大過

Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Treading
Heaven / Lake
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

踰江求橘,并得大栗;烹羊食肉,飲酒歌笑。

Crossing the river to seek tangerines; he also finds great chestnuts. Roasting mutton and eating meat; drinking wine, singing, and laughing.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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