Bagua
| 卦名 Name of Trigram | 卦像 Trigram Representation | 自然 Nature | 性情 Emotion | 家族 Family | 方位 Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 乾 | Missing image Ken.png Image:Ken.png | 天 | 健 | 父 | Northwest |
| 兌 | Missing image Da_.png Image:Da_.png | 泽 | 悦 | 少女 | West |
| 離 | Missing image Ri_.png Image:Ri_.png | 火 | 麗 | 中女 | South |
| 震 | Missing image Shin.png Image:Shin.png | 雷 | 動 | 長男 | East |
| 巽 | Missing image Son.png Image:Son.png | 風 | 入 | 長女 | Southeast |
| 坎 | Missing image Kan.png Image:Kan.png | 水 | 陥 | 中男 | North |
| 艮 | Missing image Gon.png Image:Gon.png | 山 | 止 | 少男 | Northeast |
| 坤 | Missing image Kon.png Image:Kon.png | 地 | 順 | 母 | Southwest |
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The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bā guà; Wade-Giles: pa kua; literally "eight trigrams") is a fundamental philosophical concept in ancient China. It is an octagonal diagram with eight trigrams on each side. The concept of bagua is applied not only to Chinese Taoist thought and the I Ching, but it is also used in other area like fengshui, martial art , navigation, etc.
Origin
There are two possible sources of bagua:
- the first is from the traditional Yin and Yang philosophy. As they said, "Taeguk comes from void, four phenomenon comes from Taeguk, Bagua comes from four phenomenon, 64-gua comes from Bagua" (“无极生有极, 有极是太极, 太极生两仪, 即阴阳; 两仪生四象: 即少阳、太阳、少阴、太阴, 四象演八卦, 八八六十四卦”), and they honour Fuxi as the one who first said this philosophy.
- Another philosophy said, "When the world started, there are heaven and earth. The heaven mate with the earth and give birth to everything in the world. The Heaven is Qian-gua, and the Earth is Kuan-gua. For the remaining six-gua, they are their sons and daughters".
See also
- Taiji / Taeguk
- Flag of Korea: the Taeguk Flag
- Flag of Chosun
- bagua zhang: a kind of martial art based on principles derived from bagua.