大過 → 漸
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 53: Development
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
九二 枯楊生稊。老夫得其女妻。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: A dry poplar sprouts at the root. An older man takes a young wife. Everything furthers.
Line 4
九四 棟隆。吉。有它吝。
Nine in the fourth place means: The ridgepole is braced. Good fortune. If there are ulterior motives, it is humiliating.
Line 6
上六 過涉滅頂。凶。无咎。
Six at the top means: One must go through the water. It goes over one's head. Misfortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
臺駘昧子，明知地理。障澤宣流，封君河水。
Taitai’s wise son; clearly he knows the lay of the land. Damming marshes, directing flow; he is enfeoffed as lord of the river.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind grows into wind above mountain — Development, the gradual progress of a tree on a mountain. Taidai, the son of Meizi, understood the principles of geography. He dammed marshes and channeled their flow, and was enfeoffed as lord of the river. According to the Zuo Zhuan (Duke Zhao, Year 1), Taidai was a descendant of Shao Hao (the Golden Sky clan). He managed the waterways of the Fen and Zhao rivers so skillfully that he was made spirit-lord of the Fen River after death. His descendants — the Shen, Si, Ru, and Huang clans — settled the region. From Great Exceeding to Development, the excess water threatening to drown everything is gradually and methodically channeled. Taidai embodies Development's principle: not fighting the flood but guiding it patiently, step by step, until the marsh becomes productive land.
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