Two bronze-coated metal eight-sided
#dice marked, one in red, one in blue, with the names of the eight
#trigrams of
#Daoism. Also present is a six-sided die marked in
#Chinese characters in both red and blue. By pairing the dice in two colours all 64
#hexagrams of the
#Yijing can be thrown in a modern form of consulting that ancient oracle. The six-sided die is used to select the "moving" line.