Trigram
Thunder
震Chên (Wade-Giles) · zhèn(pinyin)
the arousing, movement — the arousing shock that starts growth.
- Attribute
- the arousing, movement
- Direction
- east
- Season
- spring
- In the family
- the eldest son
- Image
- the arousing shock that starts growth
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 03 Difficulty at the Beginning
- 17 Following
- 21 Biting Through
- 24 Return
- 25 Innocence
- 27 Corners of the Mouth
- 42 Increase
- 51 The Arousing
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Chên in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.