Rì zhōng zé yí; yuè mǎn zé kuī.

日中則移, 月滿則虧。

Lit The sun rises to its zenith and then moves on; the moon waxes to its fullest and then wanes.

Fig Things will naturally go back in the opposite direction when they have reached an extreme. “The pendulum will swing back again.”

Note [Cf. DRC, chap. 13; see also luòcháo zǒng yǒu and rén yǒu qī pín and rì yǒu yīn-qíng above.]

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