遯 → 姤
Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
六二 執之用黃牛之革。莫之勝說。
Six in the second place means: he holds him fast with yellow oxhide. No one can tear him loose.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陳媯敬仲，兆興齊姜，乃適營丘，八世大昌。
The exile crosses south, planting bamboo as a fence. Three generations later, a sea of bamboo becomes a garden estate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven above the mountain encounters heaven over wind — Coming to Meet, where yin rises unexpectedly from below. The original verse reads: 'Chen Gui Jingzhong, through the omen, will flourish with the Qi Jiang clan. He settles at Yingqiu, and after eight generations achieves great prosperity.' Chen Jingzhong (Chen Wan) was a minister of the state of Chen who fled to Qi around 672 BC after internal turmoil. A divination predicted that his descendants would replace the ruling Jiang clan of Qi — and indeed, after eight generations, the Tian family (descended from Chen) formally usurped the throne of Qi in 386 BC. From Retreat to Coming to Meet, the exile's withdrawal becomes a seed planted in foreign soil. The wind stirs beneath heaven: what seems like a chance encounter carries within it a dynastic destiny that will unfold across centuries.
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