King Wen Sequence

The sequence is primarily an index linking text, chart and commentary. It is not a ranking of favorable outcomes or a sort by yang-line count. Neighbors can have structural pairing and textual continuity, while palace membership, Self/Other and Najia branches require their own rules.

The received Zhouyi order begins Qian, Kun, Zhun and Meng. Its upper section has 30 hexagrams from Qian to Li; the lower has 34 from Xian to Wei Ji. Xu Gua links this order in prose. Sequence numbers locate texts; Najia’s Eight Palaces use a different grouping.

Adjacent entries form 32 pairs, mostly reversing line order, as with Zhun and Meng. Some reversal-symmetric structures pair by complementing every line, such as Qian and Kun. Number 35 locates Jin in the text; its palace classification is Qian-palace Wandering Soul. Keep both identifiers.

Qian is received number 1, but the second member of Qian’s palace is Gou, received number 44—not Kun, number 2. Use the received order to locate Zhouyi texts and the palace sequence to classify Gou as first generation. Neighboring numbers do not establish shared palace membership.

Xu Gua explains the order through meaning and continuity. To check reversal pairing, independently reverse the line order; for complement pairing, flip every polarity. Textual explanation and graphical relationship have different evidence.