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Lo Shu

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The magic square on the turtle’s back — three-by-three counts in Chinese number lore. Not bagua the eight trigrams, and not a digit dump.

Also known as Lo shu

Chinese tradition

  • Lo Shu appears in Chinese tradition.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing materials place the Lo Shu (Lo Writing) among correlative number-diagrams neighboring the classic’s bagua speech. A named Lo-square diagram in that Chinese reception, not a hexagram figure and not the taijitu.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.