Trigram
Fire
離Li (Wade-Giles) · lí(pinyin)
the clinging, light-giving — flame, lightning, the sun, all that clings and lights.
- Attribute
- the clinging, light-giving
- Direction
- south
- Season
- midsummer
- In the family
- the middle daughter
- Image
- flame, lightning, the sun, all that clings and lights
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 13 Fellowship with Men
- 22 Grace
- 30 The Clinging, Fire
- 36 Darkening of the light
- 37 The Family
- 49 Revolution
- 55 Abundance
- 63 After Completion
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Li in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.