What do 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams mean?

Sixty-four hexagrams: The sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes were created by Xibo Hou Jichang (Zhou Wenwang). He was imprisoned in Zhou Wang for seven years and devoted himself to studying Fuxi gossip in prison. So it is also called "Sixty-four hexagrams of Zhouyi".

Three hundred and eighty-four hexagrams: the word "eight diagrams" means three pictograms, and the eight diagrams overlap each other to form sixty-four hexagrams, each with six hexagrams, 64× 6 = 384,384 hexagrams, which is the origin.

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Sixty-four hexagrams originated from gossip, that is, there are sixty-four hexagrams after gossip. It is considered that two meridians and one hexagram overlap up and down to form sixty-four hexagrams. About the author of Chonggua: In ancient times, there were mainly different views such as Fuxi, Shennong, Yu Xia and Wang Wen. In modern times, some people think that it was made by diviners in Shang Dynasty.

There is also a direct evolution from numbers, that is, there are sixty-four hexagrams before gossip, or sixty-four hexagrams and gossip are produced at the same time. In modern times, symbols engraved with six numbers have been found on Oracle bones unearthed in Sipanmo, Qishan Feng Chu Village and Joo Won?, Shaanxi Province.

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