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The Eight Trigrams
The eight trigrams and their main associations: elements in nature, family relations, and directions in the cosmological configurations "prior to Heaven" and "posterior to Heaven" (xiantian and houtian).
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| qian | dui | li | zhen | xun | kan | gen | kun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| heaven | lake | fire | thunder | wind | water | mountain | earth
| father
| youngest daughter
| second daughter
| eldest son
| eldest daughter
| second son
| youngest son
| mother
| south
| southeast
| east
| northeast
| southwest
| west
| northwest
| north
| northwest
| west
| south
| east
| southeast
| north
| northeast
| southwest
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