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Hexagram Earth over Lake

Hexagram Earth over Lake

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iching-hexagram

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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 Lake (joy).
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.

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chineseichinghexagramtaoistdivination

SVG source

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