According to Van Ess, studies of the I Ching in China ceased for a long period of time, and it wasn't until 1973, with the excavation of a manuscript from the third Mawangdui tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province, that they picked up again.
葉翰教授表示，中國大陸的《易經》研究有很長一段時間的停滯，直到 1973 年湖南長沙「馬王堆」三號漢墓的《周易》出土後，才再度掀起熱潮。