豐 → 大過
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Line 1
初九 遇其配主。雖旬无咎。往有尚。
Nine at the beginning means: When a man meets his destined ruler, They can be together ten days, And it is not a mistake. Going meets with recognition.
Line 2
六二 豐其蔀。日中見斗。往得疑疾。有孚發若。吉。
Six in the second place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. Through going one meets with mistrust and hate. If one rouses him through truth, Good fortune comes.
Line 5
六五 來章。有慶譽吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Lines are coming, Blessing and fame draw near. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雨師娶婦，黃巖季子。成禮既婚，相呼南去。膏潤下土，年歲大有。
The Rain Master takes a bride, the youngest child of Yellow Cliff. Rites completed and wed, they call to each other going south. Rich moisture soaks the earth; the harvest year is bountiful.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire join in Abundance, and the Rain Master takes a bride once more — this time the youngest son of Huangyan. The rites are completed, the marriage sealed, and together they depart southward. Unctuous rain soaks the earth below, yielding a year of great harvest. This verse nearly duplicates 55-8, with 'youngest son' (季子) replacing 'youngest daughter' (季女), suggesting a textual variant or parallel tradition. The divine wedding's agricultural outcome remains the same: sky meets earth through ritual union, producing fertile abundance. From Abundance to Great Exceeding, the lake submerges the trees: the rain's generosity pushes beyond normal limits. Great Exceeding warns that even beneficial excess strains the structure, but here the surplus yields bounty rather than collapse.
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