Meaning of Flag
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Yi (ri)
- Location: Lower left
- Nature: Sun
- Season: Autumn
- Direction: South
- Virtue: Courtesy
- Family: Son
- Element: Fire
- Description: Wisdom
- Known as: The persisting one
- Represents: Represents fire that gives warmth and light, and dawn and early sunlight as the sun rises in the East.
- Meaning: Trigram is closed at the top and bottom, showing that a son must be well grounded in the heavenly and scholarly ways for his coming role as the father of his family. The centerline is open because the son has not yet fathered a child and he so is viewed as incomplete.