Grace · Shan Huo Bi
Grace — the ornament that is never allowed to become the substance.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 22 is the ornament laid over the plain — beauty used to make the essential visible, never to hide it. Polish your presentation and your manners, but know that grace is a small matter: what matters is the honest form beneath. When in doubt, choose plainness with a light touch.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Fire (Li) · Fire
- Upper trigram: Mountain (Gen) · Earth
- House: Mountain (Gen) · Earth
- Text in the original Chinese: 山火贲