The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bā guà; Wade-Giles: pa kua; literally "eight trigrams") is a fundamental philosophical concept in ancient China. It is an octagonal diagram with eight trigrams on each side. The concept of bagua is applied not only to Chinese Taoist thought and the I Ching, but it is also used in other area like fengshui, martial art , navigation, etc. Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... An octagon is a polygon that has eight sides. ... For other uses of the words tao and dao, see Dao (disambiguation). ... Alternative meaning: I Ching (monk) The I Ching (Traditional Chinese: 易經, pinyin y jīng; Cantonese IPA: jɪk6gɪŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping: jik6ging1; alternative romanizations include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ... Fēngshuǐ in the simplified characters standard in PRC. Feng Shui or fengshui (Simplified Chinese: 风水; Traditional Chinese: 風水; pinyin: ; IPA: (  listen)) is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... There are several traditions of navigation. ...

Origin

There are two possible sources of bagua:

1. the first is from the traditional Yin and Yang philosophy. As they said, "Taeguk comes from void, four phenomenon comes from Taeguk, Bagua comes from four phenomenon, 64-gua comes from Bagua" (“无极生有极, 有极是太极, 太极生两仪, 即阴阳; 两仪生四象: 即少阳、太阳、少阴、太阴, 四象演八卦, 八八六十四卦”), and they honour Fuxi as the one who first said this philosophy.
2. Another philosophy said, "When the world started, there are heaven and earth. The heaven mate with the earth and give birth to everything in the world. The Heaven is Qian-gua, and the Earth is Kuan-gua. For the remaining six-gua, they are their sons and daughters".

Taoists Taijitu The concept of yin and yang (Traditional Chinese: 陰陽; Simplified Chinese: 阴阳; pinyin: ) originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the universe. ... The Taiji diagram or Taijitu , 太極圖 of Zhou Dun-yi. ... The absence of matter, a vacuum. ... Fu Hsi (伏羲; pinyin fú xī; Pao-hsi), was the mythical First Emperor of China. ...

See also

• Taiji / Taeguk
• Flag of Korea: the Taeguk Flag
• Flag of Chosun
• bagua zhang: a kind of martial art based on principles derived from bagua.

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External links

• About the bagua (http://www.fengshuipalace.com/bagua.php)
• Bagua diagram (http://www.bartlettdesigns.com/fengshui-baguaoctagon.html)
• Bagua images from Google (http://images.google.com/images?q=bagua&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi)
• The two kinds of Bagua (Chinese) (http://www.divine.com.tw/pbt08-1-3-1-6.htm)