剝 → 晉
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Line 4
六四 剝牀以膚。凶。
Six in the fourth place means: The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
Line 6
上九 碩果不食。君子得輿。小人剝廬。
Nine at the top means: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鳧舞鼓翼，嘉樂堯德。虞夏美功，要荒賓服。
Ducks dance and beat their wings, rejoicing in the virtue of Yao. Yu and Xia's splendid achievement; the remote borderlands submit and serve.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth strips away, and fire emerges above the earth — Progress, brightness ascending. Wild ducks dance and beat their wings, celebrating the virtue of Emperor Yao. The achievements of the Yu and Xia eras are praised, and the remotest barbarian tribes submit as guests. The dancing waterfowl recalls the ancient description of animals responding to sage music — when governance is truly virtuous, even nature rejoices. Yao's virtue and the achievements of Yu and the Xia represent the golden age when civilization radiated outward, civilizing the farthest reaches. From Splitting Apart to Progress, the mountain's decay clears the horizon for the sun to rise unobstructed over the earth. The brightness that was once blocked by the mountain now shines freely, and its warmth reaches even the outermost lands.
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