謙 → 離
Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 謙謙君子。用涉大川。吉。
Six at the beginning means: A superior man modest about his modesty May cross the great water. Good fortune.
Line 4
六四 无不利撝謙。
Six in the fourth place means: Nothing that would not further modesty In movement.
Line 6
上六 鳴謙。利用行師。征邑國。
Six at the top means: Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching To chastise one's own city and one's country.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
羔羊皮革，君子朝服；輔政扶德，以合萬國。
Lambskin is the leather for court robes; the gentleman's morning dress. Assisting governance, supporting virtue; to unite all the realm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth holds the mountain, and the noble one dons his lambskin court robe — the elegant 羔羊 garment praised in the Shijing as symbol of upright officials. He assists the government, upholds virtue, and unites the ten thousand states. The lambskin coat is both literal court dress and moral emblem: its purity and warmth represent the minister who clothes governance in propriety. From Modesty to The Clinging, doubled fire blazes steadily — the great one illuminates the four directions. The verse traces how modest virtue, once robed in proper form, radiates outward as governance that binds diverse states together. The Clinging's fire needs something to adhere to; here it clings to the lambskin's virtue, and that steady flame becomes the light that unifies the realm.
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