Table 4 The eight patterns of the heaven trigram and the eight patterns of the earth trigram in arranging the sequence of sections of Lu Ban ruler (This table is created by the authors using Adobe Illustrator)
eight trigram | 乾Qian | 坎Kan | 艮Gen | 震Zhen | 巽Xun | 离Li | 坤Kun | 兑Dui |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
the starting number of the trigram in the heaven trigram system | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
the starting number of the trigram in the earth trigram system | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
