Facts about Fu Xi and the Bagua

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   Arrangement of the eight trigrams attributed to Fu Xi is known as the Early Heaven sequence, contrasting with the Later Heaven sequence attributed to King Wen.

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   Fu Xi is said to have derived the Bagua from the markings on the back of a tortoise that emerged from the Yellow River.

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   In Chinese cosmology, Fu Xi's Bagua trigrams form the foundation of the I Ching, the ancient divination text used for over three thousand years.

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   Each of the eight trigrams in the Bagua consists of three stacked lines, each line being either broken or unbroken, representing yin or yang.

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   The mythological figure Fu Xi is credited in Chinese tradition with creating the eight trigrams, or Bagua, by observing patterns in nature.

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