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QingYang gong temple - Yin and yang and eight taoist trigrams slab

QingYang gong temple - Yin and yang and eight taoist trigrams slab

In the center, the yin and yang. Around it, the 8 Taoist trigrams (including Earth, Heaven, Fire, Water...).
Note : These trigrams placed in pairs give 64 hexagrams also used in "The Book of Changes" (Yi Jing), which could be used to make divination. This book was written in the same period as the invention of the trigrams, i.e. in the Zhou (771-256 B.C.).