Feng Shui/Xuan Kong Da Gua/Relationship With Ba Zi And I Ching

The hexagrams (Gua) used in Xuan Kong Da Gua are the same as those of I Ching. In addition, each of these hexagrams are related to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of Ba Zi, as shown in the table below:

Notes:


 * 1) The "H_E" column represents the numbering system used for the Heavenly Stems (H) and the Earthly Branches (E) in Ba Zi
 * 2) The "Elem:Elem" and "Elem:Animal" columns represent the Elements and Animal Signs used in Ba Zi
 * 3) The "R" column is simply a sequential numbering of the rows, with no further significance
 * 4) The "Stem & Branch" column represents the Heavenly Stems and the Earthly Branches in Ba Zi
 * 5) The "Pinyin" column represents the transliteration or pronunciation guide of the Chinese characters
 * 6) The "64 Da Gua" column gives the names of the hexagrams as used in Feng Shui. These names are designed to aid human memory in recalling each Gua. These names contain built-in redundancies (which are basically the names of the top and bottom trigrams) that are absent in the names of the hexagrams as used in I Ching.
 * 7) As there are 64 hexagrams (Gua) and only 60 combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, a one-to-one match is not possible. To obtain a match with the 64 hexagrams, 4 pairs of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are repeated. These four repeated pairs are marked by underlining the "GN" and "Pinyin" values in the above table, namely G1, G27, G31 and G57.

Combined Table
The table below combines the above table with the Sector directions in a Luopan. The acronyms used in the title of the columns are:
 * 1) The "H_E" column represents the numbering system used for the Heavenly Stems (H) and the Earthly Branches (E) in Ba Zi
 * 2) The "R" column is simply a sequential numbering of the rows, with no further significance
 * 3) The "Stem & Branch" column represents the Heavenly Stems and the Earthly Branches in Ba Zi
 * 4) The "Pinyin" column represents the transliteration or pronunciation guide of the Chinese characters
 * 5) The "64 Da Gua" column gives the names of the hexagrams as used in Feng Shui. These names contain both the names of the top and bottom trigrams.
 * 6) "GN" represents the Gua Number of a hexagram
 * 7) "Gua" is the hexagram itself
 * 8) "English" is the translation of the name of the hexagram
 * 9) "CN" is the order (Circular Number) of the hexagram, starting from 0 degrees to 360 degrees, on the concentric circle that lists the hexagrams on the Luopan.
 * 10) "Pinyin" is the transliteration of the Chinese name of the hexagram
 * 11) "SC" is the name of the hexagram in Simplified Chinese
 * 12) "Sector" is the sector, measured in degrees from North in a clockwise direction, where the hexagram is found on the concentric circle that lists the hexagrams on the Luopan
 * 13) "TC" is the name of the hexagram in Traditional Chinese
 * 14) "Binary Rep." is the binary representation of a Gua, where "1" represents a Yang line (an unbroken line) and "0" represents a Yin line (a broken line). A line is called a "Yao" in Chinese.
 * 15) "GR" is the group under which a hexagram belongs. There are a total of eight groups/trigrams. Hexagrams are grouped by their respective lower trigram. These trigrams are also used in the I Ching, where Zhen represents Thunder, Qian represents Heaven, Kun represents Earth, etc.