Based on first-hand social investigation and historical records,this papergives new explanations to the problems unsolved for a long time in Eight Trigrams stu-dies.

• 本文通过民间深入调查并与文献资料相结合，对八卦教研究中长期难以解决的问题作了钧沉索隐的探析。如对创始人刘佐臣的祖籍及其宗族进行了鲜为人知的论述；