number
Eight
The count of the Yijing’s trigrams when doubled into a bagua. A Chinese diagram, not a proof that eight is lucky everywhere.
Also known as bagua
Chinese tradition
Eight is used in Yijing.
The eight trigrams are the Yijing’s elementary figures. Wilhelm’s English made them a Western divinatory furniture; the classic is older and wider than that.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Eight is associated with Chinese tradition.
Bagua diagrams belong to Chinese correlative schemes. Luck-eight in later popular talk is not the classic’s only job.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Daoism
Eight is associated with Daoism.
Later Daoist and popular diagrams use bagua. The Yijing is older and wider than Daoism as a label.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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sources
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.