According
to the Chinese legend, Fu Xi,
the
legendary king who sailed on the Yellow River;
suddenly saw an animal with a
dragon shape-head, and a horse
body (dragon horse) and on its back there
were fifty five black and white
twisted hair circles which
formed
into
five groups of numbers : a group
[1-6] in the North, a group [2-7]
in the South, a group [3-8] in the
East, a group [4-9] in the West,
a group [5-10] in the Central.
Thanks to the pictorial
informations about symbols on
the back
of this
dragon-horse, Fu Xi was enlightened
and realized the whole
universe is yin and yang.
With that enlightenment, he then made two
images as we have known :
Two images no words, no name, no
one
understood. Thousands of
years had gone by, until one
day, the King Wen
accidentally saw the eight
groups of three lines on the
wall of Dũ Lý
prison. From these sources,
King Wen made the Yi Jing, Of
course, Fu Xi already had the
key to unlock these eight groups
of three lines. What a sad
thing! King Wen wrote The Book
of Changes ( The Yi Jing )
but did not write books about
yin-yang or about the
basic principle of the yin-yang combinations. Due to the lack of basic informations, therefore, 64
hexagrams in his YiJing have
become hard to understand for
Readers and Researchers
uncertain of
how to form the trigram.
Truthfully said, Âu Dương Tu,
one of the famous scholars of
China stated that Ho T'u
, Bagua
were not enough to believe.
Because of what Âu Dương Tu
said, I hang the Ho T'u
image on the wall for several
months of research; using my
knowledge of geography,
astronomy, physics, electronics,
mathematics. Finally, I saw what
Fu Xi saw the whole universe is yin and yang. It's
like this :
From the
central out, black and white
piling up. The black represents
for yin, the white represents for
yang. Replace the white by solid
lines (
), change the black by broken
lines (
), the Fu Xi's sixty four
hexagrams appear :
), change the black by broken
lines (
), the Fu Xi's sixty four
hexagrams appear :
