乾 → 大過
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初九 潛龍勿用。
Nine at the beginning means: Hidden dragon. Do not act.
Line 6
上九 亢龍有悔。
Nine at the top means: Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
桀跖並處，人民愁苦。擁兵荷糧，戰於齊魯。
Jie and Zhi together dwell; the people grieve and suffer. Mustering troops, bearing provisions; war rages in Qi and Lu.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Jie and Zhi dwell together — the tyrant and the bandit sharing the same space — and the people suffer in misery. Armies are raised, grain requisitioned, and war rages between Qi and Lu. King Jie of Xia and Robber Zhi, paired as archetypes of tyranny and brigandage, represent governance and lawlessness collapsing into the same destructive force. From Creative to Great Exceeding, the lake submerges the trees — the ridgepole sags under unbearable weight. When rulers behave like bandits, the structural beam of civilization bends past its limit. Da Guo demands the courage to stand alone; here, no one stands at all — only the oppressed multitude caught between sovereign cruelty and martial chaos.
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