Yixue has eight basic symbol groups composed of the three combinations of yin and yang symbols, called Bagua or Bajing hexagrams. Each hexagram has a name, representing a typical image of the hexagram. So what does the hexagram name of these eight hexagrams mean? Why does the corresponding hexagram have the image expressed by this word? Let’s explain it specifically below.
Today, let’s talk about the first hexagram, Qian hexagram, the hexagram symbol is formed by overlapping three yang lines.
For Yi Gua, we must first understand the order of generation of this triple symbol, that is, when arranged up and down, they are generated one by one from bottom to top, and when arranged left and right, they are generated one by one from right to left. This is different from our usual reading habits, so everyone must know it first. Why does
have this generation order? This is because the hexagram simulates the normal growth order of all things in the world. In other words, all things always grow from bottom to top, with the bottom first and then the top. Second, the celestial body rises east and falls west, and when it faces south and the west corresponds to the right, time appears first. Based on these two basic principles, the order of Yi Gua is defined in this way.
Qian hexagram is a symbol group composed of three yang lines symbols generated from the bottom to the top. When a horizontal line is used to represent yang, the symbol group is the same as the Chinese character number "three".
Question: When facing the south, isn’t the celestial body rising east and falling west first?
Answer: The one on the right comes out first, and the one on the left comes out later. On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, when the sun sets, the sun is on the right and the moon is on the left. Which one came out first? sun. So the right is first and the left is behind.
Qian hexagram is a representative symbol of a large category of images. What specific meanings and objects are included should be inferred by the definition of yin and yang combined with the time and space meaning of the yao position. For example, Qian has the image of air, which is derived from the thin, light, transparent, easy flowing characteristics of Yang and the three lines representing the characteristics of Yang, such as the beginning, inside, outside, up and down, time and space.
Qian characters are as follows. What are the symbols that make up the character Qian? How to understand?
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in the middle of the left side, representing the sun. On the lower left, the Dui hexagram symbol represents the position where the sun has moved to in advance. The upper part of the sun is the head, Zhen Gua , which indicates forward movement, and the entire left half indicates that the sun is constantly moving forward.
The upper right side of the character Qian is the deformed writing of the character Qian, representing the person in a single action.
The lower right curve of the character Qian represents the motion trajectory in the form of a curve. The three characters of the word Qian above
: the running sun, the person in action and the curve movement are all images of the Qian hexagram, so this character can represent the Qian hexagram.
Qian is mainly used as a hexagram name. Because it is yang, yang can also refer to males, it is often used by males. It can also refer to things or concepts that are positive, such as the sky, the sun, the monarch, the trunk or the dry, the northwest.
All purely positive things or concepts are the contents contained in the word Qian or Qian hexagram, and are not limited to the above meanings. This is a truth that those who study Yi need to understand.
