[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":507},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-ding":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":192},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":177,"date":178,"description":179,"extension":180,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":181,"navigation":182,"order":183,"palaces":6,"path":184,"seo":185,"series":6,"sitemap":186,"star":6,"stem":187,"tags":188,"__hash__":191},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fding.md","I Ching Ding Meaning: Hexagram 50 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":165},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,43,46,50,53,56,59,63,66,69,72,75,79,82,85,88,92,95,98,101,120,124,130,133,138,141,146,149,154,157],[11,12,13],"p",{},"What Ding 鼎 most often has written wrong is not a line text. It is the picture.",[11,15,16],{},"Jia Ren 家人 is Wind over Fire, Xun above Li: wind above, fire below. Ding is Fire over Wind, Li above Xun: fire above, wind-wood below. Both are Xun and Li, only reversed. Reverse them, and the meaning reverses with them. Jia Ren is wind coming out of fire, teaching by words blowing from the house outward. Ding is wood with fire above, used for cooking, founding anew, feeding the worthy. In class I have students memorize these two hexagrams’ above and below first, then talk marriage or opening a shop. Flip them, and you teach ordering a house as cooking a state, or a new regime as cooking dinner for the family.",[11,18,19],{},"Ding is a vessel. The Three Dynasties took the ding as regime, as sacrifice, as a pot that feeds scholars. Draw Ding: the nature of the matter is usually the old has already been Ge-d, and now there must be a new pot, things cooked through, people fed and held.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"why-ge-is-followed-by-ding","Why Ge is followed by Ding",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「革物者莫若鼎，故受之以鼎。」 Nothing changes things like a ding, so Ding follows. What can thoroughly change a thing: nothing is more able than a ding. Ge 革 is removing the old; Ding is cooking the new. Only Ge, no cooking: the ground is full of the raw. Only cooking, no Ge: last night’s filth is still in the pot.",[11,34,27,35,38,39,42],{},[29,36,37],{},"Tuan"," says: 「鼎，象也。以木巽火，亨飪也。」 Ding is an image. Wood, Xun, fire: cooking. Heng-ren 亨飪 is cooking. Wood enters yielding, fire above, and it can be cooked through. The superior person’s homework in the ",[29,40,41],{},"Xiang"," is 「正位凝命」— correct the position, condense the fate. The seat must be correct; fate must be able to condense. Ding does not tell you to be passionate. It tells you to make a new title sit real, to cook through the people who should be fed. The judgment is only four characters: 「元吉，亨」— great fortune, opening. It looks very full. Among the six lines there is the misfortune of spilling stew. Not every line is great fortune.",[11,44,45],{},"Sages cook to offer to the Lord on High, and cook greatly to feed sages and worthies. Ding’s two uses: sacrifice, and feeding people who can get things done. Today it need not be a temple. It can be a company, a studio, a new policy, a new family. The pot you opened: who is it for? Feeding the worthy, or feeding your own face? Ask that, and Ding will not become a display to show off.",[21,47,49],{"id":48},"career-and-wealth-can-you-carry-this-pot","Career and wealth: can you carry this pot?",[11,51,52],{},"Ask about career and draw Ding: it suits founding anew — a new post, a new team, a new brand, a new policy, a new structure of cooperation. After Ge, Ding is putting title and substance on the table together. In wealth, Ding looks like results that can be cooked out: a product, performance, income that can feed people. It is more active than Jing 井. Jing draws; Ding cooks. What Ding fears most: a large pot, very thin feet.",[11,54,55],{},"Nine in the fourth: 「鼎折足，覆公餗，其形渥，凶。」 The ding’s foot breaks, spilling the duke’s thick stew; the form is soaked; unfortunate. The foot broken, public thick porridge poured out, juice all over you: unfortunate. Cannot carry and still forcing the carry: Ding’s clearest great misfortune. Draw nine in the fourth: promotion, taking a family business, guaranteeing for someone, opening three lines at once — first measure the foot. Su 餗 is food for the public, for the many — not your own midnight snack. Overturn it, and what is dirty is public trust, and dirty to your form. The modern image is very straight: a project flipping, a capital chain breaking, becoming a manager and knocking over the team’s meal. Do not save this line with “I can tough it out.” Toughing it out is not a foot. A foot is structure, helpers, a seat where authority and duty match.",[11,57,58],{},"Nine in the second: 「鼎有實，我仇有疾，不我能即，吉。」 The ding has substance; my opponent has illness, cannot come near me; fortunate. Contents in the pot; the rival is ill, cannot approach: fortunate. In career: content first solid. Someone wants to grab, stir; they cannot come near. Cooking the goods well matters more than scolding the enemy away. The initial six: 「鼎顛趾，利出否，得妾以其子，無咎。」 The ding upside down, toes up; beneficial to put out the old; obtaining a concubine through her son; no blame. Tip the ding, pour out the waste: beneficial. At a new start, the old Pi 否 must first be cleared. Obtaining a concubine through her son: the image is a side relationship that instead produces usable succession. Draw the initial six: not necessarily truly taking a concubine. Often: informal hands, a backup, a second plan, that instead help you clear the dirty. A new officer first pouring out slag: this line is useful.",[21,60,62],{"id":61},"ding-in-love-a-new-house-must-be-able-to-cook-not-only-display-photos","Ding in love: a new house must be able to cook, not only display photos",[11,64,65],{},"Ask about love and draw Ding: often after Ge — splitting then joining, marrying again, cooking a relationship from romance into a house that can feed people. Ding is a vessel of founding anew. It suits talking marriage, living together, cooking life through. It is not Wind over Fire, Jia Ren. Jia Ren asks whether inner and outer seats are correct, teaching by words, the house’s order. Ding asks whether this new pot has substance, whether the feet suffice, whom it feeds.",[11,67,68],{},"If you are already together, Ding reminds you whether you have only ritual and no stew. A large wedding banquet, daily no one cooking, no one cooking the days through: the ding is empty. Six in the fifth: 「鼎黃耳金鉉，利貞」— yellow ears, a gold bar; beneficial to persist. The ears are yellow, the lifting bar gold: it can be lifted, it can hear. In a relationship there must be ears: able to hear, able to be lifted onto the right fire. Ears Ge-d, and nine in the third arrives.",[11,70,71],{},"Nine in the third: 「鼎耳革，其行塞，雉膏不食。」 The ding’s ears changed; walking is blocked; pheasant fat not eaten. Ears changed, spoiled; the road blocked; good meat cannot enter the mouth. The communicating ear once changed, however good the conditions cannot enter the mouth. Draw nine in the third: in love, common each saying each, a title there and cannot walk. Repair the ear first, then talk heat. Do not hear pheasant fat not eaten as the other person not good enough. Often the two ears that lift the ding have a problem.",[11,73,74],{},"If you are single and draw Ding, you may enter a relationship that can make a home, work together — or you yourself must found a new vessel of life: an independent household, a new rest, a new self-feeding. Pour out old slag before inviting people to eat. Cleaner than taking last night’s leftovers to a matchmaking.",[21,76,78],{"id":77},"correct-position-condensing-fate-lines-that-separate-can-cook-from-will-flip","Correct position, condensing fate: lines that separate “can cook” from “will flip”",[11,80,81],{},"Six in the fifth in position: yellow ears, gold bar; yielding in the ruler’s place, able to hear, able to be lifted by a gold bar. Draw six in the fifth: it suits being the person who carries the many’s stew well — manager, head cook, matron, project lead. Beneficial to persist: correct, then beneficial. Ears should be yellow, centered and correct. Do not use a private grudge as a handle.",[11,83,84],{},"Upper nine: 「鼎玉鉉，大吉，無不利。」 A jade bar; great fortune, nothing unfavorable. A jade lifting bar, firm and with moisture, at the top. A completed ding: it can be lifted and set down with grace. Draw the upper nine: career and name can arrive, and still remember a ding feeds the worthy, not your own reflection. Nothing unfavorable: because the place is already beyond scrambling, and the bar can still be used clean.",[11,86,87],{},"Read the initial six through the upper nine together: first pour slag, then have substance, ears cannot break, feet cannot break, ears should be yellow, the bar should be jade. Ding’s fortune is in the vessel complete. Ding’s misfortune is in a broken foot spilling stew. In class, whenever someone asks “can I take this seat,” I almost always bring out nine in the fourth for them to match. Liking to take it, being praised into taking it, family forcing you to take it: none of that equals the foot being there.",[21,89,91],{"id":90},"in-class-ding-and-jia-ren-must-be-read-against-each-other","In class, Ding and Jia Ren must be read against each other",[11,93,94],{},"Students ask about marriage, shake Ding, and some are immediately glad: a home will be made. Making a home matches Jia Ren more. Ding can also make a home, and it leans toward a new structure, a new feeding, a new named vessel. Remarriage, a team-style new family, cooking career and home in the same pot: Ding appears more often than Jia Ren. Jia Ren is wind and fire, fire inside, wind outside, the house’s warmth blowing out. Ding is fire above, wood-wind below, fire used to cook things through. One asks whether the house is in order. One asks whether a new vessel can stand.",[11,96,97],{},"Another pairing is Ge. Ge is water and fire unable to bear each other, must change. Ding is after changing, you must cook. Draw Ding while the old has not been Ge-d, and there will be Pi in the pot; the initial six tells you to tip the toes and put out the old. Draw Ge without Ding, and after changing it will be empty. Ask the two together: more complete than only asking “should I change.”",[11,99,100],{},"Correct position, condensing fate: I have students write three lines: what is my seat now, whom do I cook for, who are my feet. If they can write it, Ding is a vessel. If they cannot, Ding is a display. A display looks handsome. One cook, and the foot breaks.",[11,102,103,104,109,110,114,115,119],{},"How Jia Ren orders: ",[105,106,108],"a",{"href":107},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning | Hexagram 37 How to Read: The Family, Marriage and Ordering the House",". How Ge removes the old: ",[105,111,113],{"href":112},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fge","I Ching Ge Meaning | Hexagram 49 How to Read: Revolution, How to Time Change",". 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Reverse the picture, and advice to people is wrong for the whole board.",[11,134,135],{},[127,136,137],{},"If I draw Ding, is opening a shop, a promotion, all fortunate?",[11,139,140],{},"As a whole it leans toward founding anew. You still look at feet and ears. Nine in the fourth, a broken foot, is great misfortune. Nine in the third, ears changed, cannot walk. Opening with substance, helpers, clear ears and eyes: that looks like great fortune. Only passion and a large pot: most easily spill the duke’s stew.",[11,142,143],{},[127,144,145],{},"Spilling the duke’s stew: is that always corruption, always a scandal?",[11,147,148],{},"Old notes do often think toward disgrace, toward punishment. In divination it is more often: a public matter you overturned, soup on you, everyone sees. It can be a case of wrongdoing. It can also be not enough ability knocking over the many’s meal. Measure the foot first, then take the public stew.",[11,150,151],{},[127,152,153],{},"Obtaining a concubine through her son: is that telling people to keep a side household?",[11,155,156],{},"Not teaching you to open a side household. The initial six’s image: an incorrect, side path that instead clears old filth and produces usable succession. Today it is often a backup, an assistant, an informal channel, a second plan. Reading it as encouraging an affair is treating an image as a license. In class I do not allow that use.",[11,158,159,160,164],{},"For an online hexagram, try ",[105,161,163],{"href":162},"\u002Fen\u002Flove\u002Fdivination","free love divination"," and match both birthdays with this reading.",{"title":166,"searchDepth":167,"depth":168,"links":169},"",4,3,[170,172,173,174,175,176],{"id":23,"depth":171,"text":24},2,{"id":48,"depth":171,"text":49},{"id":61,"depth":171,"text":62},{"id":77,"depth":171,"text":78},{"id":90,"depth":171,"text":91},{"id":122,"depth":171,"text":123},"I Ching","2026-08-25","What Ding 鼎 most often has written wrong is not a line text. It is the picture. 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Some people say straight: bad luck.",{},{"path":275,"title":276,"description":277,"meta":278},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguai","I Ching Guai Meaning: Hexagram 43 Explained","Yi 益 added to a point must break. Breaking is Guai 夬. Students drawing Guai easily hear war: cut that person, tear that matter, lay it out tonight.",{},{"path":280,"title":281,"description":282,"meta":283},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguan","I Ching Guan Meaning: Hexagram 20 Explained","Draw Guan 觀 and students often say: I will look again. Those three words, look again, are sometimes right, sometimes hiding.",{},{"path":285,"title":286,"description":287,"meta":288},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguimei","I Ching Gui Mei Meaning: Hexagram 54","Draw Gui Mei 歸妹 and the most dangerous classroom reaction is a smile: Gui Mei, a younger sister is to marry — is that not joy.",{},{"path":290,"title":291,"description":292,"meta":293},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fheng","I Ching Heng Meaning: Hexagram 32 Explained","Draw Heng 恆 and some people exhale: it can last. Some are tense: am I bound dead, cannot change? Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":295,"title":296,"description":297,"meta":298},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fhuan","I Ching Huan Meaning: Hexagram 59 Explained","Huan 渙 is most easily heard as one sentence: it is over, we will scatter. 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Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",{},{"path":358,"title":359,"description":360,"meta":361},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flin","I Ching Lin Meaning: Hexagram 19 Explained","Draw Lin 臨 and students easily hear: a patron has come, opportunity has come, those above will lift me. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":363,"title":364,"description":365,"meta":366},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv","I Ching Lü Meaning: Hexagram 10 Explained","Draw Lü 履 and students often hear two things. One: Lü is shoes, I will go charge. The other: there is a tiger ahead, I will do nothing.",{},{"path":368,"title":369,"description":370,"meta":371},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv_wanderer","I Ching Lü (Wanderer) Meaning: Hexagram 56","Lü (Wanderer) 旅 appears, and a person is usually not on their own kang. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":373,"title":374,"description":375,"meta":376},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":378,"title":379,"description":380,"meta":381},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":383,"title":384,"description":385,"meta":386},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":388,"title":389,"description":390,"meta":391},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":393,"title":394,"description":395,"meta":396},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":398,"title":399,"description":400,"meta":401},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":403,"title":404,"description":405,"meta":406},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":408,"title":409,"description":410,"meta":411},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":413,"title":414,"description":415,"meta":416},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":418,"title":419,"description":420,"meta":421},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":423,"title":424,"description":425,"meta":426},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":428,"title":429,"description":430,"meta":431},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained","Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",{},{"path":433,"title":434,"description":435,"meta":436},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":438,"title":439,"description":440,"meta":441},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":443,"title":444,"description":445,"meta":446},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":448,"title":449,"description":450,"meta":451},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":453,"title":454,"description":455,"meta":456},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":458,"title":459,"description":460,"meta":461},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoxu","I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":463,"title":464,"description":465,"meta":466},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":468,"title":469,"description":470,"meta":471},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":473,"title":474,"description":475,"meta":476},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":478,"title":479,"description":480,"meta":481},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":483,"title":484,"description":485,"meta":486},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":488,"title":489,"description":490,"meta":491},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":493,"title":494,"description":495,"meta":496},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":498,"title":499,"description":500,"meta":501},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":503,"title":504,"description":505,"meta":506},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715768482]