Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

五軛四軏,優得饒有;陳力就列,騶虞喜悅。

Five yokes and four axle-bars; abundance and plenty overflow. Exerting one is strength, filling one is rank; the Zou Yu dances with delight.

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

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