The beauty of Yi Jing
Quelle: www.biroco.com Examples of reading hexagrams off Shao Yong's Xiantian diagram. The six levels are the six lines. Black is yin or a broken hexagram line, white is yang or a solid line. Hexagram numbers are in the King Wen order, but note that from far left to far right the hexagrams are 0–63 in binary order (i.e., 000000 [all yin] to 111111 [all yang]). See my archive of Chinese diagrams for original Xiantian illustrations, in both rectangular and circular formats. More details on the Xiantian diagram in Yijing hexagram sequences . Out of interest, here's how the Xiantian diagram looks inversed: See also the diagram of the King Wen sequenc e made in the same way.