鼎 → 大過

Commentary

Fire over wind fills the cauldron, but the lake submerges the trees in Great Exceeding — the ridgepole bends past its limit. A house built at the mountain's base, chosen for security, collapses overnight when the peak crumbles, smashing the morning and evening meals. The cauldron's daily sustenance — 'yongcan,' the cooked food of a household — is destroyed in an instant. What seemed the safest foundation proves the most dangerous: the mountain that sheltered also crushed. From The Cauldron to Great Exceeding, the transformation captures structural failure under impossible weight. The cauldron overflows; the ridgepole sags. Building at the mountain's root felt prudent, but the mountain's excess mass became the very instrument of ruin.