乾 → 賁
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
Line 2
九二 見龍在田。利見大人。
Nine in the second place means: Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 4
九四 或躍在淵。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Wavering flight over the depths. No blame.
Line 5
九五 飛龍在天。利見大人。
Nine in the fifth place means: Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
室如懸磬，既危且殆；早見之士，依山谷處。
The room is empty as a hanging chime, perilous and precarious. The farsighted man takes refuge in mountain valleys.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
The house is empty as a hanging chime — a proverbial expression from the Zuo Zhuan for a household stripped of everything, so bare that a stone chime could hang inside without obstruction. Perilous and precarious. Yet the far-sighted scholar withdraws to dwell in mountain valleys. From Creative to Grace, fire glows beneath the mountain, adorning it with subtle beauty. The verse captures Bi's paradox: when outward decoration conceals inner emptiness, the wise retreat from artifice to find substance in nature. The mountain valley offers no ornament but solid ground. Grace without substance is a hollow room; true adornment is knowing when to abandon the gilded house for the honest shelter of rock and stream.
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