Eight Trigrams
Also known as bagua, trigram, ba gua, eight gua, trigrams, Chinese trigram, Chinese trigrams, Taoist trigram
thumb|250px|Bagua diagram explanation from Zhao Huiqian's , 1370s The bagua () is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as comprising mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 23 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
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21 sectionsContents
- Trigrams
- Relation to other principles
- Tài Jí (太極) Great Axis
- Liǎng Yí (兩儀) Dual Powers
- Sì Xiàng (四像) Four Aspects
- Bā Guà (八卦) Eight Passages
- Wǔxíng (五行) Five Phases
- ''Liùshísì Guà'' (六十四卦) Sixty-Four Hexagrams
- Hexagram lookup table
- [[Fuxi]]'s "Earlier Heaven"
- King Wen's "Later Heaven"
- In feng shui
- Pre-Natal ''Bagua''
- Post-Natal ''Bagua''
- ''Bagua Mirror''
- Western ''bagua''
- ''Bagua'' map
- In Unicode
- Modern usage
- See also
- References
thumb|250px|Bagua diagram explanation from Zhao Huiqian's , 1370s The bagua () is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as comprising mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 23 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
The trigrams are related to the divination practice as described within the I Ching and practiced as part of the Shang and Zhou state religion, as well as with the concepts of taiji and the five elements within traditional Chinese metaphysics. The trigrams have correspondences in astronomy, divination, meditation, astrology, geography, geomancy (feng shui), anatomy, decorative arts, the family, martial arts (particularly tai chi and baguazhang), Chinese medicine and elsewhere.