Chinese charms, sections 3-4

3. ZODIAC CHARMS
4. ZODIAC COMBINED WITH EIGHT TRIGRAMS

3. ZODIAC CHARMS

• 3.1 One symbolic animal, plain reverse
• 3.2 One symbolic animal, pictorial or character reverse
• 3.3 Four symbolic animals
• 3.4 Twelve symbolic Animals without the branches
• 3.5 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, plain
• 3.6 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, animals boxed
• 3.7 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, both boxed
• 3.8 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, ornamental ring between
• 3.9 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, animals circled border
• 3.10 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals, animals circled pattern
• 3.11 Miscellaneous, twelve symbolic animals and other characters

The Twelve Branches and Animals of the duodenary cycle of symbols are:

4. ZODIAC COMBINED WITH EIGHT TRIGRAMS

• 4.1 Twelve symbolic Animals and Eight Trigrams Combined on obverse
• 4.2 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and Symbolical Animals obverse, Eight Trigrams without characters on reverse.
• 4.3 Twelve Terrestrial Branches and symbolic Animals on obverse, Eight Trigrams with characters on reverse.

"The eight trigrams (Pa Kua) of the Book of Changes ( I Ching). This book, one of the Five Classics consists of a set of sixty-four figures known as "trigrams". The trigram is composed of combinations of pairs of eight trigrams each of which represents some power in nature, either active or passive, such as fire, water, thunder, earth, etc. These trigrams are said to have been invented 2000 years and more B.C. by the legendary monarch Fu Hsi, who copied them from the back of a tortoise. Attached to each hexagram are expanatory notes and expository comments. The notes are made in symbolic language which only mystics could understand, but the comments are written in plain language. These comments have lifted the Book of Changes from a primitive book of divination and oracles to an ethical and philosophical importance". [R]
About Pa Kua also look:
http://hawk.hama-med.ac.jp/dbk/china.html
http://www.linksware.com/iching.html
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/hp/ichingdoc.html