloss says yin and yang—opposing forces—grind against each other; things split into “as if so, as if not.” It describes tension in circumstances, not a judgment about the reader.

How is it related to the I Ching?

It reworks the I Ching through a different line system.

Yang Xiong completed the text around 2 BCE. Its figures use four positions and three line types tied to heaven, earth and people; a poetic image and short judgments develop each reading. Fan Wang, a later Chinese scholar, arranged the earliest surviving version in the Jin dynasty.