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Interpretation of sixty-four hexagrams

The eight diagrams in the Book of Changes are arranged in pairs into sixty-four hexagrams.

The names of the hexagrams are: Gan, Kun, Tun, Meng, Need, Litigation, Teacher, Bi, Small Beast, Shoe, Tai, Wu, Companion, Da, Qian, Yu, Sui, Gu, Qin, Guan, Bite, Ben, Peel, Fu, Innocent, Big Beast, H and so on.

Sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes were created by Xibo Hou Jichang (Zhou Wenwang) after he was imprisoned in Zhou Wang for seven years. In prison, he devoted himself to the study of Fuxi gossip, and deduced it on the basis of it. So it is also called the sixty-four hexagrams of Zhouyi.