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I ching meanings and symbols5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Numerically the symbols can be counted as ⚊ = 0, ⚋ = 1, □ = 2, and grouped into sets of four to count from 0 to 80. twice broken line ( □) for man ( Chinese: 人 pinyin: rén).once broken line ( ⚋) for earth ( Chinese: 地 pinyin: dì),.the unbroken line ( ⚊) for heaven ( Chinese: 天 pinyin: tiān),.Ī tetragram drawn without moving lines refers to the tetragram description, while a tetragram drawn with moving lines refers to the specific lines. Like the I Ching it may be consulted as an oracle by casting yarrow stalks or a six-faced die to generate numbers which define the lines of a tetragram, which can then be looked up in the text. Whereas the I Ching is based on 64 binary hexagrams (sequences of six horizontal lines each of which may be broken or unbroken), the Taixuanjing employs 81 ternary tetragrams (sequences of four lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice). The Taixuanjing is a divinatory text similar to, and inspired by, the I Ching ( Yijing). During the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang ( Chinese: 范望) salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE (in the decade before the fall of the Western Han dynasty). The text Tài Xuán Jīng ("Canon of Supreme Mystery", Chinese: 太玄經) is a guide for divination composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE). Confucian text, "Canon of Supreme Mystery" Tai Xuan Jing ![]()
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