684 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



the numbers, taken three at a time, with Korean text explanatory of their 

 signiflcance. A reproduction of the lirst section, entitled Tjyek-sdijyem 

 (Chinese, cMh sz' chim) "Throwing Nyout Divination," from a little 

 Korean handbook, Tjik-syeng-pep (Chinese, chik sing fat) " Correct Planet 

 Rule'' is given in fig. 3. The numbers represented by the throws are 

 from "one" to "four" in sixty-four permutations, from which it will be 

 seen that onh'^ three staves are used, layout or "four" is the highest 

 throw, and an explanation is thus given of the name of the game. 



^-C> 





mill ======== = == = = tftw 



mill nsi== = nss= ««« 



mill === = = = = = = iiHii 



iiii'.i II niiiiiiiiiiB !i'"!! 



WW ^^rz — zz=zzz^ ;,'/;;; 



. w\w s=ii= = = = = = mill 



^ Muummamm anil 



-c^c -^ 5= == == s^ c- 



Fig. 4. 



THE SIXTY-FOUK HEXAGRAMS. 



China. 



After Legge. 



The Chinese Book of Divination consists of sixty-four diagrams, 



kwd, composed of combinations of unbroken with broken lines 



, six being taken at a time, and the resulting diagrams being 



known as the sixty-four lewd (fig. 4). Each of these diagrams is desig- 

 nated by a name and accompanied by a short explanatory text. Now 

 the sixty-four hexagrams are regarded as an expansion of the eight 

 trigrams (fig.o), called the 2)dt kwd or eight A;t(7a, formed by combining 

 the same unbroken and broken lines, three at a time. The unbroken 

 lines in the diagram are called yeuw/, " masculine," and the broken 

 lines yam, " feminine." It is apparent that if the two sides of the Ko- 



