Fuxi "Earlier Heaven"
| 卦名 Name |
自然 Nature |
季节 Season |
性情 Personality |
家族 Family |
方位 Direction |
意義 Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 乾 Qián | 天 Sky (Heaven) | Summer | Creative | 父 Father | 南 South | Expansive energy, the sky. For further information, see tiān. |
| 巽 Xùn | 風 Wind | Summer | Gentle | 長女 Eldest Daughter | 西南 Southwest | Gentle penetration, flexibility. |
| 坎 Kǎn | 水 Water | Autumn | Abysmal | 中男 Middle Son | 西 West | Danger, rapid rivers, the abyss, the moon. |
| 艮 Gèn | 山 Mountain | Autumn | Still | 少男 Youngest Son | 西北 Northwest | Stillness, immovability. |
| 坤 Kūn | 地 Earth | Winter | Receptive | 母 Mother | 北 North | Receptive energy, that which yields. For further information, see dì. |
| 震 Zhèn | 雷 Thunder | Winter | Arousing | 長男 Eldest Son | 東北 Northeast | Excitation, revolution, division. |
| 離 Lí | 火 Fire | Spring | Clinging | 中女 Middle Daughter | 東 East | Rapid movement, radiance, the sun. |
| 兌 Duì | 澤 Lake | Spring | Joyous | 少女 Youngest Daughter | 東南 Southeast | Joy, satisfaction, stagnation. |
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Famous quotes containing the words earlier and/or heaven:
“Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“And whether life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)