Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

兩人相絆,相與悖戾;心不同爭,訟忷忷然。

Two men entangled together, perverse and contrary toward each other. Hearts at odds, they quarrel; their lawsuit rages furiously.

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

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