損 → 大過

Commentary

Mountain above lake becomes lake above wind — Great Exceeding, where the structure bends under intolerable weight. A fox crossing the river wets its tail; seeking oranges, one gets only bitter trifoliate. The ancestress harbors regret, and Bao She reeks of stale fish. Every line substitutes the desired for the disappointing: wet failure instead of dry crossing, sour citrus instead of sweet, shame instead of satisfaction, stench instead of freshness. The idiom 'seeking oranges, getting thorny citrus' (求橘得枳) is proverbial for transplanted virtue that degenerates in foreign soil. From Decrease to Great Exceeding, the mountain's steady containment gives way to a lake submerging the wind — excess that warps everything it touches. Decrease cannot save what is fundamentally misapplied.