坎 → 困
Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 47: Oppression
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
→
䷮
困
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater → Water
Yilin Verse
山沒丘浮，陸為水魚，燕雀無巢，民無室廬。
Floodwater over the rooftops — houses drift. Clothes hang from treetops, uncollected. Chickens and dogs crowd onto hilltops fighting for inches of ground — in all four directions, the fields have become islands.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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