Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

一指食肉,口無所得。染其鼎鼐,舌饞於腹。

Across the bank, peach blossoms burn red; at the crossing there is no boat, water stretches to the sky. Thinking of plums to quench thirst only deepens the thirst — painting a cake to ease hunger makes the belly burn more.

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

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