How to read the gossip in the Book of Changes

Reciting can correspond to the "innate eight diagrams": from (stem) up and down, from (Kun) around.

Eight diagrams. The symbol here is a single symbol, which is composed of three symbols arranged from bottom to top. Combining two single hexagrams up and down is one of the 64 hexagrams, which is called hexagrams. Gossip represents China's early philosophical thoughts. Its influence is not only divination and geomantic omen, but also Chinese medicine, martial arts and music. ?

Gossip is said to have been created by Fuxi and later used for divination. In the workshop, the Chinese character "three for peace, but not half a meter" is also used to remember the eight diagrams symbols. Bagua originated from China's ancient thoughts about the formation of the basic universe, the rotation relationship between the earth and the sun, and the combination of agricultural society and life philosophy. The original data source is the Book of Changes in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which contains 64 hexagrams, but no images.

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Judging from the geographical location of other eight diagrams in the Book of Changes, the earthquake divination in the eight diagrams is a dragon totem. In the three-dimensional plan of the earth's surface, the dragon totem is embodied as a huge submarine mountain range spanning the four major ocean systems of the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, connecting the continental plates for tens of thousands of miles. Dragon Totem ranks first in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean between North America and Eurasia.

Earthquake, dragon's foot, it is located at the "Cheng"-shaped mountain knot of the submarine mountains in the middle ridge of India, such as a foot of the dragon totem; Kun, the belly of a cow, is located on the African continent; Kanhe 'er refers to the Arabian Peninsula in the Asian continent; On the seabed between Australia and New Zealand, the four divinatory symbols Li, Pheasant, Kun, Kan, Zhen and Li are all located in the geographical position adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, so that the center of the South Pole is also cross-shaped to form another group of divinatory symbols.

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