The I Ching System Structure

The I Ching system is built up from sections and I Ching entities. Any section has the following properties:

1. A section represents both the usual textual sections of a book, e.g., an introduction or a prologue, and some specific I Ching sections, see section for more details.
2. There may be 1 to n sections on the system.
3. A single section comprises all of the following:
   • A name that uniquely identifies it, e.g., prologue.
   • A description.
   • An initial content.
   • 1 to n initial resources.

I Ching entities are only lines, trigrams and hexagrams, see section . Properties of I Ching entities are:

• A name that uniquely identifies it.
• 1 to n attributes. See section .
• 1 to n relationships. See section .
• 1 to n initial resources.

The general structure of the I Ching system is depicted in figure .

Figure: I Ching structure