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Fuxi Discovering the Eight Trigrams

🐉 Chinese MythologyYellow River, Mengjin, ChinaFuxi • Nüwa • Dragon Horse

The culture hero Fuxi discovers the cosmic secrets of the universe by observing the patterns on the back of a mythical Dragon Horse. These patterns form the Eight Trigrams (Bagua), which provide the foundation for the I Ching and Taoist cosmology.