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Hexagram Earth over Earth
CulturalSeediching-hexagram
Construction note
Six stacked lines — each solid (yang) or broken (yin) — formed by an upper and a lower trigram.
About this symbol
- Meaning
- Earth (the receptive) above Earth (the receptive).
- Culture / origin
- Ancient China (I Ching / Book of Changes)
- Era
- Zhou dynasty onward (c. 1000 BCE)
- Historical context
- The 64 hexagrams are the core of the I Ching, each a pair of trigrams consulted for divination and read as a model of change.
Classical Chinese cosmological notation in the public domain.
Tags
chineseichinghexagramtaoistdivination
SVG source
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