sitemap . 1. Relations between hexagrams. King Wen's sequence Multiple moving lines The Big Pattern (The Bagua as lay-out map) The structure of a hexagram page 2 (Why do hexagrams look the way they do?) Hexagram Mirrors and Line Reflections The relations and meanings of lines.

The structure of a hexagram, line-correspondences

Fanyao  turn-over line or lines.

I make use of "fan yao", the connection of a changing line with the corresponding line in the relating hexagram. In my website every line has a hyperlink to its fan-yao. E.g. the fan yao of hex.1 line 2 is hex.13 line 2. One is yang and the other yin: turned over, fan in Chinese. Bradford Hatcher coined the term. Just like me, he had noticed the correspondence between many of these two lines.

There are no texts before the 11^th century where the concept of changing lines is mentioned. Their first appearance is in the writings of Ouyang Xiu (1007-72).

In the 4^th century BC, in the Zuo Zhuan, a line of a hexagram is indicated by the hexagram it changes to. Qian zhi dayou is hex.1, line 5, or "Hex.1 its Hex.14". Zhi can mean 'moving to', but probably it means simply 'its', a genitive particle, like qi². In one Zuo Zhuan-story zhi and qi are used alternatively. In the explanation of the oracle they did use the changes in the trigrams though. Water changing to lake etc.

(information from Rutt "Zhouyi").

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