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  45. 							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The armillary sphere (hún yí </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">浑仪</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">) in the courtyard of the Ancient Observatory in Beijing is a full sized replica of a sphere produced in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Zhengtong (1439).  The original was moved to the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing in 1931.  </font>
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  116. 					<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Each of the four mountains surrounding the armillary is marked with a symbol from the I Ching, or Book of Changes, (</font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">易经</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Yì Jīng  </font>周易 <font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Zhōu Yì ).  Each of the eight trigrams in the I Ching also stands for a direction.  The mountains stand at the </font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">☰ 乾</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> qián northwest, </font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">☴ 巽</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> xùn southeast,</font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">☶ 艮</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> gèn northeast, </font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">☷ 坤</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> kūn   southwest corners.  The symbol pictured above is </font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">乾山</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Qi</font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">á</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">n Shān or northwest.  It is the symbol for heaven in the I Ching.</font></td>
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  134. 						<td width="15%"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">☰ </font></td>
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  144. 						<td width="15%"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">heaven <br>
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  145. 								Qián</font></td>
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