How many hexagrams are there in Zhouyi?

There are sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes.

Zhouyi Ancient Classics is divided into two parts, the first part is thirty, the second part is thirty-four, * * * sixty-four, and each one has six, * * * three hundred and eighty-four.

The eight diagrams symbols are weighted in pairs to form the sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi, 8×8=64. In order to distinguish gossip from sixty-four hexagrams, the ancients called gossip "Jing". Call the sixty-four hexagrams "other hexagrams". Therefore, any two classics can overlap to obtain different divination. Sixty-four hexagrams are composed of eight diagrams. Therefore, from the perspective of divination painting, Yibei hexagrams are composed of two classics: the lower part is called inner divination (also called lower body) and the other part is called outer divination (also called upper body).

Yi Ci, a hexagram and six hexagrams, consists of six symbols, each of which has a meaning, and the expression of this meaning is called Yi Ci. A hexagram has six hexagrams, so * * * has six hexagrams. Under the hexagram, the six hexagrams have the title of "nine" and "six", the yang hexagram is called nine, and the yin hexagram is called six. One hexagram and six hexagrams from bottom to top. If it is yang, it is the ninth day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day and the ninth day. If it is cloudy, it is the sixth day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day and the sixth day.

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The ancients believed that the arrangement of the sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi reflected the process of the emergence, development and change of the world, with Gan Kun as the head, symbolizing that everything in the world started from the Yin and Yang of heaven and earth, as Yang and heaven. Kun is yin and earth. After Gankun comes Tun, Mong, Tun and Mong, which symbolizes that things have just begun and are in the period of Mongolian taste. ..... The scripture is finally moving away from the moon and the sun, which has a bright meaning, symbolizing that everything is vividly presented. ?

Xia Jing began with Xian Heng, symbolizing the people, families and society that emerged after the creation of everything in the world. Xian means sympathy. Refers to sympathy for men and women, sympathy for marriage. Constant, permanent, refers to the husband and wife grow old together. After the formation of society, it was full of contradictions, and finally, it was Gigi. Gigi means success and completion. Poverty means that things are endless and endless. The author of Zhouyi tried to make the arrangement of the sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi conform to the evolution of the world.

But this arrangement is not unique. 1973, The Book of Changes written on silk was found in Mawangdui Han Tomb in the eastern suburb of Changsha City, Hunan Province. The arrangement of the Book of Changes on silk books is completely different from the current Book of Changes. According to the principle of paying equal attention to gossip, it divides the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes into eight groups, which are called eight palaces, and the sixty-four hexagrams belong to eight palaces.

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