Tai Xuan Jing
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The text Tài Xuán Jīng ("Canon of Supreme Mystery", Chinese: 太玄經) was composed by the Confucian writer Yáng Xióng (Chinese: 揚雄/扬雄; pinyin: Yáng Xióng; Wade-Giles: Yang Hsiung; 53 BCE-18 CE). The first draft of this work was completed in 2BCE (in the decade before the fall of the Western Han Dynasty). This text is also known in the West as The Alternative I Ching and The Elemental Changes.
The Tai Xuan Jing symbols [1] represent a primary level of semantic notation in the text and are an extension of the Yì Jīng symbols. The mono-, di- and tetragrams consist of three mongrams:
- unbroken line (⚊) for heaven (Chinese: 天; pinyin: tiān),
- once broken line (⚋) for man (Chinese: 人; pinyin: rén),
- twice broken line (𝌀) for earth (Chinese: 地; pinyin: dì).
