Important note (in 2018): In the course of the last years, studying the old Chinese diagrams, I have learned that the King Wen sequence might not originate in the Yi-globe in the way, as it was supposed in this article. This is a revised and rewritten version of the previous html text.
In addition to the description of the cosmos, the Yi-globe also resolves two much-discussed questions: Why were the hexagrams arranged in the I Ching in the known specific order? Where did the King Wen's sequence originate? The practitioners can gain a reliable basis for the interpretation of the hexagrams, especially in divination. Thus, all the readers of the I Ching - the adherents of Taoism in the first place - can get new, specific information from here. In this form new light is thrown on the whole I Ching, and its true meaning will be illuminated. The three-dimensional arrangement puts the hexagrams in a new perspective. The whole work is based on the words of the I Ching, and can be verified easily by reading the book. This latent (perhaps secret or purposely hidden, or simply lost or forgotten) cosmic order is fully revealed and reconstructed in this study. This arrangement of the hexagrams perfectly reflects the image of the world: as Chinese people imagined the origin, the make-up, and the operation of the universe sometime before the first millennium BC.
It is a spherical structure constructed from the 64 hexagrams, and as such, in all probability, it represented the Chinese cosmology in the mythical past. The Yi-globe is a relatively new configuration in the history of the I Ching (Yijing, Book of Changes). This belief is the foundation of Chinese philosophy,Īs of all philosophy." (R. A study on the traditional (King Wen's) sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams
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