Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 17: Following

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

猿墮高木,不踒手足。還歸其室,保我金玉。

The ape falls from a tall tree, yet does not break hand or foot. It returns to its den and keeps safe my gold and jade.

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

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