What does the Eight Diagrams mean?
According to legend, when Fuxi, our humanistic ancestor, was the tribal chief in Dawenkou, Shandong Province, it was said in the "Xici Biography": "The ancient Baoxi (xī) The king of the clan (wàng, in charge of) the world. He looks up to observe the images in the sky, looks down to observe the laws on the earth, observes the characters of birds and beasts, and is in harmony with the earth. He takes things close to him and takes things far away. The Eight Diagrams are the eight characters of Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li and Dui. Qian (qián) represents heaven, Kun (kūn) represents earth, Xun (xùn) represents wind, Zhen (zhèn) represents thunder, Kan (kǎn) represents water, Li represents fire, Gen (gèn) represents mountain, and Dui represents Ze.
Bagua comes from the "Book of Changes" and was created by Fuxi, the founder of Chinese national humanities. He used it to "make knotted ropes and make nets (use ropes to learn how spiders build webs to make fishing nets)". Bagua is a primitive recording and creative application system.
The Bagua is like eight infinite invisible bags, which contain everything in the universe. The Bagua are combined into sixty-four hexagrams, which are used to symbolize various natural and human phenomena. Due to the numerous people and things in today’s society, Bagua refers to the general term for the eight parts surrounding the palm in Chinese medicine.