''Guicang'' (歸藏, "Return to the Hidden") is a divination text dating to the

Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou period (771 BC), the royal house, surnamed Ji, had military ...

, which was once circulated alongside the ''

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yijing'' ( ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The ''I Ching'' was originally a divination manual in ...

''. The text of ''Guicang'' was rediscovered in a rural bog in 1993; it had been lost for over two thousand years. ''Guicang'' contains the sixty-four hexagrams and stories relating to each of them. For example, Hexagram 54 of the ''I Ching'', "Returning Maiden," is accompanied by the story of how the maiden

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stole the medicine of immortality from Xi Wangmu and, upon returning home, used the hexagrams to determine that she should flee to the moon.

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I Ching Taoist texts Confucian texts Chinese classic texts Chinese books of divination Chinese folk religion {{taoism-stub