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http://i-tjingcentrum.nl/serendipity/archives/48-Shanghai-Museum-Chujian-Zhouyi.htmlThe MWD manuscript isn't a good example, as its hexagram sequence is trigram-based. But more interestingly, the 'Shanghai Museum' version, from about 300 BC, has its hexagrams drawn with the trigrams somewhat separated.
the Yi at face value, please myself in argumenting to provoke others to share their perspective at best, but still think nothing else man made is as intruiguing...whatever, whoever, whenever of the work's genesis
My definition of "trigrams" is "that which becomes visible when turning a hexagram upside down".The Scale of Eight is represented only by the Ba Gua, the eight three-line
diagrams. Despite the assertions made in the legendary history of the Yi that the Ba
Gua came down from ancient times, to be later combined into the sixty-four Gua,
there is as yet no strong evidence of this either in the early literature or among the
Shang dynasty Oracle or Dragon Bones.
The middle line is therefore originally heaven (III).Since we are about trigrams configuration, lower line Earth, the Yin Mother; Middle line Man, the interpreter of the relationship between Heaven and Earth amongst the 10 000 things and the third line Heaven, Father and Yang.
I think that four trigram names are original corresponding to the original four images of tortoise T-crack degrees, while the four other trigram names are invented later on.It appears unlikely that the sets of meanings and connotations of the Ba Gua were very fully developed at the time the Zhouyi was written. Elemental images such as water, wood and shock will appear in the text where they might be expected.
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