大過

Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Development
Wind / Mountain
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

鷹鸇獵食,雉兔困極。逃頭見尾,為害所賊。

Hawks and falcons hunt for food; pheasant and hare are pressed to the limit. Heads dodge but tails are caught; destroyed by the predator's harm.

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

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