People familiar with Feng Shui would be able to
interpret numbers expressed in “nine squares”; the basic one
could be expressed as:
|
South
East |
|
South |
|
South West |
|
|
4 |
9 |
2 |
|
|
East |
3 |
5 |
7 |
West |
|
|
8 |
1 |
6 |
|
|
North
East |
|
North |
|
North West |
(It is interesting to note that the sum of
numbers added horizontally, vertically or diagonally all add up
to 15).
The
diagram could be more meaningfully presented in trigram as:
|
South East |
South |
South West |
|
East |
4 [xun]
 |
9 [li]
 |
2
[kun]
 |
West |
|
3
[zhen]
 |
5 |
7
[dui]
 |
|
8
[gen]
 |
1
[kan]
 |
6
[qian]
 |
|
North East |
North |
North West |
This is often seen as the [bagua]

diagram

True to
the [yijing] principles, the positions of the trigrams are time
dependent. An understanding of the sequence of changes forms the
basis of [fengshui] and other studies.