"Book of Changes" the 40th Eight Diagrams Well Water Wind Well Kan Shang Xun Xia
Hexagram structure: Kan Shang Xun X
Hexagram name: Jing hexagram Water Wind Well
Well, the original meaning is a deep pit dug by hand that can produce water. , water wells, expanded into oil wells and mines. It is extended to a building with a shape similar to a well or a patio. Neat, orderly, orderly, orderly. Mine field, market place.
Looking at the natural attributes of the hexagrams, the ridge is above and the sunda is below. The ridge is water and the sunda is deep. It is like digging a well by continuously digging downward into the underground water source to cause water to emerge upward.
The ridge is above the sunda and the sunda is below. The ridge is water and the sunda is wood. Put the wooden barrel into the well and lift the water up. The water under the wooden barrel (the top of the wooden barrel and the bottom of the sunda) is the symbol of the wooden barrel drawing water from the well.
The hexagram image is named Jing Gua, Water Wind Well.
"Book of Changes. Preface Hexagram Biography": "Those who are trapped above will inevitably come down, so they are treated as "wells".
trapped hexagram , Ze water trapped , surface water is lost and dried up, and vegetation suffers from drought and shortage. When water is trapped ( is trapped above ), the roots of plants and trees will go deep into the ground to find underground water sources ( will turn down ). Similarly, when human beings survive in a waterless land ( is trapped above, ), they will also dig wells to draw springs ( will turn down ) to draw groundwater to nourish their daily needs. Hexagram ( so it is called "well" )
" Yi Jing. Miscellaneous Gua Chuan ": "The well is connected, and the trapped encounter is also." ”
It’s like two cities in a mountainous area, each drinking from its own well water and never interacting with each other. In fact, they are connected by the same underground water system and the well water ( wells are connected to ).
But the method is better than There are many difficulties, and when you are poor, you want to change, and when you are in trouble, you will meet ( and when you are trapped, you will meet). It fully reflects the dialectics of things. Gua is the comprehensive relationship between two sides of one body
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