The I Ching (or Yijing) dates back to 1000 BCE. As the Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist religions formed, they adopted the I Ching as a seminal manuscript of moral behavior. It is a book of sixty-four hexagrams that tell stories of how subjects (people) react in different situations. In each story, some subjects deal with things in positive ways while others are not skilled at dealing with life’s problems.