"Dà guò" refers to the meaning embodied in the Dà Guò hexagram. Earlier commentators on the Yi Jing mostly took "dà guò" to mean "a great fault," but on careful examination of the hexagram's imagery and meaning, this reading appears mistaken.
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"Dà guò" refers to the meaning embodied in the Dà Guò hexagram. Earlier commentators on the Yi Jing mostly took "dà guò" to mean "a great fault," but on careful examination of the hexagram's imagery and meaning, this reading appears mistaken. First, looking at the hexagram statement in the Xiàng Zhuàn (Commentary on the Images) of the Dà Guò hexagram in the upper canon of the Zhou Yi (page 257), there is no mention of "a great fault.
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Hexagram 28, Da Guo (Great Exceeding), should be read from the source note first: "Dà guò" refers to the meaning embodied in the Dà Guò hexagram. Earlier commentators on the Yi Jing mostly took "dà guò" to mean "a great fault," but on careful examination of the hexagram's imagery and meaning, this... Yarrow uses it for reflection, not fixed prediction.
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