The Joyous (Lake)
The Open Surface
Legge’s 1882 Shuogua associates Dui with harvest decay as well as pleasure; its autumn place includes the taking down of fruit.
James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Introduction, printed pp. 32–33; Appendix V (Shuogua), chapters V, VII–XI, paragraphs 9, 11–14 and 22.
The trigram ☱: one broken line above two unbroken lines, traditionally associated with lake.
More context
Dui has two unbroken lines below a broken top line. The Shuogua gives it pleasure and satisfaction as its quality, with a lake or marsh as its natural image. It also associates the figure with the youngest daughter, mouth and tongue, a sheep and harvest decline. In the seasonal compass arrangement, it belongs to the west and autumn. Legge’s 1882 translation preserves both gladness and decay within that catalogue. Doubling the trigram produces hexagram 58. The text does not derive joy from an imagined opening in an unsealed vessel.
Light
The Shuogua associates Dui with pleasure, satisfaction and the autumn season in which things rejoice.
Shadow
The Shuogua also associates Dui with harvest decline and the removal of hanging fruit, alongside its pleasure and mouth imagery.