As mentioned before, the words about the “Weiji” hexagram in the “Book of Changes”, “Yizhuan” and “Xu Gua Zhuan” are actually different. Since the “Book of Changes” is an important part of the analytical framework adopted in this series of articles, I am going to talk about it a little more this time.
It is said that the “Book of Changes” is the collective creation of the “Three Sages” in the history of Chinese culture – Fu Xi, King Wen of Zhou and Confucius. As mentioned earlier, the Bagua legend was created by Fuxi. It is deduced from the concept of Yin and Yang, and the eight hexagrams of Qian, Kun, Xun, Zhen, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui respectively represent heaven, earth, Eight different phenomena and forces of wind, thunder, water, fire, mountains, and the universe, as well as the dynamic and static states of all natural phenomena between heaven and earth. From the one-word opening of the sky to the amazing wisdom and mystery hidden in the Bagua, it is difficult to describe in words. The best expression today is believed to be from Chapter 42 of Laozi’s “Tao Te Ching” “Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three , three births of all things”, and the end of the first chapter “mysterious and mysterious, the door to all wonders.”
