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The history about Fu Xi is mainly legendary and not written history, therefore the question arises : Did Fu Xi actually invent the Trigrams more than 7000 years ago? I believe it is more than possible. There are two important reasons. Firstly, there was already a pretty mature background civilization even in those early days in order for such mature pottery art and technology to be appreciated. Pottery needed to be burnt with a temperature of about 1000 °C for many long hours. Charcoal or coal fire can reach just over 800 °C. Therefore more advanced techniques, such as forced air, were needed to bring up the heat... Secondly, there must have been a powerful leadership that had influenced the early Chinese people to embark upon a practical, in fact quite scientific route of development. Such an influence in a way would resemble that provided by Copernicus in the European Middle Ages, and the momentum of such influence had lasted millenniums in China. That's why the early Chinese history was very sober and practical. So, by the time of late Warring States (say about 250 BC ) not only the compass, the saddle and stirrup, as well as the gun powders were already in use, but also the printing press had just been invented...
Legend has it that as Fu Xi was the joint leader of a community of tribes in early history, he would often look up to observe heavenly phenomena, and then he would investigate earthly changes caused by those phenomena. He would also probe into animals and plants lives, as well as looking for answers in all mysterious workings of nature. He believed that no matter if it was the external phenomena or one’s own internal transformations, they invariably followed some common rules, which regulate the existence of all lives and events. He was determined to find out what the true laws of existence really were. Then one day a strange creature leapt out of the Meng River, which had a dragon head but a body of horse. It had markings on its back that resembled a meaningful pattern, which was later name "He Map" . Fu Xi was immediately inspired by it, and following deep contemplations he devised the first part of I-Ching, namely the 8 Trigrams. The Trigrams were developed into 64 Hexagrams at a much later date....
Both the Trigrams and the Hexagrams are developed from the theory that all things in nature evolve from simple poles. When the energy of poles multiplies or interacts with other elements in nature, the complexity begins, but because of the multiples of poles the complexity remains symmetrical. Consequently a series of symmetries (8 Trigrams and 64 Hexagrams) are explored. Then I-Ching goes on to believe that if and when the mind is well rested, keen and susceptive, then it is possible to predict nature's movements by taping or bugging the extra-sensory vibration existing between man and nature to obtain a Trigram or Hexagram from which a probability may be drawn for interpretation using the philosophy of I-Ching and therefore for decision making.
Therefore, during the epoch of Fu Xi, which lasted over 1200 years, it was not only the dawn of Chinese script language (Trigrams are also scripts), but also the dawn of logical and philosophical development. Both the pictorial language and Fu Xi's influence in search of nature's laws had retained their honest description of nature through the early millenniums. There was simply no room for any supernatural fantasies to sprout, hence there was no worship of God or tales of Godly creation. Although much energies were spent in search of answers for nature's probabilities using I-Ching as means of divination, because amongst the relics unearthed for this epoch more than half of them were actual records of some important divination of the time. In other words, it was fortune telling (predictable upcoming), if you will. But this also led to a very positive as well as sensible influence in the subsequent political development in the early Chinese history, a 5000 years old unbroken chain of DNA, the Yi…
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Legend has it that as Fu Xi was the joint leader of a community of tribes in early history, he would often look up to observe heavenly phenomena, and then he would investigate earthly changes caused by those phenomena. He would also probe into animals and plants lives, as well as looking for answers in all mysterious workings of nature. He believed that no matter if it was the external phenomena or one’s own internal transformations, they invariably followed some common rules, which regulate the existence of all lives and events. He was determined to find out what the true laws of existence really were. Then one day a strange creature leapt out of the Meng River, which had a dragon head but a body of horse. It had markings on its back that resembled a meaningful pattern, which was later name "He Map" . Fu Xi was immediately inspired by it, and following deep contemplations he devised the first part of I-Ching, namely the 8 Trigrams. The Trigrams were developed into 64 Hexagrams at a much later date....
Both the Trigrams and the Hexagrams are developed from the theory that all things in nature evolve from simple poles. When the energy of poles multiplies or interacts with other elements in nature, the complexity begins, but because of the multiples of poles the complexity remains symmetrical. Consequently a series of symmetries (8 Trigrams and 64 Hexagrams) are explored. Then I-Ching goes on to believe that if and when the mind is well rested, keen and susceptive, then it is possible to predict nature's movements by taping or bugging the extra-sensory vibration existing between man and nature to obtain a Trigram or Hexagram from which a probability may be drawn for interpretation using the philosophy of I-Ching and therefore for decision making.
Therefore, during the epoch of Fu Xi, which lasted over 1200 years, it was not only the dawn of Chinese script language (Trigrams are also scripts), but also the dawn of logical and philosophical development. Both the pictorial language and Fu Xi's influence in search of nature's laws had retained their honest description of nature through the early millenniums. There was simply no room for any supernatural fantasies to sprout, hence there was no worship of God or tales of Godly creation. Although much energies were spent in search of answers for nature's probabilities using I-Ching as means of divination, because amongst the relics unearthed for this epoch more than half of them were actual records of some important divination of the time. In other words, it was fortune telling (predictable upcoming), if you will. But this also led to a very positive as well as sensible influence in the subsequent political development in the early Chinese history, a 5000 years old unbroken chain of DNA, the Yi…
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