Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Peace
Earth / Heaven
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

葛藟蒙棘,花不得實;讒佞為政,使恩壅塞。

Kudzu vines smother the thornbush; blossoms bear no fruit. Slanderers govern; benevolence is blocked and choked.

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

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