觀 → 頤
Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初六 童觀。小人无咎。君子吝。
Six at the beginning means: Boy like contemplation. For an inferior man, no blame. For a superior man, humiliation.
Line 5
九五 觀我生。君子无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: Contemplation of my life. The superior man is without blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
烏升鵲舉，照流東海。厖降庭堅，為陶叔後；封圻蓼六，履祿綏厚。
Crow rises and magpie soars, their light streaming over the eastern sea. Pang descended and Tingjian arose, becoming the ancestor of the Tao clan; enfeoffed at Liao and Lu, they trod upon ample fortune and bounty.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over earth watches the sun and moon rise in splendor. Crow ascends and magpie soars — the sun-crow and moon-bird — illuminating the eastern sea. Then the verse shifts to genealogy: Pang descends to become Tingjian, ancestor of Tao Shu, whose descendants were enfeoffed at Liao and Liu. Ample emoluments and enduring blessing follow. The passage traces the lineage of Gao Yao, legendary minister of justice, whose descendants received fiefs for generations. Mountain over thunder forms Nourishment, which governs what one takes in and gives out. From Contemplation to Nourishment, celestial radiance nourishes earthly legacy: the rising light sustains a lineage that feeds the state through generations of righteous service.
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