Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation has no changing lines. Both hexagrams are identical.

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Earth
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

桀跖並處,人民愁苦;擁兵荷糧,戰於齊魯。

Beacon fires blaze from watchtower to watchtower; the mountain passes are cut off. Farmers abandon their fields — refugees scatter southward.

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

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