Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

齎貝贖狸,不聽我辭。繫於虎鬚,牽不得來。

Carving the boat to mark where the sword fell — the river has long since flowed on. Dropping a stone into a dry well — no echo returns.

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

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