Trigram Structure: Heaven above, Heaven below
Explore I Ching Hexagram 1 (䷀ Ch'ien — The Creative (Heaven)): The Judgment, The Great Image, trigram structure (Heaven above, Heaven below), and classical Chinese philosophical commentary.
“The Creative works sublime success, furthering through perseverance.”
Philosophical Context: Classical Zhouyi Oracle Judgment for ䷀ Ch'ien (The Creative (Heaven)), composed of Heaven above, Heaven below.
“The movement of heaven is full of power. Thus the superior person makes themselves strong and untiring.”
Philosophical Context: Confucian Ten Wings (Da Xiang) moral commentary on how the sage embodies The Creative (Heaven).
“In The Creative (Heaven) (Heaven above, Heaven below), the interaction of the two primary trigrams reveals the law of change: when a tendency reaches its extreme, it turns toward its complementary opposite.”
Philosophical Context: Classical Yin-Yang Cosmology of the Book of Changes.