bagua

The bagua, consisting of eight sets of three lines, broken and unbroken in different combinations, represent natural forces. They are often seen in conjunction with the yin-yang symbol, which represents the female-male principle, and which has been well described by the pottery scholar R.L. Hobson as…

The bagua, consisting of eight sets of three lines, broken and unbroken in different combinations, represent natural forces. They are often seen in conjunction with the yin-yang symbol, which represents the female-male principle and which has been well described by the pottery scholar R.L. Hobson as…

Fu Xi, the legendary founder of the Chinese people, reputedly showed his subjects how to fish, raise domestic animals, and cook. He taught them the rules of marriage and the use of picture symbols. He also made known the bagua, which he first saw…

…other, eight basic trigrams (bagua). Each trigram has a name, a root meaning, and a symbolic meaning. The legendary emperor Fuxi is said to have discovered these trigrams on the back of a tortoise. Wenwang is generally credited with having formed the hexagrams.