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The bagua ( Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
Bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bā guà) literally: eight symbols, eight areas. The octagonal trigram template is a common symbol for the term Bagua. The template has eight (ba) areas (guas), connecting two neighbouring corners of the octagonal trigram towards the centre to form one gua.
Learn about the Bagua system, a Daoist framework that uses eight trigrams to represent the dualities of nature and the world. Explore the connections between Bagua, Yin and Yang, Wuxing, and Chinese Classical Medicine.
A complete bagua form tutorial for competition at the World Wushu Championships (WWC). Taught by Zong Weijie, associate professor in Chinese Wushu at Beijin...
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This video lecture course is an overview of the eight trigrams, or Ba Gua. It is part of a companion course series leading up to the release of my third book...
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- Benebell Wen
The bagua is the energy grid used by Feng Shui practitioners to interpret a living space—a tool to map a home or plot of land that gives us a systematic way of looking at a home’s energy field that is inspired by the natural flow of nature. The traditional energetic shape of the bagua is the octagon with 8 directions, or guas.
The bagua, which literally translates to “eight trigrams,” is a system of Chinese symbols meant to represent the underlying idea that reality is made up of many conflicting forces that reinforce one another. In the bagua trigrams, yin and yang are symbolized by broken and unbroken lines, respectively.
