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APPENDIX III.
THE GREAT APPENDIX. SECTION I.
Chapter I. 1. Heaven is lofty and honourable; earth is low. (Their symbols), Khien and Khwăn, (with their respective meanings), were determined (in accordance with this).
Things low and high appear displayed in a similar relation. The (upper and lower trigrams, and the relative position of individual lines, as) noble and mean, had their places assigned accordingly.
Movement and rest are the regular qualities (of their respective subjects). Hence comes the definite distinction (of the several lines) as the strong and the weak.
(Affairs) are arranged together according to their tendencies, and things are divided according to their classes. Hence were produced (the interpretations in the Yi, concerning) what is good [or lucky] and evil for unlucky].
In the heavens there are the different) figures there completed, and on the earth there are the (different) bodies there formed. (Corresponding to them) Here, the changes and transformations exhibited in the Yi).
2. After this fashion a strong and a weak line were manipulated together (till there were the eight trigrams), and those eight trigrams were added, each to itself and to all the others, (till the sixty-four hexagrams were formed).
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