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Yì Jīng

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Yì Jīng (I Ching; Chinese: 易经, "Classic of Changes", Book of Changes) is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts, detailing a divination system based on 64 hexagrams (guà; 卦), said to have been composed by Fú Xī (Fu Hsi; Chinese: 伏羲), first of the Three Sovereigns (sānhuáng, 三皇) of ancient China.

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Trigrams

Bāguà (八卦) — the eight trigrams
Qián (乾) Duì (兌) Lí (離) Zhèn (震) Xùn (巽) Kǎn (坎) Gèn (艮) Kūn (坤)
Tiān (天) Zé (澤(泽)) Huǒ (火) Léi (雷 ) Fēng (風(风)) Shuǐ (水) Shān (山) Dì (地)
Heaven/Sky Lake/Marsh Fire Thunder Wind Water Mountain Earth

Hexagrams

Yì Jīng hexagrams
1
The Creative Heaven
2
The Receptive Earth
3
Difficulty at the Beginning
4
Youthful Folly
5
Waiting
6
Conflict
7
The Army
8
Holding Together
9
Small Taming
10
Treading (Conduct)
11
Peace
12
Standstill
13
Fellowship
14
Great Possession
15
Modesty
16
Enthusiasm
17
Following
18
Work on the Decayed
19
Approach
20
Contemplation
21
Biting Through
22
Grace
23
Splitting Apart
24
Return
25
Innocence
26
Great Taming
27
Mouth Corners
28
Great Preponderance
29
The Abysmal Water
30
The Clinging Fire
31
Influence
32
Duration
33
Retreat
34
Great Power
35
Progress
36
Darkening of the Light
37
The Family
38
Opposition
39
Obstruction
40
Deliverance
41
Decrease
42
Increase
43
Breakthrough
44
Coming to Meet
45
Gathering Together
46
Pushing Upward
47
Oppression
48
The Well
49
Revolution
50
The Cauldron
51
The Arousing Thunder
52
The Keeping Still Mountain
53
Development
54
The Marrying Maiden
55
Abundance
56
The Wanderer
䷿
57
The Gentle Wind
58
The Joyous Lake
59
Dispersion
60
Limitation
61
Inner Truth
62
Small Preponderance
63
After Completion
64
Before Completion

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