大畜

Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

范子妙材,戮辱傷膚。然後相國,封為應侯。

Fierce fire tempers gold to a deeper red; cold iron endures a thousand hammer-blows to become a sharp blade. A body covered in scars — robes now changed; one morning, made chancellor, standing in the autumn wind.

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

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