colors based on five elements of the yin and yang theory

The book lists the meaning of each combination, which the individual must interpret in order to decide what to do. The Book of Changes has sixty-four possible combinations of trigrams. Looking at the image, man can see that there are 3 circles with symbols, each circle has 4 Yin and 4 Yang and any opposite 2 trigrams have 3 Yin and 3 Yang. Each single line is in fact the symbol of either Yin, either Yang. Each of the areas shows three rows from the center to the outer side.

The center contains the Yin and Yang symbol. These Eight Trigrams are arranged into their opposites, forming an octagon called Bagua - eight (ba) area (gua) - or Pa Kua, connecting two neighboring corners of the octagonal trigram towards the center to form one area (gua). According to Fu Xi, the four elements are Metal, Wood, Water and Fire, which are omnipresent. The Eight Trigrams symbolize the eight natural phenomena: Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wind, Water, Fire, Mountain and River (Lake, Marsh). Ultimate and the Eight Trigrams in Early Heaven Sequence Pa Kua As one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the Yin-Yang symbol so clearly illustrates'. For they are found locked together in every being, every situation. From their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. They struggle with each other for supremacy. Yang is male, dry, hot, the sun, the spring and summer, the bright and the dry land. Authors Martin Palmer and Zhao Xiaomin of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture (ICOREC) explain: 'Yin is female, moist, cold, the moon, the autumn and winter, the shadow and the waters. These opposing forces, which exist in everything found in nature, are not seen as evil and good, but as dark and light, female and male, earth and heaven. Yin is described with two short lines - Yang is described as one continuous line. The two forms Yin and Yang are two complementary and contradictory forces of any phenomena in our universe, the principle of opposite polarity and duality. This is the basic Theory of the Ultimate (the origin of all things and creatures), giving rise to the eight diagrams.

the four phenomena act on the eight trigrams (Pa Kua), eight eights are sixty-four hexagrams.

the two forms Yin and Yang produce four phenomena, named Lesser Yang, Great Yang (Tai Yang - also means the Sun), Lesser Yin, Great Yin (Tai Yin - also means the Moon).

the Absolute (Taiji) produces two forms, named Yin and Yang.

the Limitless (Wuji) produces the delimited and this is the Absolute (Taiji).

Two broken strokes below a solid line showed Mountain two solid strokes below a broken line showed Lake.

Water had one solid middle line between two broken lines Fire, its opposite, had one broken middle line between two solid lines. A broken line below two solid lines signaled Wind and Wood one solid line below two broken lines signaled Storm and Thunder. As opposite he drew three broken lines to represent Earth. First Fu Xi (Fushi) drew three straight lines to represent Heaven.

Colors based on five elements of the yin and yang theory