Li heads the Fire-classified palace family. This lesson has two tasks: construct its eight verified members and distinguish two relations that are easy to collapse—palace-element grouping and Water/Fire pairing in the received Shuo Gua.

Prerequisite: complete the Kan lesson and retain its precise phrase, unpaired by shared Five-Phase element. Your output is a Li sequence diagram and a two-column source-layer comparison.

State the Structural Record First

In the palace element grouping used here, Li carries Fire and has no second Fire-classified palace. Li still has the same eight structural positions and the same status as every other family.

Start with doubled Li, Hexagram 30, ☲ over ☲. Number lines from the bottom.

PositionChanged lines from LiVerified member
Palace headnone30 Li 離
1st generation156 Lü 旅
2nd generation1, 250 Ding 鼎
3rd generation1, 2, 364 Wei Ji 未濟
4th generation1, 2, 3, 44 Meng 蒙
5th generation1, 2, 3, 4, 559 Huan 渙
Wandering Soul 遊魂1, 2, 3, 56 Song 訟
Returning Soul 歸魂513 Tong Ren 同人

The complete record is:

30, 56, 50, 64, 4, 59, 6, 13

Source boundary: the received Jing Shi Yi Zhuan catalogue records this Li run in juan zhong, scan images 81–94, with Song and Tong Ren in the Wandering and Returning positions. The displayed patterns and numbered sequence provide the reader-facing membership and line-change check. The sequence record does not provide a theory of personal development.

Derive the Two Terminal Members

Example type: exercise. Preserve the line operations even if a hexagram name suggests an interpretation.

Wandering Soul

  1. Start from Hexagram 30.
  2. Change lines 1, 2, 3, and 5.
  3. Keep lines 4 and 6 as they appear in the head.
  4. Confirm Hexagram 6, Song.

Record: Li 30 → [1,2,3,5] → 6.

Returning Soul

  1. Start again from Hexagram 30.
  2. Change line 5 only.
  3. Confirm Hexagram 13, Tong Ren.

Record: Li 30 → [5] → 13.

The labels Wandering Soul and Returning Soul identify received catalogue positions. They do not turn “conflict” or “fellowship” into a required progression for every Li-family reading.

Compare Two Kinds of Pairing

The Kan lesson established the palace-element relation. The received Shuo Gua supplies a different textual relation.

QuestionPalace-element recordShuo Gua chapters 3 and 6
What is being compared?shared Five-Phase elementpaired trigram statements
KanWater; no second Water-classified palaceappears in the Water/Fire pair
LiFire; no second Fire-classified palaceappears in the Water/Fire pair
Correct conclusionKan and Li are each unpaired by shared elementKan and Li can be compared as Water/Fire trigrams in this text
Incorrect conclusionthey form one shared-element palace pairthe text proves a fixed personal opposition

Write both statements in your worksheet:

  1. Kan and Li do not share a palace element.
  2. Water and Fire appear as a textual pair in Shuo Gua chapters 3 and 6.

If one sentence replaces the other, the source layers have been merged.

A Bounded Li Orientation

Chapter 5 of the received Shuo Gua places Li in the south. That is a trigram-text association. It can help identify Li among the eight heads, but it does not make direction, season, visibility, or any bodily correspondence a rule for all eight members.

This page deliberately makes no claim about the word Li meaning two opposed ideas. Such a claim would need a reliable lexicographic source and is unnecessary for constructing the family.

Source-Layer Exercise

Classify each statement as palace record, trigram text, UAYA exercise, or unsupported extension.

  1. Li carries Fire in this palace classification.
  2. The Shuo Gua places Li in the south.
  3. Changing lines 1, 2, 3, and 5 from the Li head produces Hexagram 6.
  4. Every Li-family member marks one necessary stage of awareness or attachment.

Answer key:

  1. Palace record.
  2. Trigram text.
  3. UAYA exercise based on the deterministic construction record.
  4. Unsupported extension; remove it.

Error Review

Check your Li worksheet against four common errors:

  • treating “no shared-element partner” as a separate palace type;
  • confusing Water/Fire textual pairing with shared-element pairing;
  • reading member names as a forced eight-stage story;
  • using an unresolved word-history claim to carry the lesson.

Correct any error in writing. The learner artifact is complete when the sequence and the two pairing relations can be reproduced without added narrative.

Next, finish the family unit by repairing the Kun record and checking all 64 memberships. Continue to the Kun and Gen families.