Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 11: Peace

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Peace
Earth / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

異體殊患,各有所屬。四鄰孤媼,欲寄我室。王母罵詈,求不可得。

Different bodies, different ailments; each belongs to a different place. The widows of four neighbors wish to lodge in my house. The matriarch scolds and curses; what is sought cannot be had.

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

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