Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 10: Treading

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

同本異葉,樂仁上德;東鄰慕義,來興吾國。

Same root, different leaves; delighting in benevolence and highest virtue. The eastern neighbor admires righteousness and comes to prosper our realm.

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

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