Sun / Decrease
above:K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain
below:Tui The Joyous, Lake
The third [six], divided, shows how of three men walking together, the number is diminished by one; and how one, walking, finds his friend.
Paragraph 3 is to my mind full of obscurity. Ku Hsi, adopting the view in Appendix I, says that the lower trigram was originally Khien, three undivided lines, like 'three men walking together', and that the third line, taken away and made to be the topmost line, or the third, in what was originally Khwan, three divided lines, was 'the putting away of one man'; and that then the change of place by 3 and 6, while they continued their proper correlation, was, one going away, and finding his friend. I cannot lay hold of any thread of reason in this.