Kun and Gen: Repair and Verify the Earth Palace Families
Last updated 10/7/2026
This lesson has a debugging job: repair a corrupted Kun sequence, verify the Gen sequence, and test whether the complete Eight Palaces table contains every hexagram exactly once.
Kun and Gen both carry Earth in the received classification used here. That shared coordinate does not assign a temperament, role, or life pattern to either family.
Prerequisite: know the eight-position construction rule and measure changed lines from the palace head, bottom-up. Your output is a corrected table and an error log another learner can check.
Begin with the Faulty Record
An earlier version of this course displayed:
2, 24, 7, 19, 11, 5, 26, 2
Do not accept a sequence because the table looks orderly. Run two tests:
- Line-operation test: do the members match the required changed-line sets from Kun?
- Partition test: across all eight families, is each number from 1 through 64 used once?
The legacy row fails both tests.
Derive Kun Correctly
Start with doubled Kun, Hexagram 2. Apply the common construction rule.
| Position | Changed lines from Kun | Correct member |
|---|---|---|
| Palace head | none | 2 Kun 坤 |
| 1st generation | 1 | 24 Fu 復 |
| 2nd generation | 1, 2 | 19 Lin 臨 |
| 3rd generation | 1, 2, 3 | 11 Tai 泰 |
| 4th generation | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 34 Da Zhuang 大壯 |
| 5th generation | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 43 Guai 夬 |
| Wandering Soul 遊魂 | 1, 2, 3, 5 | 5 Xu 需 |
| Returning Soul 歸魂 | 5 | 8 Bi 比 |
The verified Kun sequence is therefore:
2, 24, 19, 11, 34, 43, 5, 8
Correction evidence: the received Jing Shi Yi Zhuan catalogue runs through these Kun entries in juan zhong, scan images 56–69, with Xu and Bi in the Wandering and Returning positions. The displayed line patterns and numbered sequence make the correction reproducible by the reader.
Write the Error Log
Compare the old and corrected rows position by position.
| Error type | What the legacy row did | Correction |
|---|---|---|
| Imported member | placed 7 in Kun | 7 belongs to Kan; Kun’s second-generation member is 19 |
| Imported member | placed 26 in Kun | 26 belongs to Gen; Kun’s Wandering member is 5 |
| Duplicate | used 2 as both head and Returning member | Returning member is 8 |
| Omissions | omitted 34, 43, and 8 | restore them at 4th, 5th, and Returning positions |
| Displacement | shifted 19, 11, and 5 after the first generation | restore each to its verified position |
This is the lesson’s contrast case: visual precision is not evidence. A table becomes trustworthy only when its operations and partition can be reproduced.
Verify Gen with the Same Test
Start with doubled Gen, Hexagram 52.
| Position | Changed lines from Gen | Verified member |
|---|---|---|
| Palace head | none | 52 Gen 艮 |
| 1st generation | 1 | 22 Bi 賁 |
| 2nd generation | 1, 2 | 26 Da Chu 大畜 |
| 3rd generation | 1, 2, 3 | 41 Sun 損 |
| 4th generation | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 38 Kui 睽 |
| 5th generation | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 10 Lü 履 |
| Wandering Soul 遊魂 | 1, 2, 3, 5 | 61 Zhong Fu 中孚 |
| Returning Soul 歸魂 | 5 | 53 Jian 漸 |
The verified Gen sequence is:
52, 22, 26, 41, 38, 10, 61, 53
Kun and Gen share the Earth classification and the position operations. Their heads and members remain different.
Run the 64-Member Check
Use this compact audit grid. Cross off every number in a separate 1–64 list as it appears.
| Palace | Eight verified members |
|---|---|
| Qian | 1, 44, 33, 12, 20, 23, 35, 14 |
| Kan | 29, 60, 3, 63, 49, 55, 36, 7 |
| Gen | 52, 22, 26, 41, 38, 10, 61, 53 |
| Zhen | 51, 16, 40, 32, 46, 48, 28, 17 |
| Xun | 57, 9, 37, 42, 25, 21, 27, 18 |
| Li | 30, 56, 50, 64, 4, 59, 6, 13 |
| Kun | 2, 24, 19, 11, 34, 43, 5, 8 |
| Dui | 58, 47, 45, 31, 39, 15, 62, 54 |
Expected result:
- 8 families;
- 8 members in each family;
- 64 entries total;
- 64 distinct numbers;
- no missing number from 1 through 64.
Substitute the legacy Kun row and the audit fails: 2 repeats, while 34, 43, and 8 disappear from the partition; 7 and 26 also appear in two families.
Keep the Textual Images in Their Layer
The received Shuo Gua distinguishes Kun and Gen as trigrams. Chapter 5 gives them different directions; chapter 7 gives them different basic attributes. The palace catalogue assigns Earth to both family heads.
Those statements can sit beside one another without being merged into a fixed psychological or practical rule:
| Observation | What it supports |
|---|---|
| Kun and Gen have different line figures | two different palace heads |
| Kun and Gen receive different Shuo Gua imagery | orientation to the trigrams |
| Kun and Gen both carry Earth here | one shared palace coordinate |
| A member occupies a numbered position | structural classification only |
Final Check
Before leaving the family unit, make sure your worksheet contains:
- the corrected Kun row;
- the verified Gen row;
- all five legacy error types;
- a 64-entry count and 64-distinct result;
- no meaning inferred solely from family element or position.
This completes the five family comparisons. Retain the error log and continue to the Na Jia and Six Relationships transfer sheet, where the UAYA course convention is stated explicitly and kept separate from received-source claims.