无妄 → 離
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
六三 无妄之災。或繫之牛。行人之得。邑人之災。
Six in the third place means: Undeserved misfortune. The cow that was tethered by someone Is the wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss.
Line 5
九五 无妄之疾。勿藥有喜。
Nine in the fifth place means: Use no medicine in an illness Incurred through no fault of your own. It will pass of itself.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
重黎祖後，司馬太史。陸氏之災，雕害悲苦。
Zhongli's ancestral line; marshals and grand historians. The calamity of the Lu clan; ruin, harm, and bitter grief.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Zhongli's descendants became the hereditary Grand Historians and Marshals of the court — Sima Qian himself traced his lineage to the fire officer Zhongli in the Shiji's autobiographical postface. The verse then turns dark: the Lu clan suffers calamity, carved and harmed, grieving bitterly. From Innocence to The Clinging, the transformation maps a bloodline from sacred fire-keeping to historiographic martyrdom. Li's doubled fire represents clarity passed down through generations, yet fire also consumes. The clan entrusted with recording truth — a form of ultimate innocence — pays for that fidelity with suffering. Brightness clings to those who bear witness, but so does the danger of illumination.
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