ABSTRACT

According to Yang’s technique for constructing the luoshu, illustrated in figure 2.4, yang numbers (the corner elements) were exchanged in arriving at the final results. 2 The magic square that emerges, the luoshu,

is basically yang-perfectly appropriate because it represents Heaven, the ultimate source of yang influence. From the primary configuration given in figure 2.4(b), another magic square could be created by exchanging yin elements. The resulting magic square is a yin square and is related to the Earth. See figure 5.1.