否 → 大畜

Commentary

Heaven and earth refuse to mingle as labor continues without end. The original verse reads: service and corvee are never done, and new tasks arise before old ones finish. The women of the Ji and Jiang clans toil ceaselessly, never finding rest. Ji and Jiang are the two great surname groups of the Zhou aristocracy — when even noble wives labor without pause, the entire social order is strained. From Standstill to Great Taming, Pi's stagnation transforms into heaven stored within the mountain — immense potential accumulated but held in place. Yet the verse shows the cost of that accumulation: the mountain that tames heaven does so by bearing crushing weight. Great Taming's 'storing virtue through learning the words and deeds of the past' here becomes a burden that grinds its bearers down.