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Bagua is a profound concept of Chinese Taoist culture. It is a set of metaphysical philosophical symbols composed of three groups of yin and yang. Its profound philosophy explains natural and social phenomena.

In Chinese culture, it is a tool used to deduce the relationship between various things in the world, space and time, just like the "Yin Yang and Five Elements". Each hexagram represents a certain thing.

Qian represents heaven, Kun represents earth, Xun (xùn) represents wind, Zhen represents thunder, Kan represents water, Li represents fire, Gen (gèn) represents mountain, and Dui represents lake.

The Bagua is like eight infinite invisible big bags, which contain everything in the universe. The Bagua are combined into sixty-four hexagrams, which are used to symbolize various natural and human phenomena.

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The legend of the origin of the Bagua:

1. Fuxi painted the Bagua in Guatai Mountain. Later, Fuxi also painted Guatai in Tianshui, Gansu and Henan. Guatai Mountain, also known as the Guahua Platform, is said to be the place where Fuxi began to draw the Bagua by observing astronomy and geography. It is located at the northwest end of Sanyang River and is now under the jurisdiction of Weinan Town, Maiji District.

2. Zhang Zhengxang’s 筮numerology evolved into the Bagua theory in multiple steps: His article "An Interpretation of the Yi Gua in Early Zhou Bronze Inscriptions" studied a number of numeric hexagrams unearthed in the 20th century and believed that there were a large number of 筮 in the first place. The number (numerical hexagram) was later simplified into several zodiac numbers.

During the Warring States Period, these small numbers of specific numerical values ??were simplified into binary odd and even numbers (represented by two numbers, one and six) (only then did the Eight Diagrams become numerical symbols). From the end of the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, they evolved into The abstract binary yin and yang symbol (commonly used by later generations) (only the yin and yang Bagua), the yin and yang philosophy originated very late. This theory is highly contradictory to the records in some ancient books and has great influence.