Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep

Yilin Verse

鴶鵴鳲鳩,專一無尤。君子是則,長受嘉福。

The cuckoo and the turtledove, devoted and without fault. The noble man takes this as his model and long receives fine blessings.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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