Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

江河淮海,天之奧府。眾利所聚,賓服饒有。樂我君子。

Yangtze, Yellow River, Huai, and sea — heaven’s great storehouses. Where all profit gathers, guests submit and abundance overflows. How it delights our noble lord.

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

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