Abstract:

Up to now there is hardly text analysis of the conte nt of "Confucius says" that appears in the popular version of the Appendices to the Book o f Changes, because those annotators and commentators have almost without exception paid the ir attention for ages only to the words, phrases and sentences. Rarely were modern translations and annotations of The Book of Changes and its Ap pendices published in the last two decades that would make textual analyses of the passages that were believed to be Confucius' words. The textual research tries to collect together those passages clearly marked with "Confucius says" in the popular version of Append ices, and analyzes Confucius' comments and expositions of The Book of Changes more deeply, thus showing that the content of this aspect represents a quintessential and brilliant part of Confucius' thought, which deserves our attention.

Key words: Appendlices to the Book of Change, Confucius says, text analysis