大過

Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

伯虎仲熊,德義淵弘。使布五教,陰陽順序。

Bo Hu and Zhong Xiong, their virtue and righteousness profound and vast. They spread the Five Teachings abroad; yin and yang follow their proper order.

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

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